Best Splunk Podcasts (2025)

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Why People Skills Matter More Than Dashboards in FinOps ft. Zach Johnson, Splunk | Ep #46 44:26

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How do you turn FinOps from a reporting function into part of the company’s operating system? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sit down with Zach Johnson, Head of FinOps & Cloud Platforms at Splunk to unpack why world-class FinOps isn’t about dashboards or reports, it’s about business value, executive alignment, and proactive decision-making.…

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Top 4 Insights Every FinOps Leader Needs Going into 2026 ft. Alon Arvatz | Ep #49 10:09

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What did the world’s top FinOps practitioners learn in 2025? What should you change in your practice heading into 2026? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sit down to talk through key takeaways from 2025. I look back on dozens of interviews with FinOps leaders across industries to surface the four most repeated and most impactful insights from …

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Shifting from Cost-Cutting to Business Value for Executive Buy-in | Compilation | Ep 48 24:27

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How do leading companies shift FinOps from cost-cutting to strategic business value? In this special compilation episode of FinOps in Action, we tackle one of the toughest challenges facing FinOps programs: showing business value to gain executive buy-in for the FinOps program. Featuring: Emily Cornock - Suncorp Group Zach Johnson - Splunk Tammy Bu…

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Behind the scenes with AIOps in Salesforce Hyperforce 23:51

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As it rolled out AI and AIOps, Salesforce shunned the cloud repatriation route and instead expanded its public cloud presence with Hyperforce. Paul Constantinides, an engineering leader at Salesforce for more than 21 years, currently leads engineering for Hyperforce. In this episode, he details the evolution of the Salesforce internal platform over…

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001 [Welcome Episode] - Why Courage Comes Before Clarity: The Turning Points Women Rarely Talk About 4:25

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Do you feel like you’re close to a breakthrough? Even if everything around you still looks the same? Then you’re in the right place. I’m Parul Saini, and I’ve learned that real change rarely starts loud. It starts quietly, inside moments that look ordinary but feel different. This is where The Courage Curve begins. It’s the point where steady choic…

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Death by Dashboard: Why FinOps Needs Stories, Not More Charts ft. Gilad Katz, Riskified | Ep #47 41:18

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Is “death by dashboard” holding your FinOps program back more than you realize? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sit down with Gilad Katz, FinOps Lead at Riskified, to explore why world-class FinOps isn’t about knowing every technical detail or pushing engineers to make changes; it’s about neutrality, trust, and telling the right story with d…

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'Back to the Future' with self-hosted bare metal 25:44

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Rob Hirschfeld is the CEO and co-founder of RackN, founded in 2014, focused on "addressing the messy challenge of operating at scale in physical data centers," according to his LinkedIn profile. Hirschfeld has had a front-row seat to the last decade of conversations in enterprise IT ops about bare-metal server operations and cloud repatriation, top…

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JFrog ML CTO on enterprise AI software supply chain security 22:52

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Yuval Fernbach has more than a decade of hands-on experience in the realm of data and machine learning, and served as the co-founder and CTO of Qwak from 2020 until it was acquired by JFrog in 2024. Fernbach is now vice president and CTO of JFrog ML, a subset of the JFrog software supply chain management toolset focused on AI and machine learning o…

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ServiceNow AI maven on AI agent evolution 23:15

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Enterprise service management platform vendor ServiceNow has been one of the most assertive in the industry in developing its AI agent products over the past 14 months. Our guest, Dorit Zilbershot, has been with ServiceNow for six years, serving in various product management leadership roles focused on AI. In this interview, she shares recent Servi…

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Stop Treating FinOps Like a One-Time Project ft. Borja Martínez, NTT DATA Inc. | Ep #45 27:48

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Are you treating FinOps like a one-time project instead of an ongoing value engine? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sit down with Borja Martínez, EMEA FinOps Lead at NTT DATA Inc, to explore why successful FinOps starts with understanding your company’s business context, not just its cloud bill. Borja shared how his unconventional path from …

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Measuring the ROI on AI: Extracting Value for Humans & Businesses with Weatherford’s Sarah Karthigan 45:06

