Cloud FinOps

Improve financial management and visibility of cloud spend with Cloud FinOps, a framework for optimizing cloud operations.

Adopt a FinOps framework.

Moving to one or multiple clouds is a change many organizations are not fully prepared for. They may see the benefits of cloud storage, but don’t uncover the challenges of financial management until it’s too late and they’ve already migrated.

A Cloud FinOps framework can provide better financial oversight and counteract potentially significant budget overages, lack of business visibility, waste, and operational inefficiencies.

Insight provides the expertise and resources to help clients adopt a Cloud FinOps framework and culture to increase business value realized from switching to cloud.

Ways we help include:

  • FinOps Envisioning Session — Information about each phase of the FinOps framework and best practices
  • FinOps Fast Start — An envisioning session with current-state cloud spend and optimization analysis and actionable recommendations
  • FinOps Accelerator — Framework strategy assessment with current-state cloud spend analysis and actionable recommendations
  • Cloud Inform Tool — Multicloud cost management to help gain better visibility of spend
  • Managed FinOps — A guided approach to continuous cloud financial improvement
 

Learn more with this solution brief.

Cheers to Cloud: Reducing Your IT Bar Tab With Cloud FinOps

In this webcast, learn about Cloud FinOps and ways it can help mitigate risk and drive optimal cloud consumption.

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Cloud priority #1

It’s estimated that more than 30% of cloud spend today is waste.1 Optimizing existing cloud use for cost savings not only helps prevent that waste but drives improved ROI and higher-value outcomes.

Top cloud initiatives for 2022 across all organizations

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Flexera. (2022). State of the Cloud Report.

What does a Cloud FinOps framework do?

Using Insight’s guided approach to continuous cloud financial improvement, clients have been able to reduce cloud spend by millions.

With a Cloud FinOps framework, you can: 

  • Inform — Drive accountability through cost visibility and full allocation of spend.
  • Optimize — Maximize efficiency through pricing and usage best practices.
  • Operate — Drive adoption and behavior through tool sets, process, training, and Organizational Change Management (OCM).

Learn more in our FinOps Fundamentals webinar series.

How to Reduce Financial Risk in IT

The “why” of a FinOps framework

What does FinOps mean to your organization? In this webcast, hear from Insight and Microsoft experts as they discuss the “why” behind FinOps and describe how it works when successfully implemented.

FinOps Inform Phase

Leverage FinOps to drive accountability.

Improving spending and budget visibility creates accountability across your organization. In this webcast, learn how to use FinOps best practices to improve visibility and reporting for your company.

Use FinOps to centralize buying power and optimize

Use FinOps to centralize buying power and optimize

Applying best practices for cloud cost optimization can improve your financial outlook. In this webcast, learn how to use FinOps strategies to identify areas for cost and usage optimization.

FinOps Operate Phase

Company preparation to operationalization

How can your organization adopt and maintain FinOps? In this webcast, Insight and Microsoft experts discuss how to prepare for, operationalize, and sustain a FinOps practice.

Cloud FinOps works with any provider.

The core principles of FinOps can be applied to any public cloud provider of your choice, including: 

Microsoft Azure
AWS
Google Cloud


 

Reduce Your IT Spend With FinOps for Cloud

What are the benefits of FinOps, and who should be part of FinOps discussions? Read this blog to learn about bringing FinOps into your organization and how to put it into action.

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Services Provider for Governments Saves Millions in AWS Spend

Reducing waste and optimizing cloud resources can result in substantial cost savings. Read this success story to learn how Insight’s guidance helped a client reduce its AWS spend by 12% for five years.

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