PodChats for FutureCIO: The what, why, when and how of FinOps

CXOInsights by CXOCIETY · Apr 9, 2023 · 14m

The explosion in cloud computing adoption, including compute, storage, connectivity, has led to some finance leaders asking what are we doing.

Costs of public cloud IaaS and PaaS can quickly get out of control. The spend variability and absence of capacity constraints, coupled with an increased user autonomy, require new cost governance models that organizations do not possess.

Gartner analyst, Lydia Leong comments that there is no reasonable ROI on FinOps (and certainly no sensible business case for building a FinOps team). That said, she cautions that "doesn’t mean that the organization…