What is FinOps? The Easy Explanation
FinOps is about building a culture focused on financial accountability across cloud services within an organization. It does not necessarily mean reducing spend but rather a balance of growth, iteration and real-time reporting communicating your utilization of cloud services (and why) in your business. This…
FinOps Job Description for Cloud isn’t just about scaling
FinOps jobs are becoming a necessity within organizations as they shift the landscape to help their company scale cloud usage while balancing governance operationally and financially. Finding the right mix of technical aptitude and business acumen affords anyone in or potentially pursuing a FinOps…
How Macronet Services Helped LRS Healthcare Streamline Their UC Selection & Implement Next Gen AV Design
Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) is one of the easiest options to deploy for employee collaboration both in the office or remote users. It has been instrumental in the new hybrid work model and inherently delivers key features of CRM integration, call analytics and…
It’s Time to Act on Copper Replacement
Prior to the passing of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the copper telecommunications infrastructure across the country was a monopoly held by the incumbent local exchange carriers. Upon passing the deregulatory act, local markets were opened to competition by competitive local exchange carriers (LECS) who were now able…
Why a Packet Fabric acquisition of Rstor is Good for Cloud
PacketFabric announced it acquired Rstor today in a move that should bolster both organizations to deliver fast, reliable networking of cloud traffic and infrastructure. Today, many organizations are faced with the Cloud Networking challenge of staying on-prem, going all-in on cloud resources or having…
What is Tierpoint—The Ultimate Guide For 2022
TierPoint is a US Based Datacenter company with 37+ colocation facilities across 50 states, delivering hosting, network services, security, compliance, disaster recovery, IT & managed services. They boast an industry-leading uptime SLA of 100% across their assets with a minimum N+1 design. Clients can expect…
Why You Need a Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Plan
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery known as BCDR is a defined process of executable procedures and policies to remain operational in the event of technical disruption. Disruptions could be physical (power, internet or infrastructure loss), geopolitical changes or even in recent months a global pandemic. Inside…
Why FinOps Should Expand out of Public Cloud
FinOps goal is not simply lowering cloud cost, the focus is to bring financial accountability to variable cloud spend within an organization. Many companies today realize both in Finance and Dev/IT that cloud can be unpredictable as they scale to support the growth of their…
What is Cloud Networking
What is Cloud Networking Cloud Networking provides connectivity between your workloads/instances for applications, storage, databases and more regardless of the location. Public, Private Cloud and on-premises data centers all connect with cloud networking in the ecosystem to facilitate data transfer. As edge networks rise in prominence,…
Telecom Expense Management to Reduce Costs in 2022
What is Telecommunications Expense Management (TEM) TEM (Telecommunications Expense Management) is a SaaS based expense system or a human analysis process of your carrier Opex & billing. Audit, Cost Recovery, re-pricing, and bill pay are just a few options Telecom Expense Management can support organizations. 25%…