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Imagine boosting developer productivity by 30% while slashing project costs by 25%. That might sound impossible, yet it’s a realistic goal for organizations that adopt FinOps (Financial Operations) – ...

The practice of monitoring and reporting on cloud expenses likely became part of every team’s to-do list when public cloud services exploded and more companies migrated their applications. Soon after, ...

FinOps, meaning the practice of managing cloud costs, has been around for years. Yet it continues to evolve in response to emerging challenges in the realm of cloud spending. If you want to stay at ...

Cloud uses for business continue to grow. By 2024, Gartner predicts, more than 45 percent of “IT spending on system infrastructure, infrastructure software, application software and business process ...

Cloud technology, which forms a considerable and ever-growing part of global IT efforts, plays a pivotal role in shaping an organization’s cost-reduction opportunities, efficiency initiatives, and ...

"When cloud, SaaS and AI are left unchecked, innovation can become a blank-check liability," said Chris Ortbals, Chief Product Officer at Tangoe and Governing Board member of the FinOps Foundation.

Let’s take a realistic look at the effectiveness of finops. Great potential is often wasted because the finance team isn’t working with the engineers. As cloud spending continues to climb, the ...

SAN DIEGO, June 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The FinOps Foundation, a project of the Linux Foundation dedicated to advancing FinOps practitioners, today announced at the annual FinOps X conference the ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. I recently got a call from my IT department asking why I was driving a significant amount of ...

Having established its bona fides as a key methodology for cost control and workload optimization of public cloud services, FinOps is expanding into optimizing outcomes for private cloud, SaaS, ...

Blending finance and cloud operations, FinOps is a business discipline and set of best practices for optimizing enterprise cloud spend. With the cloud becoming such an integral part of the IT ...