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Value of FinOps

The Value of FinOps

Traditional IT cost management practices will not work within a cloud environment. Also, how would you link a traditional on-premises fixed expense model to the cloud environment? For a variable expense model, such as the cloud model, you only pay for what you use. Additionally, you have greater financial flexibility, agility, and innovation potential as …

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Cloud Centre of Excellence v3 : what did we change in the summer of 2022?

Three years ago we designed the first  45 Degrees version of our ‘Cloud Centre of Excellence’ approach.  We looked at AWS, Microsoft and Google, spoke with our customers and came up with a framework to drive the transformation to a modern service oriented IT organisation.  Where cloud technology is the catalyst in the story. Since …

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Architects design houses

(But there’s a lot more work before they can be built) Imagine yourself as a real estate developer. You just bought a large piece of land and eventually want to use it to build and sell houses. These sales will earn you money.  But there’s a problem.  Your new land is not ready to just …

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Building a Modern Services Oriented Organization – Part 3

Companies like Spotify are often referred to as examples of modern IT organizations.  Unfortunately modernizing a large, complex enterprise is not as simple as just copying models like these.  The basic idea however is the same: how does an IT organization provide more value to the business by bringing technology closer to the customer? Cloud …

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