A survey from Vega Cloud found 62% of respondents are more closely monitoring all IT costs, with more than half (52%) more closely evaluating their cloud service provider options. The survey polled 100 vice presidents from organizations with more than 1,000 employees and was published today by Vega Cloud, a provider of a platform for […]
Observability Costs are too Damn High
Today, any business that deploys software faces an obscene amount of expenses. It has to pay for cloud hosting, assuming of course that it’s among the 92% of companies that use the cloud. It needs trustworthy networks to connect its apps to its employees and customers. It probably pays for a suite of cybersecurity software […]
Cloud Management Issues Are Coming to a Head
A survey of 1,300 technology and data executives found that more than a decade after the initial rise of cloud computing, organizations are still struggling to manage these environments. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of NetApp, the survey found 98% of respondents reported their business has been impacted by everything from the increasing complexity […]
IT Teams Need to Do More With Increased Budgets
A survey of 600 C-suite and IT decision-makers published today found the majority of organizations are trying to make increased IT budgets stretch even further as costs rise and the number of workloads deployed continues to increase steadily. Conducted by SoftwareOne Holding AG, a provider of software and IT services, the survey found 93% of […]
Exploring the Emerging Role of FinOps
Cloud overspending is becoming a top-of-mind budget item for the modern CFO. To direct resource utilization in the cloud, some organizations are turning to increased automation and more diligent cloud procurement processes. As part of this momentum, new roles are emerging to oversee cloud financial operations. Amid rising cloud costs, FinOps is emerging as a […]
Three Key Steps To Going Multi-Cloud
Are you considering a multi-cloud strategy for your organization? Getting this sequence of foundational steps right can make a huge difference, both economically and performance-wise. FinOps or a cloud resource optimization solution like Archera, for example, is often brought into the picture after a company has already embarked on a multi-cloud approach and is knee-deep […]
How FinOps Can Optimize Cloud Costs and Drive Innovation
Two mainstays drive most application migration and modernization initiatives. First, organizations are moving workloads to the cloud as an innovation catalyst. Achieving their strategic goals requires the speed, agility, reliability and advanced technical capabilities available to them in a hyperscale cloud. Second, they’re intent on ensuring the return on investment (ROI) through cost optimization, which […]
Understanding and Controlling Cloud Costs
The widescale migration to cloud and the embracement of cloud-native application architectures has been a blessing to developers and those responsible for deploying and maintaining modern applications. Container-based apps allow fast changes compared to monolithic apps. And cloud services let DevOps teams quickly launch instances and acquire resources for all stages of their work. The […]
FinOps 101: Demystifying Cloud Financial Operations for DevOps
In an ideal world, all organizations would have a dedicated FinOps team—or at least a single specialist who could work to ensure that the cloud was operating in a financially savvy way. Of course, in reality, most organizations are strapped for skills and are operating lean teams where responsibilities are spread thickly across employees. In […]
How to Avoid the Most Common Online Service Costs
Throughout the last year and a half, most organizations were forced to either create or develop their online service offerings at a rapid pace. Companies had to find alternate solutions to continue day-to-day operations in the transition to remote-first. Low development costs and the wide range of use cases have been primary factors in the […]