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FinOps vs DevOps: Key Differences and What Each Role Requires

Before widespread cloud adoption, the cloud’s major selling point was a reduction in computing costs. Today, however, many organizations find themselves mired in increasingly costly and complex cloud environments, even forcing industry leaders such as Nvidia back toward on-prem setups. The priorities upheld by DevOps throughout the last decade have played a major role in […]

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FinOps for Kubernetes: How to Reduce Costs in K8s Environments

Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is a container orchestration platform built on open-source principles. Offering a hard-hitting combination of container management and load balancing across multiple hosts, software developers are provided a major boon. Intricate deployment tasks can now be automated, accelerating development and release cycles.  As a result, Kubernetes is one of the fastest […]

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Understanding Google’s BigQuery Pricing Changes: Essential Cost Optimization Tips

Recently, Google announced substantial changes to its BigQuery service, which came into effect on July 5, 2023. This blog post is dedicated to helping you understand these modifications and the potential impact they could have on your GCP’s costs, thereby enabling you to make informed decisions during your FinOps journey.  Google BigQuery is an enterprise-level, […]

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The Cost of Cloud Complexity: What is Cloud Spend Management?

Cloud infrastructure comprises vast swathes of interconnected components. Offering unparalleled scalability and resources, businesses have spent the last decade exploring the cloud’s hyper-agile tools – to great innovation. Between 2010 and 2023, the global cloud computing market grew from $24.63 billion to $600 billion; cloud migration has upended industries and, on the surface, shows no […]

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Taming the IT Budget Beast: Latest Innovations in FinOps

Are you on a mission to tame your IT budget? With tools for automatic RI & SP purchases, real-time K8s pod auto-scaling, and advanced storage compression techniques at their disposal, our Cloud Innovation Hunters are in the wild – relentlessly seeking out the best FinOps solutions.  Plus, we’re tackling egress costs in ways you wouldn’t […]

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What is FinOps? The Complete Guide

While cloud-computing supports immense innovation – providing limitless resources in the pursuit of greater output and agility – public cloud end-user spending is projected to reach a staggering $600 billion this year. Hyperscale cloud vendors remain driving forces behind this growth, having proven their salt as highly strategic launchpads for digital transformation. The competition for […]

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FinOps Reinvented: A Glimpse into the 2023 Innovations Reshaping the Industry

2023’s economic situation is looking dire – projections of stagnation and recession flourish, with customer spending all but guaranteed to tighten. Following years of relentless spending increases, cloud infrastructure reigns as one of the single highest enterprise expenses. FinOps is a practice that’s always evolving: this year, it promises to take center-stage. Faced with a […]

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Using FinOps as a Strategic Approach for Business Expansion

FinOps is a strategic framework designed to manage and optimize cloud costs effectively. It’s a transformative approach that brings financial accountability to the forefront of the variable spend model of cloud computing. This model allows businesses to gain a firm grip on their cloud expenses, ensuring that every dollar spent is accounted for and utilized […]

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AWS Data Transfer Cost Optimization: Everything You Need to Know

While AWS services provide a wealth of mission-critical services – storing over 2.2 trillion objects in S3 – many organizations are left floundering in the solution’s complex pricing structures. Spanning transfer types and geographies, data transfer costs can be hugely unpredictable and rapidly get out of hand.  Below, we leverage decades of industry experience to […]

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On-Demand Webinar: FinOps 2023 – Maximize Savings, Accelerate Growth

A spiraling cost problem has emerged among organizations as cloud usage has grown rapidly, coupled with the economic downturn. Join GlobalDots expert engineers in this insightful webinar that unveils the latest innovations and cutting-edge technologies in the realm of FinOps and cloud cost optimization. Discover the key industry trends and best practices that can help […]

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Real-Life Use Case: Automated K8s Optimization Cuts 91% of FinTech Firm’s Cloud Costs

Containers are the foundation of today’s hyper-agile DevOps landscape. Developers can enjoy the reliability of a single environment to run code, with no unexpected hiccups or changes between testing and production. Segmented applications benefit from faster and more efficient delivery, as each functionality evolves via its own isolated lifecycle. As powerful as the foundation that […]

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Is FinOps as a Service Really Worth It?

Firms are battling to regulate their cloud costs and obtain the right return on investment as cloud expansion advances. Besides the financial burden, a rising technological burden can be intimidating. For non-tech-savvy businesses, taking on this responsibility can be overwhelming and difficult to understand. Business owners ask themselves, what do they need? What can they […]