Here is the statistic that should bother anyone running infrastructure across more than one environment: 41% of IT leaders still find out about service interruptions through customer complaints, incident tickets, or manual checks (New Relic 2025 Observability Forecast, surveying 1,700 IT…
FinOps KPIs and metrics that matter (and the ones wasting your time)
Wasted cloud spend hit 29% in 2026, rising for the first time in five years, with AI workloads a major driver (Flexera 2026 State of the Cloud Report). That same year, 98% of FinOps practitioners reported managing AI spend, up from…
10 best FinOps consulting companies for cloud cost optimization
The cloud FinOps market is projected to reach $26.9 billion by 2030, growing at 12.6% annually (MarketsandMarkets). That growth makes sense when you look at the waste numbers: 29% of cloud spend is still wasted according to Flexera’s 2026 State of…



