Ready to Run: A Guide to Maturing Your FinOps Automation

FinOps teams are facing growing cloud complexity, and manual processes are no longer enough to keep up. Bottlenecks, slow decision-making, and outdated workflows are holding your team back from delivering the fast insights and cost optimization your organization needs. Automation is the key to unlocking efficiency, driving ROI, and scaling your FinOps operations effectively. Ready to Run: A Guide to Maturing Your FinOps Automation provides a clear roadmap for transforming manual processes into a fully optimized, automated FinOps practice. This guide helps you assess your automation maturity and provides actionable steps to scale automation across your cloud financial operations.
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Key Automation Insights

In this playbook, you will discover:

  • A comprehensive framework for FinOps automation maturity, breaking down the Crawl, Walk, Run model into actionable steps for your team.
  • How to evaluate your organization’s current automation maturity across five key pillars, including frequency and process integration, human involvement, ownership, adaptability, and value creation.
  • Examples of how automation transforms key cloud tasks, helping you visualize how to apply automation for your particular use case.
  • An interactive worksheet to measure your team’s automation maturity and map out clear steps for improvement.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to level up your FinOps automation. Fill out the form and download the full playbook now and start transforming your practice today!

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Focus on FinOps: The alignment paradox

Since the advent of FinOps, much progress has been made in industry adoption and business alignment. In fact, our previous study showed that 82% of companies now had a formal FinOps team in place. This study sets out to find out what, if anything, is still standing between current-state FinOps and achieving continuous return-on-investment in the cloud, and if there are any gaps between FinOps teams and the stakeholders they serve.
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Real-world insights

We surveyed 900 professionals in three distinct groups: FinOps leaders and practitioners, DevOps/Engineering, and IT Executives to discern any perceptual differences between these cohorts.

Read this report to learn:

  • How much progress have companies made in creating a culture of FinOps and alignment across teams.
  • Are there any lingering gaps between FinOps teams and DevOps/Engineering teams?
  • What nirvana should look like for a company with alignment across all teams.
  • Recommendations for unlocking the full potential of FinOps.

Fill out the form and download the full report now to access comprehensive insights and strategic guidance on navigating the evolving landscape of FinOps.

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Are you struggling to control Kubernetes costs? Lacking visibility into container spend?

Watch this joint webinar where FinOps experts from CloudBolt and StormForge discuss how you can:

  1. Gain complete cost visibility across Kubernetes clusters
  2. Continuously optimize Kubernetes application resources and spend
  3. Accurately chargeback Kubernetes costs to teams
  4. Maximize ROI from your Kubernetes investments

Top FinOps tools compared

Get an unbiased review of top FinOps tools in the market as evaluated by leading analyst firm GigaOm. See why CloudBolt should be on your shortlist.

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CloudBolt named GigaOm Leader

How CloudBolt performed

At CloudBolt, we have the confidence to let our solution speak for itself.

Top rankings

  • #2 in “Business Criteria” category
  • #2 in “Emerging Features”‘
  • #4 in “Key Features” category
  • Top 3 overall, closest to center with Apptio and NetApp
  • 1 of only 4 vendors named an “Outperformer”

Key strengths

  • Advanced forecasting, trend, and variance analysis to manage cloud budgets
  • Cloud rate optimization across public and private clouds during provisioning
  • Seamless IT finance integration and chargeback with systems like SAP and Oracle
  • Proprietary AI/ML algorithms for anomaly detection and cost insights
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Why read the GigaOm Radar for Cloud FinOps?

Objective, unbiased analysis

While some vendors may cherry-pick data to paint their solutions in the best light, CloudBolt is committed to transparency. That’s why we’re proud to share the complete GigaOm Radar report, which provides an independent, forward-looking assessment of all the major players in the cloud FinOps space. Their analysts do not engage with vendors outside the research process to avoid unintentional bias.

Focused on critical capabilities

The report defines the most relevant functional and non-functional aspects that are widely adopted and well-implemented, such as:

  • • Dynamic extraction of pricing data from multiple public clouds
  • • Budget threshold management and alerts
  • • Cost allocation and showback
  • • Security, authorization, and audit controls

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Submit the form to instantly receive a download link for the complete GigaOm Radar for Cloud FinOps report. See the full decision criteria comparison and find out why CloudBolt ranked as a top solution.

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“CloudBolt has a strong offering in both FinOps capabilities and cloud operations as a whole. The strength of these capabilities puts this solution in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant as an Outperformer and Leader.”