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Human-centered AI is transforming the energy sector at a scale we never imagined possible. Sarah Karthigan, Vice President of AI at Weatherford, is a driving force behind launching AI at scale across oil field services, making measurable impacts in productivity and financial returns. Formally, she created AI and enterprise data strategies that revo…

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Why Cost Optimization Isn’t the Goal – Value Is ft. Erik Norman, British Airways | Ep #44 44:11

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Is “cost optimization” the wrong goal for FinOps? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sit down with Erik Norman, FinOps Lead at British Airways, to unpack why true FinOps maturity isn’t about cutting costs, it’s about creating value. Erik shared how a disastrous “do not delete” incident early in his FinOps career shaped his philosophy: that unde…

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Cloud-native platform engineering in the enterprise 19:02

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The director of engineering for a Fortune 20 automotive company shares his thoughts on the latest in cloud-native technologies for platform engineers during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025. He also discusses ways platform engineering can address common cybersecurity risks, including software supply chain security. Finally, Saxena gives …

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How to Win Buy-In for FinOps: From Resistance to Results ft. Tammy Burnitt, UiPath | Ep #43 38:26

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Can empathy, sales skills, and gamification be the secret to driving FinOps success? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sit down with Tammy Burnitt, Director of FinOps at UiPath. Tammy discussed her 25 years of experience in IT and capacity management and how she founded the FinOps program during her time at Shell. Tammy shared how she transfor…

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CNCF Surveys highlight cloud-native AI connections 18:54

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Bob Killen, senior technical program manager at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), shares highlights from two survey reports released this week during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025: The 2025 State of Cloud Native Development report and AI Tech Radar Report. According to Killen, the results show that cloud-native technology …

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FinOps Made Fun: Leaderboards, Badges, & Cloud Savings ft. Amy Race, Citizens Bank | Ep 42 33:43

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Can enforcing a simple tagging strategy transform your entire FinOps program? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sit down with Amy Race, Head of Infrastructure, Cost Management, and Cloud FinOps at Citizens Bank, to dive into how her company moved 99% to the cloud. Amy shared how her team went from inconsistent tagging and cloud chaos to a stru…

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Oracle's Sudha Raghavan on AI's infrastructure renaissance 27:57

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Oracle senior vice president Sudha Raghavan manages all expansions and new buildouts for some of the world's largest infrastructure platforms supporting GPU clusters, including network design. As the company prepares to build new gigawatt data centers worldwide, she explains how its database heritage helps in operating increasingly demanding data c…

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Building FinOps into the DNA of AI & Data Platforms ft. Emily Cornock, Suncorp | Ep 41 42:52

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How do you balance cost optimization, business value, and innovation in the age of AI? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sat down with Emily Cornock, Executive Manager of Core Data Platforms and Cloud FinOps at Suncorp Group, to explore how her team is embedding FinOps principles into everything they build — from data platforms to AI systems. …

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How GitHub Code Quality connects to AppSec 22:22

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It's our first on-location episode! At GitHub Universe, Katie Norton, Research Manager for IDC's DevSecOps and software supply chain security practice, explains how a new extension to GitHub's CodeQL reflects increased awareness of security as a dimension of code quality. She also discusses the shifting strategic partnerships and competition that c…

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How FinOps Training Builds Stronger Cloud Teams ft. Idaliz Baez, RealOps | Ep 40 28:24

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What does good FinOps look like inside a large engineering organization? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sit down with Idaliz Baez, Founder and Director of RealOps, who has one of the most fascinating journeys into FinOps — from contamination engineer at NASA to FinOps instructor and leader. Idaliz has trained more than 200 FinOps practition…

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Splunk exec on AI observability's "double-edged sword" 15:45

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Patrick Lin from Splunk discusses how observability extends beyond IT, highlighting its importance in improving business decisions, customer support, and revenue. The interview also covers challenges in enterprise observability, like standardization and teamwork, along with the changing role of AI in observability methods. AI automation can help ob…

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Cribl CEO talks AI data management, MCP and AI bubble 23:56

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Observability and security company Cribl has had a front-row seat to the rise of generative AI, AI agents, and their impact on data management in IT. The company, which grew from log management into federated search, a data pipeline, a data lake, and a cloud-based managed service, also expanded its product offerings this week with notebooks for obs…

