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Beyond cost optimization: Key FinOps trends heading into 2025

Dec 19, 2024 By Li-Or Amir In Spot
Picture this: A chic Barcelona seaside hotel, gusty autumn winds, endless tapas, and the Rioja flowing. Could there be a better setting for a FinOps conversation? That was the setting for FinOpsX Europe! It brought together 500 practitioners from EMEA, APAC, and even LATAM. Everyone was in the mood to learn and interact: exchange ideas, share challenges, and find solutions. Here’s a peek at the hottest discussion topics.
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Cloud Control Ep #32 It's Not Quite Rocket Science Randall Hunt's Journey from NASA to Open Source

Dec 6, 2024 By Spot In Spot
Today, Shon speaks with Randall Hunt, CTO of Kaelin. From his unconventional journey starting as a NASA physicist to becoming a key player in MongoDB's early days and later at AWS, Hunt shares invaluable insights on cloud architecture, DevOps practices, and the future of tech leadership. This episode explores everything from maintaining developer passion after decades in tech to practical advice for newcomers, while offering exclusive insider perspectives on AWS re:Invent and the changing landscape of cloud providers.
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3 ways to better use Effective Savings Rate (ESR)

Dec 2, 2024 By Li-Or Amir In Spot
In the realm of FinOps, new concepts emerge all the time. One pivotal metric recently introduced by the FinOps Foundation is the Effective Savings Rate (ESR). ESR measures the savings achieved through various cloud commitment deals, like Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs). This blog discusses how organizations can use the ESR metric while understanding its limitations and how to overcome them.
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Continuous infrastructure optimization: A cornerstone to a successful FinOps strategy

Dec 1, 2024 By Tzvika Zaiffer In Spot
The Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) discipline aims to understand and manage cloud costs while maximizing the value from cloud investments. While controlling cloud spend remains a key business objective, focusing FinOps efforts primarily on visibility and cost-cutting doesn’t get to crux of the problem and may even snowball into bigger issues – especially given the growing complexity of the cloud and the stakeholders involved in managing it.
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Make the most out of Azure cloud commitment flexibility

Nov 26, 2024 By Li-Or Amir In Spot
In the landscape of cloud cost optimization, Azure’s discounted Reservations and Savings Plans stand out for their flexibility. On June 6th, 2024 Azure postponed its decision to limit reservation exchangeson its major compute services for an unlimited “grace period”. As a result, commitments on all of Azure’s compute and other services remain highly flexible to modify or exchange.
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Cloud Control Ep #31 Balancing Innovation and Trust in Cloud Storage with Ali Zafar

Nov 18, 2024 By Spot In Spot
In the latest episode of Cloud Control, Ali Zafar, the Vice President of Engineering for Hybrid Infrastructure at Dropbox, joins host Shon Harris to discuss the challenges of managing a multi exabyte infrastructure. Ali shares his background working at companies like Tesla, Google, and Cisco, and how they have shaped his approach to cloud and hybrid infrastructure. He emphasizes the importance of leveraging emerging technologies like AI and the significance of culture and relationships in driving innovation and efficiency.
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4 DevOps Days takeaways for re:Invent, Ignite, and FinOpsXE

Nov 12, 2024 By Li-Or Amir In Spot
On October 31 the main floor of the DevOps Days TLV Expo was bustling with Halloween-themed booths of exciting DevOps vendors, offering treats for badge scans and whisky shots for “personal secrets”! It was a beautiful display of business-as-usual in unusual times—a worthy prelude to the upcoming winter event season. Here are some key lessons from the Spot by NetApp booth you might want to bring along for the upcoming FinOpsXE, Ignite, and re:Invent.
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NetApp named as a major player in IDC MarketScape: Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) cloud cost and capacity optimization

Oct 29, 2024 By Bobby Gaffin In Spot
NetApp is excited to announce that it has been named a major player in the first IDC MarketScape: Asia Pacific (excluding Japan), (APEJ), Cloud Cost and Capacity Optimization 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc, September 2024).
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Re-evaluating your VMware infrastructure strategy? 3 Ways to maximize your savings with NetApp and Azure

Oct 28, 2024 By Lauren Dyer In Spot
Since its acquisition of VMware, Broadcom has made significant changes to their licensing model, which have had an impact on many customers’ licensing costs. These changes have disrupted, and in some cases, completely upended VMware customers’ existing platform strategy, becoming a forcing function for them to carefully assess the potential risks to the business and the future impact they may have on their VMware infrastructure platforms.
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Cloud Control Ep #30 Balancing Innovation and Turst in Cloud Storage with Ali Zafar

Oct 25, 2024 By Spot In Spot
In the latest episode of Cloud Control, Ali Zafar, the Vice President of Engineering for Hybrid Infrastructure at Dropbox, joins host Shon Harris to discuss the challenges of managing a multi exabyte infrastructure. Ali shares his background working at companies like Tesla, Google, and Cisco, and how they have shaped his approach to cloud and hybrid infrastructure. He emphasizes the importance of leveraging emerging technologies like AI and the significance of culture and relationships in driving innovation and efficiency.
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