FinOps Solutions
Reduce Wasted Cloud Spend and Invest in Innovation with a Successful FinOps Practice
Managing cloud spend is the top challenge for organizations. Not only is more than a quarter of cloud spend wasted, but organizations reported going over their cloud budgets by an average of 15%. Optimizing cloud spend requires governance processes, leading organizations to adopt FinOps practices to combine financial management with cloud engineering and operations.
FinOps can help you:
- Optimize cloud spend through informed decision making
- Free up budget and reclaim wasted spend
- Invest in innovation and competitive differentiation
DSS and IBM Solutions for Cloud Cost Optimization
As an IBM Platinum Partner, DSS recommends Apptio, an IBM company, to govern and refine cloud spend. Apptio ingests, aggregates, and normalizes spend, cost, consumption, performance, and attribute data from disparate systems, including cloud vendors, to deliver a connected understanding of your technology spend and its business value. Armed with this insight, you can make smarter, more informed decisions about how you consume cloud.
DSS and Apptio can help you:
- Reduce cloud costs by an average of 30%
- Accurately allocate 100% of cloud spend
- Accelerate forecasting cycles and adapt to changes faster
- Dynamically manage work, resources, and portfolios
- Ensure continuous alignment to business strategy
SOURCES:
1. Flexera, 2024 State of the Cloud Report, Mar 2024
2. ibid.
3. Apptio, Cloud Cost Management
An estimated
27%
of public cloud spend is wasted.
Control Your Cloud Costs
DSS has the cloud optimization
expertise to help you get your FinOps practice off the ground, including:
- Solution expertise and implementation
- Frameworks and help identifying
infrastructure dependencies - Recommendations for managed
services and staffing partners
