Finops Mission impossible?: AZURE AI Services cost + Foundational models cost such as GPT-4, LLAMA2 or Mistral (I)
Did you realize Microsoft is involved in a frenetic evolution of their AI services?.Old AI services such as “Luis” or QnMaker are now label as Classic, new LLM (Large Language Models), those which speak with you, as GTP 4.0 or GTP 3.5 Turbo from OPEN AI are available to customers through a request application form…
FINOPS, Our Cloud Guidance to Cost harmony – MICROSOFT Approach (II)
Do you want to speed up your Finops practice on Azure?. Here we follow our last post with some simple approaches to allocate cost. Today, we have some nice workarounds and most important very effective to understand our cloud spending. Within Azure Finops tools we can deploy ARM templates as “Cost optimization workbook” and “Governance…
FINOPS, Our Cloud Guidance to Cost harmony – MICROSOFT Approach (I)
Microsoft started his journey to FINOPS as a Premium Founder Member in February 2023. Many IT professionals figured out if this culture and methodologies to leverage cost efficiency would bring value on Azure. After some months the question has a clear response from Redmond. Microsoft is undertaken to support its customers to achieve more with less…
AMAZON S3 versus Sharepoint Online – Godzilla versus Hulk ( Part II)
SharePoint Online brings a tremendous environment of collaboration to your users. When you are working with partners or employees of your own company located in several subsidiaries in your country, this is the best in class approach. But what is a file storage service? A file storage service is a type of online service that…
AMAZON S3 versus Sharepoint Online – Godzilla versus Hulk ( Part I)
I´ve read a lot and heard about Amazon S3 and SharePoint Online competition. Face to face, many companies think one is the best than the other. Even i had to listen a comment from a Microsoft guy saying clearly and loudly, SharePoint was quite better solution than Amazon S3. To be honest, it depends on…
FIRST FIVE MYTHS AND LEGENDS ABOUT FINOPS
The first definitions of FinOps as such, arise during the period of 2018 – 2020 to consolidate as a framework or financial culture in the cloud world and be sponsored by the FinOps Foundation. Today there are more than 10.000 FinOps practitioners and more than 80% of enterprises in US are looking for a way…
HOW TO PROVIDE GOVERNANCE ON AWS FROM AZURE? A HOLISTIC VIEW
Hybrid cloud is a big challenge for mostly all the companies out there. They need to integrate their on premise workloads and cloud native solutions with similar governance, security posture and devops for instance. Some solutions can use more or less VMs, Microservices, Data analytics, ETL. But what happens when you want to use AWS…
CLOUDMANJI !! – WHEN YOU WORK IN FINANCE AND ALL AROUND YOU IS OPEX
The drums are beating, can you hear them?. But I don’t know where the sound is coming from. It’s thunderous, ringing in my ears…boom,boom…pause,..boom,boom. Like elephant heartbeats… It is Cloudmanji!. A game that I don’t like to play as a financial manager, as a specialist in the purchasing department although i have been invited without…
MARKETPLACE: AN EXCLUSIVE AZURE & AWS SHOPPING CENTER – PART II
When you take a look to AWS, you can smell the origin of their public cloud strategy and why you can buy thirty-party technology solutions such as Palo Alto Firewalls, Linux Red Hat or SUSE VMs with lots of applications, or even Cisco or other network providers products. As you know, marketplaces are nothing else…
MARKETPLACE: AN EXCLUSIVE AZURE & AWS SHOPPING CENTER
When you, as a user, access your Azure Portal or AWS portal, you have the option to buy thousands of products or solutions preconfigure for you. You don´t need to worry for the licences or the IT capabilities to design or deploy an specific solution as there are all build following customer needs for several…
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