A platform that provides IT teams with a self-service portal through which they can both control access to and the cost of cloud resource consumption is now available in beta for free from env0. Company CEO Ohad Maislish said that while many organizations have implemented self-service portals to control who can access resources on public […]
Why AWS Cost Optimization Is About More than Saving Money
Why is it important to track and monitor cloud costs? The obvious answer is it helps you save money—and everyone wants to save money. Yet, cost plays a much larger role in your cloud journey. If you think about cost only in terms of how much you are paying and what you are getting in […]
Virtual Instruments Acquires Metricly to Monitor Cloud Costs
Virtual Instruments has acquired Metricly, a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that help organizations to optimize the deployment of cloud application workloads. Tim Van Ash, senior vice president of products at Virtual Instruments, said Metricly employs machine learning algorithms to identify opportunities to improve performance and reduce costs. Those capabilities complement an existing VirtualWisdom […]
FinOps Foundation to Help Rein in Cloud Costs
A new consortium has been formed to promote best practices for controlling cloud computing costs. Announced at the Cloud Economic Summit, the non-profit FinOps Foundation counts among its founding members Atlassian, Autodesk, Cloudability, HERE Technologies, Just Eat and Nationwide. Cloudability co-founder J.R. Storment said the goal is to bring financial accountability to variable cloud spending […]