Tag: finops

  • Platform Engineering 2.0: The Evolution of the AI Era

    The same five-pillar argument as the Platform Engineering 2.0 white paper, but in conversation and with two things the slide deck does not say out loud: that the internal developer platform is becoming an agent developer platform serving dozens of machine consumers per human, and that virtual machines – pushed off the golden path entirely…

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  • The Evolution to Platform Engineering 2.0

    Platform engineering succeeded so completely that the platform most enterprises already run is now the constraint: built for one persona, before AI workloads, autonomous agents and GPU scheduling. The proposed fix is to push security, cost awareness and AI readiness down into the platform as defaults rather than onto developers, which makes infrastructure the strategic…

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  • FinOps Foundation’s FOCUS 1.2 Expands to SaaS, PaaS – Update from FinOps land. Still seems like a lot more people could be doing it.

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  • Broadcom reboots CloudHealth with enhancements to broaden FinOps use – SiliconANGLE –

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  • The new economics of enterprise technology in an AI world – This is a strange collage of IT project success and failure. I think it’s saying that if your IT projects don’t show legible business improvement. They’re considered a failure. // Also, you have to look at an IT project as a big system, not…

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  • The Evolution and Expansion of IT FinOps – Overview of current needs and possibilities in enterprise-y FinOps, I assume.

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  • IBM buys Kubernetes cost control startup Kubecost to expand its FinOps suite – They’ve bought a lot in this category – solution suite’ing. ”IBM said Kubecost’s capabilities will be integrated into an expanding FinOps Suite, enhancing the combined capabilities of Apptio, Cloudability, Instana and Turbonomic to provide what will perhaps be the most comprehensive cost…

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  • How PepsiCo capped cloud overspend – ‘“FinOps is all about evangelization,” Woo said. “This is probably the most difficult side of running a FinOps practice, because when you are a FinOps practitioner you’re trained to do IT work. You may have had a finance background. You weren’t trained to be a mediator or therapist.”’

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  • Are you a backpack only, or a carry on bag with wheels traveler?

    Are you a backpack only, or a carry on bag with wheels traveler?

    Mostly links today. I’ve been traveling this week and preparing and bunch of stuff to publish in the future. Tragic for the desire to publish now, now, now… How I Travel Relative to your interests Maximizing value, controlling cost with cloud FinOps – “Among current users, 56% report that spending on public cloud was significantly…

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  • Maximizing value, controlling cost with cloud FinOps – “Among current users, 56% report that spending on public cloud was significantly over budget (by 30% or more) or somewhat over (by 10%-30%) in 2022, compared with 45% of respondents saying the same in 2021. Multiple factors cause organizations to overshoot their budgets for public cloud services…

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  • Introducing Kubecost Cloud: Now in Open Beta! – – FinOps!

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    FinOps! Five Cost Management Tips for IT Leaders, IDC – Good chart of what people are doing to optimize cloud spend (only n= from Dec 2022, though). Also:”In a recent IDC poll of CIOs, 64% of respondents said they were spending more on the Cloud than they budgeted. Over 50% of CEOs are concerned about…

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