Author: Sergio Molina is Head of Cloud – FinOps at Santander UK and an ITAM Forum Ambassador (FinOps)
FinOps is a recent function and the natural response to addressing the challenge of understanding the true costs associated with Cloud Technology. Cloud FinOps really stands for Financial Management and DevOps. We define Cloud FinOps as a set of practices that combine financial management and technical expertise to optimize cloud spending and align investments with business goals.
Speed is the key distinction between operating and building products in cloud technology, as opposed to the server-based and on-premises computing paradigm. Speed encompasses availability, deployment, acceleration and product growth, which inherently results in rapid cost fluctuations. And the main reason why the speed is different, is that you are not buying infrastructure or ‘objects’ to place within your organization’s Data Centre. You are buying the time of the technology element, the capacity.
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