The shock of your cloud invoice
The cloud promised flexibility, but mostly delivers surprises I speak weekly with people frustrated about their Azure costs and eager…
FinOps blogs
Sustainable investment or short-term solution?
Short-Term solutions with external expertise External database or FinOps experts can quickly add value, especially for specific projects or temporary…
Cloud performance versus costs
Multi-region deployment: performance boost versus double the costs Implementing your applications in multiple regions worldwide can improve performance quite a…
FinOps with hands on the buttons
FinOps Fiona provides real-time visibility into your expenses FinOps Fiona is your restaurant's smart, charming but strict accountant. Fiona likes…
ESG: sustainable solutions with database consultants
In an earlier blog, Gerard Zuidweg addressed the topic of sustainability, which is becoming increasingly important, partly due to the…
ESG in practice
Delving into sustainability We recently received a call from a customer asking if we, as one of their IT partners,…
Cloud database? Avoid an exponentially scaling invoice
In practice It may seem ideal, the pay-as-you-go model of the Cloud, but even then the costs can get significantly…
Cloudspend part 3: Optimize data modeling
1. Standardization: Reduce redundancy and optimize data consistency Normalization is a process of organizing data in a database to reduce…
Cloudspend part 2: Optimizing database usage
1. Downsize your database One of the most important cost factors in database management is the size of your database.…
Cloudspend part 1: The move to the cloud
The move to the cloud continues The trend of cloud migration where companies move their applications, data and infrastructure to…
De power of external experts
Taking on, passing and moving on In my spare time I am soccer coach for the youth of AVV Alphen.…
ICT workers are in short supply but…
Traditional recruitment When looking for ICT staff (we specialize in DBAs and FinOps), traditional recruitment agencies often run into a…
Azure optimization powered by practical, hands-on consultancy
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Monitoring
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