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Picture this. Gartner forecasts worldwide end-user spending for public cloud usage to total more than $720 billion in 2025 — up from $595 billion in 2024. Out of that spend, SaaS will make up a chunky $299 billion. For comparison, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) will make up nearly $212 billion and $209 billion, respectively. Elsewhere, BetterCloud’s State of SaaS 2025 report found that the average organization uses 106 different SaaS tools.

You’re probably not combing through cloud bills. That’s not your job as CEO. But if no one on your executive team can tell you what it costs to serve a customer, ship a feature, or launch a new product line, that’s a problem. Not a someday problem. A right-now, quietly-draining-your-margins kind of problem. FinOps tends to get lumped in with cost-cutting — some finance thing, some DevOps thing. But that framing misses the point. Done right, FinOps is a growth enabler.

It’s a question we hear often - how do we use the Progress Flowmon solution to block an attack? Flowmon is not an inline appliance that stands in the path of inbound traffic, so we partner with third-party vendors who supply equipment such as firewalls or unified security gateways. In this post, we’re going to show you how to instruct Fortinet’s firewall FortiGate via Flowmon ADS to block traffic in response to a detected anomaly or attack.

To read the full findings from this research, visit The Digital Sovereignty Revolution whitepaper by clicking here. As the digital landscape continues to evolve, one question is becoming increasingly pressing: are you in control of your digital future? With growing concerns around data sovereignty and the impact of geopolitical risks on cloud strategies, it's time to assess your organization's digital infrastructure.

June 12 started like any other Wednesday–until the internet broke. It started with Google Cloud’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) system, but the fallout hit everything built on top of it. Widespread service degradation swept across core Google products and third-party platforms. Gmail, Docs, Meet, and Chat went dark. Cloudflare services were unavailable. Developer and AI tools faltered.

Complex escalation policy? No problem. Alert Visualization shows exactly how your alert will route, before it ever fires.