Cloudsoft

This month we're challenging our team get out from behind their desks and cover 1000 miles by foot, cycling, swimming or any other non-motorised means! We're aiming to raise £1000 for Edinburgh-based social enterprise Social Bite to break the cycle of homelessness. The Social Bite Villages provide transitional housing and support to people experiencing homelessness to help them get their lives back on track. You may also have sampled their excellent brownies and toasties in their cafe on Edinburgh's Rose Street, where they employ homeless and formerly homeless people.

On 25th February 2021 we hosted a virtual event on Cloud Cost Management and how FinOps can help organisations establish of a culture of management and accountability for cloud costs, along with some practical tips on the tools available to get you started. Speaking at the event were Ben de Mora (FinOps Instructor), Ashley Hromatko (Senior FinOps Manager, Pearson) and Aled Sage (VP Engineering, Cloudsoft). Their talks are summarised below. FinOps can be defined as the practice of bringing together Finance, Technology and the Business to master the unit economics of the cloud for business advantage. FinOps is a financial operating model, focusing on collaboration to maximise business value; it's about assigning accountability for cloud spend within your organisation, providing financial and operational control without sacrificing the other big benefits of the cloud such as innovation.