What is FinOps and why does it matter?!

Data in 2025, Getting Value from AI…or NOT and the Google Cloud Ultimate Cheat Sheet!

1- Value from Artificial Intelligence…or NOT?!

Only 10% of businesses see significant financial returns on their AI investments….Wonder why?! Read more about it here.

Credit: Marketoonist.com

2 — How To Think About “FinOps”

• While…for the sixth year in a row, “optimizing the existing use of cloud is the top initiative for all respondents”.
• Only “40% of respondents are using automated policies to shut down workloads after hours and to rightsize underutilized instances. Another 33% are using automated policies to implement required tags, while 43% still perform this labor-intensive process manually.”
• More here

3 — Priceline takes flight with real-time analytics in the cloud

Congratulations to Priceline’s CTO Martin Brodbeck for deploying real time, data, analytics and ai capabilities that create compelling customer experiences and drive up developer productivity! More here.