Multi-cloud FinOps Handbook

Multi-cloud has become a powerful strategy for businesses, but its complexity often leads to spiraling costs and inefficiencies. The key to unlocking its full potential lies in FinOps, a transformative framework that aligns technical and financial teams to drive strategic business value. This book explores the best practices and tools for managing costs and optimizing resources in a multi-cloud environment, using FinOps principles.

This book is a definitive guide to learning financial operations in multi-cloud environments, offering insights into cost optimization, governance, and financial management. You will learn about our unique FOCUS paradigm and its application in financial planning and budgeting. It combines best practices, real-world strategies, and future-focused trends to help businesses maximize ROI, foster collaboration, and align cloud investments with organizational goals.

By the end of this book, readers will gain the expertise to navigate complex multi-cloud environments with confidence, implementing FinOps strategies to drive cost efficiency, enhance collaboration, and ensure their cloud investments deliver maximum business value.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
● Learning the core principles of FinOps.
● Exploring the future FinOps trends like AI, GreenOps, and decentralized governance.
● Setting up the FinOps team and building a framework for spend efficiency.
● Best practices for implementing effective multi-cloud cost optimization.
● Fostering enterprise-wide ownership and accountability.
● Govern multi-cloud environments by implementing the Inform, Optimize, Govern processes.
● Maximizing ROI of cloud investments.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
This book is for FinOps practitioners and professionals, CIOs, IT leaders, cloud architects and engineers, finance and accounting teams, cloud tool developers and vendors, enterprise leaders and executives, SMEs, startups, academics, and researchers.

1. Cloud Computing Fundamentals
2. Introduction to Multi-cloud Environments
3. FinOps Foundations
4. FOCUS: Transforming FinOps for Business Success
5. Cloud Financial Management and Budgeting
6. Cloud Cost Allocation
7. Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies
8. Building a Multi-cloud Cost Optimization Plan
9. FinOps Processes in a Multi-cloud Environment
10. Monitoring, Measuring and Reporting Cloud Costs and Savings
11. Cloud Security, Governance, and Compliance
12. Case Studies and Real-world Examples of Multi-cloud FinOps
13. Future Scopes and Trends in Multi-cloud FinOps
Appendix A: Multi-cloud FinOps Platform
Appendix B: Cloud FinOps in Nutshell
Appendix C: References

● Satyendra Pasalapudi: Is an Oracle ACE director alumni and MBA graduate with 26+ years of diversified international experience in the IT industry that spans across multiple continents. He is an accomplished cloud, database professional, author, and speaker with the right blend of business and technology skills. Pasalapudi has bootstrapped various strategic business units in cloud, big data, Oracle support services, real-time reporting, and monitoring products in his career and is currently working as a managing director at Inflolob Global to lead the cloud business. Recently, he has worked at Oracle Consulting Solution Centre as director-platform architecture services, responsible for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure solutions. Prior to Oracle, he had worked at Apps Associates Pvt Ltd as director cloud services, heading their infrastructure managed services and cloud services at GDC, and had also worked with APTS, Pointsoft, Kenexa, DELL, and Megasoft in his earlier assignments.

He is a high-performing technology management executive with 25+ years of achievement, driving impactful business change by leveraging and creating technology and data assets. Superb leadership and communication skills to forge strong relationships that drive business-technology alignment and enable high-performing, motivated, innovative teams.

Pasalapudi possesses immense business acumen, technology expertise, and a strong people connect. His ability to coach, guide, and provide direction to resources at all levels is commendable. He supported customers across INDIA, the US, the UK, and the Middle East. His areas of strength include cloud, big data, performance tuning, capacity planning, architecting enterprise systems, infrastructure design, solutioning and datacenter operations. He has strong domain skills in Telecom, finance, and banking. Pasalapudi is the co-founder and immediate past president of the All India Oracle Users Group (AIOUG) and is a frequent speaker at the Oracle Open World, AIOUG Sangam, IOUG Collaborate, and other conferences.

● Venkat Reddy Chintalapudi: With over 25+ years of experience in various leadership roles in the software industry, Venkat Chintalapudi is a seasoned and passionate product management specialist who thrives on bringing ideas to life, delivering awesome products, and building world-class engineering teams.

His entrepreneurial mindset drives the enterprises to instill FinOps discipline and transform their financial structure to save huge on increasing cloud costs. As a certified product owner, scrum master, and project management professional, his experience in driving cross-functional global teams at scale creates value for customers and stakeholders with simple and elegant solutions. His insights in this book are the crucial components that help enterprises to go beyond their operational lifecycle and investigate synergies with FinOps revolution.

● Anirudh Sharma Valiveti: A passionate writer by choice, Anirudh Sharma comes with 8 years of experience, where his writings on philosophy, mentorship, and technology have sparked the interest of people. He drives the content roadmaps at scale as a strategist for enterprises with a vision to create an impact globally. With strong hands in research, his insights and creative writing style in this book serve the purpose of active engagement of readers in every way possible.

Anirudh Sharma's extensive research skills, along with industry-leading authors, are the value drivers that made us explore the best touchpoints around FinOps.