Tag: #FinOps

How to optimize your Google Cloud consumption with self-managed tools from Pythian

Blog 6: How to optimize your Google Cloud consumption with self-managed tools from Pythian

Migrating workloads to the cloud allows for scalability, elasticity and agility that can help businesses push out new products, streamline supply chain costs and even reach new markets. But the shift from a fixed price to a variable utility-style usage…

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How free funds can help you go further with Google Cloud

Blog 5: How free funds can help you go further with Google Cloud

Google Cloud is changing what’s possible in the cloud with advanced technologies like analytics and machine learning capabilities. That means cloud migrations are no longer just about lifting and shifting workloads to the cloud, but about fundamentally transforming the way…

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How FinOps Procurement and Optimization Strategies Can Create Value for Your Organization

This is the final in a series of three articles on the importance and characteristics of FinOps for managing cloud spend, its business justifications and what it all means for your organization. Click to read the first or second posts. …

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Why FinOps Is Essential for Cloud Strategy Planning

This is the second in a series of three articles on the importance and characteristics of FinOps for managing cloud spend, its business justifications and what it all means for your organization. Read the first post here.  The pandemic spurred…

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What Is FinOps? Part One: A Crash Course in Cloud Cost Optimization

FinOps is also known as cloud cost optimization. Today we discuss the importance and characteristics of managing cloud spend along with its business justifications and implications for your organization. This is the first of three posts in a series. Along…

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Cloud Cost Management and Optimization at Pythian: An Introduction

The shift to the cloud as “the new normal” has materially changed not just the technical, but also the financial landscape of computing. Centralized purchasing and price/volume negotiations have given way to ad hoc purchases of cloud resources throughout the…

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