 

– GigaOm Radar for Cloud FinOps

GigaOm Leader Cloud FinOps
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Evaluating Your Options Beyond VMware

The recent $69 billion acquisition of VMware by Broadcom has led to significant changes, causing concern among VMware customers. As Broadcom implements disruptive changes in licensing, support, and product offerings, many organizations are reevaluating their cloud strategies. Our latest whitepaper, Evaluating Your Options Beyond VMware, provides a comprehensive guide to understanding these changes and exploring viable alternatives.
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Strategic Insights

In this whitepaper, you will discover:

  • The key issues facing VMware customers, including price increases, forced product bundling, reduced innovation, and declining customer support
  • Common migration strategies, including staying with VMware, switching to vSphere Foundation, replacing the VMware stack, and shifting to cloud-native solutions
  • The benefits and risks associated with each migration strategy to determine the best path forward for your organization
  • How CloudBolt’s solutions for hybrid cloud management, orchestration, and financial management can provide a seamless transition from VMware, enhancing efficiency, agility, and value

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to explore your options beyond VMware. Fill out the form and download the full whitepaper now to access comprehensive insights and strategic guidance on navigating this critical transition.

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Featuring guest presenter Tracy Woo, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research

In a world where 98% of enterprises are embracing FinOps, cloud leaders are beginning to see that FinOps must move beyond cost savings to a more strategic outcome: quantifying and balancing cloud return on investment (ROI).

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Augmented FinOps: The Next Era for Cloud Cost Management

The digital success of modern companies hinges on effectively harnessing cloud power to remain competitive, boost agility, and drive innovation. However, many businesses still struggle to fully quantify the value of their cloud investments. Our latest whitepaper, Augmented FinOps: The Next Era for Cloud Cost Management, introduces an innovative approach that integrates AI/ML with financial operations, optimizing cloud cost management for better ROI.
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Innovative Strategies

In this whitepaper, you will discover:

  • A fundamental understanding of Augmented FinOps and how it merges AI/ML with financial operations, offering a novel approach to cloud cost management
  • How Augmented FinOps addresses the challenges businesses encounter in quantifying cloud value and aligning it with strategic objectives
  • How Augmented FinOps goes beyond traditional practices, offering more efficient, predictive, and customizable solutions
  • How this groundbreaking approach is ushering in a new era of cloud financial management, enabling organizations to derive better ROI from their cloud investments

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to optimize your cloud financial management. Fill out the form and download the full whitepaper now to access innovative strategies and comprehensive insights for more effective cloud cost management.

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The Truth About Cloud Value

Cloud computing has captured the imagination of enterprises everywhere with its promises of increased agility, innovation, and cost efficiency. However, as cloud adoption continues to rise, misconceptions about cost management and value optimization persist, particularly within the realm of FinOps. Our latest eBook, The Truth About Cloud Value, embarks on a mission to demystify these misconceptions and reveal the true potential of cloud optimization.
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In-Depth Insights

In this eBook, you will learn:

  • How cloud computing is evolving and the impact it’s having on enterprises
  • How to move beyond simplistic narratives and embrace a nuanced, value-driven perspective
  • Strategies to overcome the common challenges in maximizing cloud ROI
  • The critical role of FinOps in aligning cloud investments with strategic business objectives

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to gain strategic insights and practical guidance. Fill out the form and download the full eBook now to enhance your understanding and approach to cloud value optimization.

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An unbiased comparison

CloudBolt vs. CloudHealth for Cloud Financial Management

Are you looking for an objective, third-party perspective on the top cloud financial management solutions? Get an unbiased, vendor-neutral comparison of top cloud financial management solutions. Unlike other vendors who share in-house comparison guides, CloudBolt believes in empowering IT decision-makers with objective insights from respected industry analysts.

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CloudBolt named GigaOm Leader

How CloudBolt performed

At CloudBolt, we have the confidence to let our solution speak for itself.

Top rankings

  • #2 in “Business Criteria” category
  • #2 in “Emerging Features”‘
  • #4 in “Key Features” category
  • Top 3 overall, closest to center with Apptio and NetApp
  • 1 of only 4 vendors named an “Outperformer”

Key strengths

  • Advanced forecasting, trend, and variance analysis to manage cloud budgets
  • Cloud rate optimization across public and private clouds during provisioning
  • Seamless IT finance integration and chargeback with systems like SAP and Oracle
  • Proprietary AI/ML algorithms for anomaly detection and cost insights
GigaOm CloudBolt

Why read the GigaOm Radar for Cloud FinOps?

Objective, unbiased analysis

While some vendors may cherry-pick data to paint their solutions in the best light, CloudBolt is committed to transparency. That’s why we’re proud to share the complete GigaOm Radar report, which provides an independent, forward-looking assessment of all the major players in the cloud FinOps space. Their analysts do not engage with vendors outside the research process to avoid unintentional bias.

Focused on critical capabilities

The report defines the most relevant functional and non-functional aspects that are widely adopted and well-implemented, such as:

  • • Dynamic extraction of pricing data from multiple public clouds
  • • Budget threshold management and alerts
  • • Cost allocation and showback
  • • Security, authorization, and audit controls

Get your free copy

Submit the form to instantly receive a download link for the complete GigaOm Radar for Cloud FinOps report. See the full decision criteria comparison and find out why CloudBolt ranked as a top solution.

Download now

grid pattern

“CloudBolt has a strong offering in both FinOps capabilities and cloud operations as a whole. The strength of these capabilities puts this solution in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant as an Outperformer and Leader.”

 

– GigaOm Radar for Cloud FinOps

GigaOm Leader Cloud FinOps