The use of cloud applications has grown to a point where few, if any, businesses can operate without them. Apps enable people to connect, create, save money and time, and generally power key engines ...

IT leaders viewing cloud optimization through the lens of cost are giving the topic short shrift. Cloud optimization is also about deliberate workload placement. Viewing cloud optimization solely ...

As enterprises move to hyperscale cloud platforms, they often face the challenge of ensuring the high availability of their applications and data while controlling the cost. One common approach is to ...

Cloud FinOps Market Size by Application (Cost Management & Optimization, Budgeting & Forecasting, Cost Allocation & ...

Public cloud has skyrocketed to become the indisputable go-to destination for new IT workloads, especially for data. And while the cloud is full of advantages over on-premises data platforms, cost ...

Startup CloudZero Inc. has raised $56 million from investors to enhance its namesake software platform, which helps enterprises lower their cloud expenses. The company announced the Series C round on ...

Cloud computing, when first introduced, relied on off-the-shelf components: hardware and software designed to support on-premises data centers, not shared resources in the cloud. Today, however, ...

This year, 89% of organizations are using multiple cloud services for their IT, and 73% are using hybrid cloud, a combination of both cloud-based and on-premises IT, according to Flexera. Many ...

We’ve known for years that application portability between public cloud providers is not easy or cheap. Here are a few approaches to try instead. Cloud portability once seemed like a groundbreaking ...

Over the last few years, cloud computing has grown more expensive than ever. Initially drawn to the promise of cutting costs on infrastructure spend, companies far and wide flocked to behemoths like ...

Acquiring cloud infrastructure is easy, but controlling cost and usage is hard. Here’s how open-source project Cloud Custodian flipped the script with policy as code. Kapil Thangavelu says he probably ...