CRLIVE007: FinOps Maturity & Consumption Forecasting with Alison McIntyre, FinOps Foundation

With the economic conditions in 2023 calling for great attention to be paid to costs, along with cloud hitting a point of adoption maturity, FinOps is central to the cloud conversation right now.  Whilst Cloud should not predominantly be seen as cost saving exercise, there are often opportunities and even if cost saving is not top priority, ensuring your Cloud footprint is optimised is always critical.In this special LIVE episode from a FinOps event, sponsored by Apptio & Capgemini in London on 26 April 2023, Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Alison McIntyre, UK Ambassador for the FinOps Foundation, about the work of the FinOps foundation, the evolution of FinOps as a discipline, the importance of consumption forecasting and why that is different to a financial forecast.Finally, in place of this weeks trend, we take some audience questions and amongst other things, talk about the link between FinOps and sustainability.TLDR:00:37 Intros02:30 Cloud conversation with Alison McIntyre34:15  Audience questions40:50 Safari!Further Reading:https://www.finops.org/introduction/what-is-finops/