Cloud Financial Management — sometimes known as FinOps or Cloud Cost Management — is a function that helps align and develop financial goals, drive a cost-conscious culture through best practices, establish guardrails to meet financial targets, and gain greater business efficiencies.
Learn how to build a successful cloud financial management practice.
CloudHealth is VMware’s dedicated FinOps solution and First Premier Member of the FinOps Foundation.
Explore all the ways your organization can gain from cloud financial management practices.
Explore all the ways your organization can gain from cloud financial management practices.
With granular visibility into all your cloud environments, understand which departments, teams, projects, or applications are accountable for driving cloud cost and usage. Hold them accountable using chargeback and showback, and track consumption patterns over time to accurately forecast future budgets and reduce miscalculations.
Quickly identify opportunities to reduce wasted spend with custom rightsizing recommendations built with your workloads in mind and terminate unused assets for greater efficiency. Manage commitment-based discounts (e.g., Reservations and Savings Plans) throughout their lifecycle to maximize savings using CloudHealth’s purchase modeling, optimization, and amortization capabilities.
Ensure lines of business are complying with budget guidelines by proactively alerting stakeholders when cost centers are forecasted to exceed predefined budgets or spending anomalies are detected. Use CloudHealth’s dynamic policy engine to automate cost control measures by building governance policies that monitor your environment for opportunities to reduce wasted spend.
Easily align cloud financial data to strategic business metrics and KPIs such as gross margins and cost of goods sold to establish common goals across your organization. Collaborate on best practices across various teams to standardize operating in the cloud.
Together with CloudHealth, we are producing impressive business results. CloudHealth is a tool that’s very complimentary to FinOps—they can’t exist without one another.
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CloudHealth is named a leader in the ISG Provider Lens™ 2021 for Multicloud FinOps Platforms. Download the report to see why.
VMware (CloudHealth) was named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management and Optimization, Q3 2022. Learn why the Forrester report states that "VMware's solution is a superior choice for cloud cost management".
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