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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.
As outlined in our Application Resilience Maturity Model and eBook, the pinnacle of application resilience is modelling your applications. This enables you to automate the testing and deployment of reusable recovery and update patterns to support the application wherever it runs. Cloudsoft AMP enables this application-centric approach to resilience by providing a rich, live model of applications to manage the necessary multiplicity of monitoring and automation systems.
At Cloudsoft, we have the habit of heading to the pub with the team after work every week or so. We also like to run a monthly team event - a treasure hunt across the city of Edinburgh, a late-night standup comedy show or simply a mini-golf contest! All of those things are unfortunately on pause at the moment, but that didn’t stop us keeping team spirits high and having fun together. The past year of working from home has pushed us to get creative when organising team events. In this blog, Head of Operations Ludo Farine shares some of the highlight online social events we’ve run to keep that Friday Feeling alive. Let’s do this!
