Rachel Dines

With self-service access, richer service capabilities, and API-based configurations, public cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based environments are making DevOps teams…

One of the secret weapons for our customers that have had success with cloud cost optimization is pretty simple—a recurring meeting. Not only does a recurring review of…

In my first blog on multicloud tagging best practices, I take a look at why tagging hygiene is so important for accurate visibility, reporting, and analysis of your cloud…

When VMware Secure State introduced the ability to create custom rules, we wondered what rules some of our customers would build. Would they build rules looking for specific…

Delivering actionable insights and trends from the wealth of data produced by consumption of public cloud infrastructure and services has always been at the core of the…

In order to help explain how AWS Savings Plans are applied, we’ve produced an updated cloud computing cost comparison with AWS Savings Plans included, with examples of how…

Last month the FinOps Foundation (F2) announced their intention to join the Linux Foundation. Not only does this give the FinOps Foundation an opportunity to scale with one…

Any engineering organization that has embraced the public cloud is looking for ways to be more productive. Even those with advanced cloud strategies know that manual and…

Why is tagging important? As organizations scale their cloud environment, there’s a wide variety of infrastructure services, assets, and resources on which stakeholders…

Misconfigured AWS S3 buckets are among the most common causes of data breaches for organizations operating in the public cloud. In many cases, the organizations affected aren…