FinOps: A New Approach in Getting Your Cloud Costs Under Control

Masterclass | VP Technology David Shepherd, ClearPoint

We’re sure you’ve experienced the occasional or regular “bill-shock” when the monthly cloud usage invoice turns up from Microsoft or Amazon and the sometimes difficult meetings that result from an unbudgeted or accidental overspend. If you haven’t yet you most likely will soon as your cloud footprint grows.

FinOps is the practice of merging together the finance and DevOps responsibilities and disciplines. When done correctly it enables distributed teams to make business trade-offs between speed, cost and service quality. FinOps is not just a process or set of tools, it’s a cultural practice that needs teams to collaborate and take ownership of cloud usage and spend.

In this session we’ll cover the principles, practices and strategies as well as an approach for adopting and embedding a FinOps culture in your organisation. There are a number of tools available to help you view and manage your cloud costs including some that allow you to estimate your infrastructure cost as you’re designing it. This session will give you a quick start overview of FinOps and share several resources for taking this approach into your organisation.

This session will be live to view from November 22 at 4:00 pm.

Dave Shepherd

VP Engineering, ClearPoint

Dave has 20+ years of IT experience in software engineering, project delivery, IT leadership, strategy and governance across a variety of industries. His experience spans software product companies, consultancies and corporates including 13+ years at Air New Zealand where he held GM roles leading the software engineering, application support and IT operations teams. With this mix of technical and leadership experience, Dave can operate and add value at many levels in organisations.

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Additional sessions will be released online from 21-25 November 2022.

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The in-person event sessions will be located at:

ClearPoint Innovation Garage

Ground level, 7-9 Fanshawe Street

Auckland CBD, 1010

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FinOps: A New Approach in Getting Your Cloud Costs Under Control

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Dave Shepherd

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