How to control cloud costs more effectively with FinOps

FinOps: It’s how to bring cloud costs under control

As cloud matures, managing cloud costs has become a top priority for many organizations. That’s where the new discipline of FinOps, or financial operations, can help. The goal of FinOps is to help companies manage and maintain accountability for cloud usage and costs. In this Knowledge Short podcast, David Linthicum explains what FinOps is, how it can help companies control cloud costs better, and how culture change and automation play a key role in FinOps implementation.

FinOps is related to cloud financial management, and, ultimately, we look at it as a collection of best practices, of tooling, and of technology patterns, and models.

As the chief cloud strategy officer, David Linthicum is responsible for building innovative technologies that help clients operate more efficiently while delivering strategies that enable them to disrupt their markets.

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