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How Engineers Can Own the Cloud Cost Narrative

Being a “good” developer, engineer, architect, product manager that just builds great products isn’t enough any more. There was a time where technical experts in companies would be left alone. As long as their products worked, kept working and stayed within budget, few questions were asked. The cloud has unlocked

Manage Your Cloud Like an Operator

Exstratus President, Philip Flesher, challenges finance and engineering leaders to overcome the fact that most “software companies are failing in the cloud.” Watch below as Philip explains why companies are struggling with Cloud cost management and shares how thinking like an operator can help overcome these challenges as companies scale.

Opening the Blackbox of Cloud Cost Management

Finance leaders share common complaints about managing cloud costs: We don’t know what we don’t know, so we don’t know where to start. Constantly changing infrastructure means that by the time we figure it out, it’s changed. Even when we know where we’re spending, we don’t know how changing the

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How Engineers Can Own the Cloud Cost Narrative

Being a “good” developer, engineer, architect, product manager that just builds great products isn’t enough any more. There was a time where technical experts in companies would be left alone. As long as their products worked, kept working and stayed within budget, few questions were asked. The cloud has unlocked

Manage Your Cloud Like an Operator

Exstratus President, Philip Flesher, challenges finance and engineering leaders to overcome the fact that most “software companies are failing in the cloud.” Watch below as Philip explains why companies are struggling with Cloud cost management and shares how thinking like an operator can help overcome these challenges as companies scale.

Opening the Blackbox of Cloud Cost Management

Finance leaders share common complaints about managing cloud costs: We don’t know what we don’t know, so we don’t know where to start. Constantly changing infrastructure means that by the time we figure it out, it’s changed. Even when we know where we’re spending, we don’t know how changing the

From Cost Optimization to FinOps – 4 Changes to Look Forward To

The lure of reducing cloud costs makes investment in the people, services, and tools to discover and accelerate these savings an easy sell to your leadership. However, many organizations see these savings wane without a philosophical shift from controlling cloud costs to investing in efficient cloud operations. To address this

5 Mistakes to Avoid When Starting FinOps

Just when most organizations start to feel confident with how their cloud operations are paving the path to capability and customer growth, warning bells start to sound from finance executives and board members… “Cloud spending is out of control.” “We need to better understand where our cloud costs are going.”

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