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How to Drive FinOps Awareness Without Slowing Teams Down ft. Tom Cross, Aer Lingus | Ep 39 31:52

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What does good FinOps look like inside a large engineering organization? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sat down with Tom Cross, FinOps Lead at Aer Lingus and a member of the FinOps Foundation Technical Advisory Council, to talk about building FinOps culture, engaging engineers, and shaping the global FinOps framework. Tom shared how he tra…

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Announcing “Off the Path with Sam and Steve” 8:00

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Sam Ladner and I have a new podcast, called Off the Path with Sam and Steve. It’s a limited series, where we talk about what a research career looks like, even when it goes “off the path.” Our first three episodes are live. Show Links Off the Path with Sam and Steve on Apple Podcasts Off the Path with Sam and Steve on YouTube Off the Path with Sam …

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Build vs. Buy: Choosing the Right FinOps Tools ft. Peter Crenshaw, IEM | Ep 38 32:10

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Should you build your own FinOps tool or buy one? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sat down with Peter Crenshaw, Manager of FinOps and M&A at IEM, to unpack one of the biggest questions I hear from FinOps leaders everywhere: when does it make sense to build, and when should you buy? Peter shared his journey leading FinOps at UKG and IEM, incl…

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Atlassian Rovo AI grows to 3 million monthly users 21:02

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What a difference six months makes: after adjusting its product pricing and bundling in April during its Team 25 US conference, Atlassian now says adoption for its Rovo AI products has taken off. The company's head of AI product talks about what changed, what's new at the Team 25 Europe conference this week, and what's ahead for Atlassian AI. Featu…

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Behind the Scenes of FinOps in Action for National Podcast Day ft. Alon Arvatz | BONUS EPISODE 19:38

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Managing Commitments, Anomalies & Regulations in FinOps ft. Gordon Douglass, SAP NS2 | Ep 37 27:17

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What does FinOps look like in highly regulated industries — and why is speed so critical when managing commitments and anomalies? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sat down with Gordon Douglass, VP of Cloud Assets & Risk Management at SAP NS2, to talk about the real-world challenges of running FinOps in government and enterprise-scale environm…

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Powering Possibility: Human-centered AI and Energy Innovation with Suraiya Khoja 54:14

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When you think about AI, is it merely a tool or an agent for change? Suraiya Khoja, VP of Product & Enterprise Innovation at NRG, spends her days leading an incredible team, turning energy data into real-time insights and systems that serve people across the value chain. Working at the intersection of analytics, transformation, and innovation, Sura…

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FinOps Negotiation, Procurement & Tagging Compliance ft. Tim Nolan, DataRobot | Ep 36 33:12

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Is FinOps only about cloud usage optimization or does it go deeper? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I was joined by Tim Nolan, Senior FinOps Engineer at DataRobot, who saved over $1M in AWS costs in just four months and achieved 99% tagging compliance. Tim shares his journey from engineering to IT finance to FinOps, and why negotiation skills,…

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FinOps vs TBM: Governance, Shadow IT & Enterprise Cloud Costs ft. Peter Brauer, T-Mobile | Ep 35 31:11

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Is cloud always the right move? And what happens when governance is missing? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sat down with Peter Brauer, Senior Enterprise Architect at T-Mobile, who has led FinOps governance frameworks responsible for over $150M in savings. Peter shares lessons from his transition from TBM (Technology Business Management) to…

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Measuring Business Value in FinOps & Getting Engineers Onboard ft. Swapna Samuel, BMO | Ep 34 34:05

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How do you build a FinOps practice that actually engages engineers, delivers business value, and grows with the help of the community? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sat down with Swapna Samuel, Head of FinOps and Clarity Business Management at BMO and FinOps Foundation Ambassador, to explore how culture, collaboration, and community have b…

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Why FinOps Fails Without Governance & Culture ft. Ben de Mora, Former GitLab | Ep 33 39:41

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Is FinOps really just about dashboards and tools, or is it more about people, culture, and governance? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sat down with Ben de Mora, former FinOps Lead at GitLab, to explore how FinOps needs to evolve beyond tooling into governance, collaboration, and product management thinking. Ben shares his unique journey fro…

