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Why Real-Time Cloud Cost Visibility Is Crucial for Financial Planning
One of the most significant benefits of real-time cloud cost visibility is its ability to accurately predict future spending to better budget and avoid unexpected cloud spending.
How Proper Tagging Directly Impacts Show Back and Chargeback Optimization
If you are looking for stronger cost allocation opportunities, choosing between a show back and chargeback model could bring a whole new level of visibility, forecasting, and reporting.
The Best Answer to Conquering Out-of-Control Cloud Costs
If you are partnered with a cloud provider, implementing FinOps practices in your organization should be an immediate next step. FinOps will be there to enforce your optimization and savings goals.
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...
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
