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In an insightful Galileo webinar interview, industry analyst Charles Araujo delved into the world of FinOps, shedding light on its significance and practical implications for IT operations professionals. As organizations increasingly grapple with the complexities of cloud computing and strive to optimize their financial management practices, understanding the core principles becomes essential.

The growing popularity of FinOps is creating an opportunity for you to level up your entire approach to IT financial and cost management by embracing FinOps as a foundational discipline that you apply to your entire technology estate. It’s not just about saving money — it’s about making smarter, data-driven decisions that fuel growth and innovation.

In this featured video, Earl Williams, a Systems Engineer at Carhartt and a longtime Galileo customer, shares a story about how Galileo helped them address a persistent issue within a critical application at their distribution center. Despite increasing CPU and memory resources as instructed by the application vendor, a problem persisted for Carhartt.

FinOps is beginning to take the enterprise by storm, but many enterprise IT leaders may be taking too narrow a view and risk falling into a trap. There’s a good reason for this upswing in FinOps attention: runaway cloud costs are becoming a significant challenge for enterprise IT leaders, particularly as they move legacy workloads to the cloud in earnest.