Developing a strategy for controlling hard-to-predict cloud costs, remains difficult, especially when considering the new decentralized model of procurement.
Consider this: “Any person who can commit code to the cloud can commit your organization to spend,” said Jennifer Hays, senior vice president of engineering efficiency and assurance at Fidelity Investments and the FinOps Foundation’s governance board chairperson.
Yet there may be solutions. Hays – along with National Grid CIO Andi Karaboutis, McDermott CIO Vagesh Dave, and Accenture’s Cloud First Global Strategy and Consulting Lead Ashley Skyrme – are among the speakers at CIO’s Future of Cloud Summit, taking place virtually on November 8.
