Articles written by FinOps leaders and practitioners aimed to improve cloud financial management.
We invited the community to join us for a panel discussion on enabling engineers to take action on cloud cost management. It’s the number one challenge identified by our recent State of FinOps 2021 report. The packed session included a panel discussion including FinOps practitioners from a multitude of companies of different size and cloud […]
We’re excited to announce that The FinOps Foundation will be joining forces with the French Cloud FinOps Meetup to better communicate and share FinOps best practices, stories, and know-how to francophone (French-speaking) audiences. While we’ve grown to about 3000+ members strong in dozens of countries, we have plenty of work to do to continue advancing […]
This week we are excited to hear from Peter Shi. Thinking about cloud efficiency, we asked Peter what he thinks about the question “When do cloud savings start to kick in?” Peter was generous to share his view on this from years of experience working with hundreds of organisations. — When asking a room of […]
Based on the #1 challenge identified in the State of FinOps, we are focusing our efforts this coming month on how to enable engineers to take action on cost optimizations. This effort will culminate with a 90-minute member call on March 2nd with more data and a panel discussion. This was also a key topic […]
Today we launched the first version of our survey report! Below is a copy of the press release. Head on over to data.finops.org to see the results. Big growth is ahead for FinOps, the field of cloud financial management, as more companies accelerate their cloud plans, especially amid COVID-19, and struggle to contain and optimize […]
We invited Steve Schechter, the Director, Cloud Services, at Velocity Technology, to talk about the FinOps landscape in Hong Kong. Please enjoy this guest perspective. — As cloud adoption accelerates around the world, FinOps is increasingly recognized as a critical component of successful cloud management. The Asia Pacific region remains a slightly different story; locally […]
We’re kicking off the year with a sneak peek at our findings from the soon-to-launch State of FinOps 2021 report. The report launches on February 3rd, 2021, but we’d like to start chatting about early findings with our community. Last year (seems like so long ago doesn’t it?), we kicked off our State of FinOps […]
FinOps practitioners come from organizations of all sizes and from a variety of roles. This series aims to highlight our community members so we can learn a bit more from their perspectives. Tim Prentice is the Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Air New Zealand, and a member of the FinOps Foundation. We asked Tim a […]
We’re back with the next installment of our Community Member Highlight series. This time we’ll be getting to know Jordi Espasa Clofent, Head of FinOps & Tech Procurements at Letgo. Let’s kick it off with how Jordi describes how he got to this current point in his FinOps career: “I got a sort of a […]
We’re proud to announce the launch of the 2020 State of FinOps survey. Please learn more about the survey, how to take it, and how to share it with other FinOps practitioners. Why are we doing this survey? As the leading community on cloud financial management best practices for companies of all sizes, we commonly […]
To celebrate the launch of the FinOps Foundation’s recent Kubernetes whitepaper, we held a live panel discussion with 5 experts to answer member questions from the 295 participants who joined. Unlike our typical member only calls, this session was open to the public as it was a collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s CloudNativeCon […]
In the three months since we announced our merger with the Linux Foundation, our FinOps practitioner membership of those whose job it is to do cloud financial management has grown from 1,500 to 2,500 people. Today we’re announcing new best practice content, a new self-paced training course, and new vendor members! This month we hired […]
The FinOps Kubernetes SIG (Special Interest Group) recently finished a whitepaper that will launch on November 17 and we’ve invited its authors to have a joint discussion about managing container costs in an upcoming event on November 19, 2020. We’re excited to announce our very first whitepaper by the FinOps Foundation called, FinOps for Kubernetes: […]
We’re trying a new thing here: re-sharing our member newsletter on the blog. It’s full of information that anyone can use and we wanted to bring it outside of our usual email for everyone to enjoy. Hello and happy November, FinOps community! Read on to learn about all the upcoming FinOps-related job openings, industry articles […]
We’re taking a moment to highlight one of our own FinOps Foundation members in a series of interview posts. This series aims to highlight our community members so we can learn a bit more from their perspectives. Arnaud Alcabez is the Director of Cloud Computing Training for Global Knowledge France, a certified AWS instructor, and […]