Optimize your cloud costs starting now

What you can do—starting right now—to optimize your cloud costs

Who doesn’t want more value from their cloud investments? In this Knowledge Short, David Linthicum discuses how organizations can increase their cloud value by optimizing their cloud costs. It starts by assessing the cloud infrastructure with FinOps practices to understand spending patterns, then developing a cloud optimization strategy. To implement the strategy successfully, however, he cautions that it’s essential to build an organizational culture of optimization and accountability.

We’re actively and proactively trying to put in mechanisms that are going to optimize the amount of value we’re getting out of these cloud resources for the money that we’re putting in.

As the chief cloud strategy officer for Deloitte Consulting LLP, David Linthicum is responsible for building innovative technologies that help clients operate more efficiently while delivering strategies that enable them to disrupt their markets. David is widely respected as a visionary in cloud computing.

Matching cloud costs to need: Using FinOps for more effective cloud governance

Using FinOps to more effectively govern cloud usage and match cost to need to value can help organizations avoid potentially costly reactions, such as overprovisioning.

Manage complexity and costs to increase your cloud value

Cloud is a mature technology, but there are still growing pains—especially around multi-cloud complexity and costs. Cross-cloud strategy and supercloud might be ways to ease the pain.