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How can travellers take advantage of crypto ATMs?

Crypto ATMs are on the rise for numerous reasons. The most obvious is that cryptocurrencies have grown in popularity and attracted more users, as they offer a decentralized way to send money internationally. Cryptocurrencies are typically bought and sold online, but they can also be purchased at ATMs. This further improves accessibility and benefits travelers.

FinOps Savings Optimization: Stop Overspending, Start Saving | Harness Blog

Traditional FinOps focuses on cutting overspend, but the real opportunity lies in maximizing savings you're missing. This paradigm shift reframes cloud cost management as a proactive savings optimization strategy rather than reactive spend control, helping organizations unlock hidden cost efficiency through governance, automation, and continuous optimization practices. Cloud spend is up 40% year-over-year. Your CFO wants answers.
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Avantra 26: A Breath of Fresh Multi-Tenant AIR

There's a crackle and spark in the air at Avantra lately, and I'm so pleased to be writing this bit on what we've accomplished with the Avantra 26 release. Automated root cause analysis, multi-tenant management support for Cloud ALM, enhanced security operations and financial operations monitoring BTP - it's all there, and more. It's an exciting and innovative release for Avantra!

From Visibility to Real Savings: Turning FinOps Insights into Measurable Cost Reduction

FinOps programs are maturing, and most organizations have better visibility into cloud spend than ever before. Dashboards are full of data. And yet costs keep climbing. The problem isn’t the data. It’s the gap between knowing where the waste is and actually eliminating it. In this joint session, Tangoe and Kubex come together to bridge that gap. Tangoe brings deep expertise in spend management and FinOps discipline, while Kubex delivers infrastructure-level optimization across cloud, Kubernetes, and the AI and GPU workloads that are rapidly becoming the next frontier of cost pressure.

The Future of FinOps: Engineering, Applications & Cloud Cost Accountability

In this episode of the FinOps on Azure Podcast, Michael Stephenson is joined by Ben DeBow, Founder and CEO of Fortified, to discuss the next evolution of FinOps and why cloud cost management needs to move beyond dashboards, reporting, and allocation. Ben shares insights from years of helping enterprises optimize cloud spend and explains why the biggest savings opportunities are often hidden inside applications, workloads, and engineering decisions—not infrastructure.

FinOps KPIs for IT Infrastructure: A Practical Field Guide for Cost Visibility

Infrastructure cost visibility has become a critical part of IT decision-making. Performance still matters, but for many infrastructure leaders, that’s no longer the full conversation. Leadership teams increasingly want clarity around cost movement, upgrade exposure, underutilized resources, and whether infrastructure decisions are financially defensible. That creates a different requirement for operations teams: visibility that connects technical behavior to business impact.

Top-Down FinOps: Align Cloud Spend with Real Business Strategy

In this episode of FinOps on Azure, Michael Stephenson sits down with Frank Contrepois, independent FinOps voice and co-host of The FinOps Guys podcast — to explore what it really means to manage cloud costs from a business-first perspective. Frank has been in the FinOps space for nearly a decade and brings a genuinely different angle to the conversation. His background in commodity trading at Strategic Blue (a Morgan Stanley spinoff) shaped how he thinks about reserved instances, commitment strategies, and why most teams approach cost management the wrong way round.

How to Align CloudOps and FinOps for Better Azure Cost Management

The rapid migration to the cloud has brought unprecedented agility to modern enterprises, but it has also introduced a significant challenge in the form of cloud sprawl. As engineering teams provision resources at breakneck speed to support new applications and AI-driven workloads, financial departments often struggle to keep track of the escalating costs. This disconnect between operational execution and financial oversight is a primary driver of wasted cloud spend. To truly harness the power of scalable infrastructure without breaking the budget, organisations must bridge the gap between CloudOps and FinOps. Aligning these two disciplines ensures that technical performance and financial accountability work hand in hand to deliver sustainable business value. For companies heavily invested in Microsoft ecosystems, this alignment is even more crucial. Unchecked deployment can lead to massive end-of-month bill surprises, turning what should be a strategic advantage into a financial burden.