How to Avoid Overspending on the Cloud Using Finops
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Spend optimization is the number one cloud priority for enterprises, according to Flexera's 2022 State of the Cloud Report. Moving more workloads to the cloud comes next.
How can companies balance these two competing goals?
The answer is finops, a cloud-based financial management practice that brings together IT, finance, engineering, product developers, IT asset management (ITAM), management, and others to align with cloud usage and spending goals.
Finops is a relatively new term, but the concept is gaining momentum. This is evidenced by the emergence of the Finops Foundation, an organization that advances finops best practices through standards and education. His latest research, published in June 2022 at Finops X, the community's largest conference, found that organizations across all major industries, including Global 2000 companies, have established finops teams. p> Event
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register herePracticing finops allows businesses to have the best of both worlds: agile workflows that support rapid innovation without overpaying for cloud usage. However, to successfully deploy finops, you need to create a culture of accountability within your organization, starting with clear communication.
Competing priorities make it difficult to manage cloud costsMoving to the cloud introduces new expense complexities, and traditional IT executives aren't set up to handle them. For example, engineers and developers can purchase cloud resources without going through an approval process. This configuration allows for flexibility and agility (both of which are essential in a rapidly changing environment), but incurs increased cloud costs.
IT managers often try to establish cloud center of excellence guidelines in response. However, these best practices often clash with engineers' personal Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), which they must meet to earn bonuses and promotions.
Your IT department may have identified the need to reduce availability. Someone in IT finance asks engineers and developers to shut down the server for a particular workload and move it somewhere else. However, engineers want to avoid falling behind on projects that impact their performance ratings, so cost-cutting efforts are abandoned.
Changing this dynamic requires organization-wide communication and goal setting, and it has to start at the top. IT finance teams struggle to make improvements when leaders haven't aligned with finops priorities, leading to friction between departments.
On the other hand, when the C suite adopts a cloud strategy without ensuring buy-in from across the organization, your organization may encounter resentment and resistance from teams.
5 strategies for deploying finops in your organizationWhen first implementing finops, don't run before you walk. This is a long-term process, so set yourself up for success by ensuring stakeholders communicate their priorities and align on goals before moving forward.
Finops is basically...
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Spend optimization is the number one cloud priority for enterprises, according to Flexera's 2022 State of the Cloud Report. Moving more workloads to the cloud comes next.
How can companies balance these two competing goals?
The answer is finops, a cloud-based financial management practice that brings together IT, finance, engineering, product developers, IT asset management (ITAM), management, and others to align with cloud usage and spending goals.
Finops is a relatively new term, but the concept is gaining momentum. This is evidenced by the emergence of the Finops Foundation, an organization that advances finops best practices through standards and education. His latest research, published in June 2022 at Finops X, the community's largest conference, found that organizations across all major industries, including Global 2000 companies, have established finops teams. p> Event
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MetaBeat will bring together thought leaders to advise on how metaverse technology will transform the way all industries communicate and do business on October 4 in San Francisco, CA.
register herePracticing finops allows businesses to have the best of both worlds: agile workflows that support rapid innovation without overpaying for cloud usage. However, to successfully deploy finops, you need to create a culture of accountability within your organization, starting with clear communication.
Competing priorities make it difficult to manage cloud costsMoving to the cloud introduces new expense complexities, and traditional IT executives aren't set up to handle them. For example, engineers and developers can purchase cloud resources without going through an approval process. This configuration allows for flexibility and agility (both of which are essential in a rapidly changing environment), but incurs increased cloud costs.
IT managers often try to establish cloud center of excellence guidelines in response. However, these best practices often clash with engineers' personal Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), which they must meet to earn bonuses and promotions.
Your IT department may have identified the need to reduce availability. Someone in IT finance asks engineers and developers to shut down the server for a particular workload and move it somewhere else. However, engineers want to avoid falling behind on projects that impact their performance ratings, so cost-cutting efforts are abandoned.
Changing this dynamic requires organization-wide communication and goal setting, and it has to start at the top. IT finance teams struggle to make improvements when leaders haven't aligned with finops priorities, leading to friction between departments.
On the other hand, when the C suite adopts a cloud strategy without ensuring buy-in from across the organization, your organization may encounter resentment and resistance from teams.
5 strategies for deploying finops in your organizationWhen first implementing finops, don't run before you walk. This is a long-term process, so set yourself up for success by ensuring stakeholders communicate their priorities and align on goals before moving forward.
Finops is basically...
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