FinOps

Managing costs in the face of skyrocketing infrastructure spin-up at Zoom

Company: Zoom, San Jose, CA Industry: Communications Just a few weeks after pandemic-related office closures took place worldwide, usage of Zoom, the cloud platform for video and communications, skyrocketed 30-fold while the company’s cloud infrastructure grew exponentially. When an enterprise scales up infrastructure at breakneck speed, tracking cloud spend and making informed decisions on cloud utilization are …

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Creating a culture of cloud spend awareness at Hulu

Company: Hulu, Los Angeles, CA Industry: Media With double-digit subscriber growth year over year, engineers at Hulu – the subscription video-on-demand service – have responded to consumer demand for programming by focusing on stability and performance. As that focus evolves, engineers also need to respond to questions and concerns about AWS cloud spend. When the company shifted …

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Managing cloud cost spend to balance budgets and improve cloud utilization at NextRoll

Company: NextRoll, San Francisco, CA Industry: Marketing and advertising NextRoll, the parent company of AdRoll and RollWorks, is a marketing technology company delivering products that ambitious marketers use and rely on to grow their businesses. To deliver value for its customers and keep its solutions optimized, NextRoll’s software developers are continuously running tests and spinning up new …

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You Need True Multi-Cloud Cost Management

The multi-cloud computing environment offers a variety of benefits for businesses and developers alike. Empowering teams to access diverse cloud capabilities and avoid vendor lock-in while taking advantage of competing services, a multi-cloud environment is an effective way to create more flexible and cost-effective software. However, the multi-cloud environment isn’t without its complicating factors. Formulating …

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