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Data protection is paramount for any business and enterprise leader. How to ensure your data is fully protected to give stakeholders peace of mind often seems daunting, yet necessary. With the right tools in place, any business can properly secure its data to make sure it is never compromised. Enlisting an appropriate and thought-out strategy for data protection is particularly prudent when a business is utilizing the cloud and various cloud [...]

Despite the fact that FinOps is a relatively new approach to cloud management there is a wide range of FinOps adopters among SMB and enterprise companies. All of them have started their journey with an aim to get the most out of cloud adoption. Big names among FinOps adopters You can easily recognize such big names among FinOps adopters: Airbnb, PayPal, Starbucks, The New Your Times, Twitter, Yelp, Shopify, Atlassian, [...]

Mismanaged cloud estate is a common problem business leaders are facing on a daily basis. Analyzing your cloud performance and cloud price structure can be tedious. Additionally, getting a true understanding of how your cloud operates each month and how you’re allocating or mismanaging cloud spends can be cumbersome. Yet in order to identify wasted spends and optimize the process, this full understanding and transparency to your cloud spending is [...]

What is FinOps Cloud Financial Management, or FinOps, is the operating model for cloud solutions. It combines tools, processes and best practices that enable an organization to better understand, manage and optimize its cloud usage and spending. In addition, cloud financial management fosters collaboration between management, IT, development, finance and procurement departments. Change of approach to technology consumption with FinOps adoption Until recent years a certain modus operandi was elaborated [...]

What is FinOps FinOps is a relatively new concept in a cloud computing area. It’s actively developing and being implemented to help companies adopt a cloud environment in a smart, secure and transparent way. FinOps brings together the ideas of engineering teams and financial departments to establish a transparent and defined process, when private or public clouds of different cloud providers in multiple locations are used optimally and consider cost, [...]

Problem description: 'Stopped' and 'deallocated' states of an inactive VM In clouds your VMs are temporarily leasing a part of the compute power of the hypervisor costs, and you pay money for that. It is obvious that you pay for them when your VM is powered on, but there are some cases where your VM may still consume money for сompute even if it is turned off. The most annoying [...]