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Three Ways Your Security Is at Risk Without Proper Tagging
The best way to improve the security within your cloud environment is to understand what assets you are utilizing and responsible for. Without this knowledge, you have no idea what you need to be protecting. So, the best way to properly track, monitor, and organize...
Signs You Should Adopt FinOps Practices Into Your Business
If you want to save money, properly optimize your resources, and be prepared for the future, you must have FinOps.
How to Help Engineering and Finance See Eye-to-Eye on FinOps
It is going to consist of representatives from almost every department, along with the leaders of your organization, all there to ensure that the FinOps practices implemented are aligned with the company’s goals.
What to Do When You Find Unused Resources
Unused resources can occur because of software updates, cloud migrations, system changes, or simply long-term cloud use.
Who Should Be Involved in Your FinOps Team?
Incorporating FinOps practices into your business is a collaborative effort, meaning leaders and people from every department will be involved and united under one main goal. If you want to have a successful FinOps implementation, you need to consider it less as a...
Five Cloud Cost Mistakes You Could Be Making
Utilization of public cloud resources by your business requires a different mindset than managing those same resources in your own data center. When you introduce cloud computing with a consumption-based cost model, it brings a need for visibility and monitoring of...
An Easy Guide to Rightsizing
As you transition to the cloud, you are likely to focus on performance and speed. However, those two things can get expensive if you do not take the proper procedures to implement them into your business. Adjustments will need to be made, and you will need to find a...
The First Steps to Tag Management
When you utilize a public cloud service, tagging is a critical aspect of cost management and optimization. While there should be a process of finding a tag manager that suits your needs and allows you to process data across all your cloud services, the steps you take...
Three FinOps KPIs That Will Improve Your Margins
Implementing FinOps is one thing, but implementing KPI goals can ensure your whole company is on the same page regarding financial goals and performance. Each KPI should not be a general goal; it should be specified to one team or individual, ensuring that it is on...
Five Cloud Computing Statistics for 2023
As this year comes to a close, it is time to take a closer look at the cloud computing statistics that have helped shape industries and businesses to see where we have been and where we are heading in the future. It is amazing to see just how far cloud computing has...
Cloud Cost Optimization: the FinOps Way vs. the Old Way
There was a time when cloud cost optimization was not a thought in business’s minds. It was a dark time of overspending and improper utilization. However, over the years, times have changed, new technologies have come out, and new resources have been introduced to...
Common Ways to Allocate Cloud Spend
The cloud has become commonplace for almost every business in 2023, and this is because of its flexibility to any industry and workload set in front of it. Utilizing the cloud allows companies to access cloud resources on demand while also automating the increase or...
Our Case Studies
Educational Institution
Annual Savings $2M+ on $3.4M spend
Primary Changes:
- Scheduled all resources
- Rightsizing
- Updating lifecycle policies
- Institute spot and reserved instances
Time to Savings – less than 6 months
1.1 Million invoice line items
18 Million data points each month
2,400 recommended actions to achieve savings
Biotech Company
Annual Savings $3M+ on $5.5M spend
Primary Changes:
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Rightsizing
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Platform migration
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Reduction in Storage volume
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Custom savings plan strategy
Time to Savings – less than 6 months
1.7 Million invoice line items
661 Million data points each month
4,200 recommended actions to achieve savings
Geological Survey Company
Annual Savings $700K+
Primary Changes:
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Rightsizing Compute and Storage
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Workspace optimization
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Reserved Instance strategy
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Correctly shutting down unused resources
Time to Savings – less than 60 days
86K invoice line items
38 Million data points each month
216 recommended actions to achieve savings
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