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Splunk CTO Cory Minton goes beyond the dashboard and explores human potential, AI agents, and the machine frontier. 1:09:05

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As F1 gets a blockbuster endorsement this summer, key players behind the scenes are bringing a new level of urgency and insight from the pit lane into everyday life. Cory Minton, Global CTO at Splunk, is in the AI fast lane, working with some of the world’s largest companies to make complex systems more secure and partnering with McLaren F1 to make…

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There Are More FinOps Career Paths Than You Think ft. Taylor Houck, PointFive | Ep 32 33:55

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Where can a FinOps career take you? And how do the roles differ between small companies, global enterprises, and vendors? In this special episode of FinOps in Action, I sat down with Taylor Houck, FinOps Specialist and co-creator of the Cloud Efficiency Hub at PointFive, to trace his career journey across the FinOps landscape: starting as a practit…

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How Global Companies Engage Engineers & Build FinOps Culture | Compilation | Ep 31 27:49

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How do leading global companies engage engineers in FinOps and build a sustainable culture of cloud efficiency? In this special compilation episode of FinOps in Action, we bring together insights from FinOps leaders at Choice Hotels International, Sysco, Under Armour, and Carlsberg Group. Featuring: Mike Routier - Choice Hotels International Sonal …

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FinOps Isn’t a Solo Job & Why Partnerships Matter ft. TJ Johnson, MGM Resorts International | Ep 30 37:04

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How do you build a FinOps practice that balances cloud cost optimization, sustainability, and deep cross-functional engagement? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I am joined by TJ Johnson, Lead Architect for Platform Economics at MGM Resorts International. With over 25 years in IT and 15 years focused on public cloud and optimization, TJ shares …

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From Cloud Waste to Engineering Empowerment ft. Sridhar Ayala, Adobe | Ep 29 41:33

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How do you scale FinOps in a way that actually engages engineers, reduces waste, and drives cloud efficiency without sacrificing velocity? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sat down with Sridhar Ayala, Director of FinOps at Adobe, to explore how Adobe approaches FinOps at scale—shifting the focus from just cost savings to enabling engineering …

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Building a Cost-Aware Engineering Culture ft. Matan Ben-Ishay, Credit Karma | Ep 28 38:57

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FinOps isn’t just about tools—it’s about culture, structure, and long-term trust. In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sat down with Matan Ben-Ishay, FP&A, Engineering at Credit Karma, to explore what it really takes to build a cost-aware engineering culture and scale FinOps sustainably across an organization. Matan shares his approach to balanci…

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Why FinOps Needs to Think Like Security ft. Victoria Levy, Alteryx | Ep 27 28:54

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FinOps isn’t just about saving money — it’s about managing financial risk. In this episode of FinOps in Action, I’m joined by Victoria Levy, FinOps Engineering Lead at Alteryx, to explore how FinOps teams can learn from security, prioritize cost optimization alongside engineering, and get serious about forecasting cloud and SaaS spend. Victoria sha…

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Ideas That Fly with AI: Turning Complexity into Capability 1:11:59

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Air travel just got a little more automated, thanks to leaders like Southwest’s Angela Marano, Exec Advisor, VP of AI and Data Transformation, and Nicola Smith, Senior AI Programs Advisor. From avoiding delays to improving customer service, AI is reshaping operations on the ground and in the air—and Angela and Nicola are making sure it’s done with …

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The Cost of Bad Tagging in Cloud FinOps ft. Sherri Wooldridge, Carnival | FinOps in Action | Ep 26 31:38

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How can strong tagging practices make or break your FinOps strategy? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sat down with Sherri Wooldridge, Manager of Cloud FinOps at Carnival Cruise Lines and former FinOps lead at 3M, to explore the foundational role of data classification and tagging in cloud cost management. Sherri shares early lessons from her…

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Launching Enterprise FinOps at Scale ft. Scott Linn, Chevron | FinOps in Action | Ep 25 37:53

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How can enterprise FinOps drive change across cloud, culture, and leadership? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sat down with Scott Linn, Cloud and Services Optimization Manager at Chevron, who shares how he helped launch the company’s first FinOps function after decades in cloud operations. Scott reflects on the mindset shifts, executive supp…

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Why FinOps Isn’t Just for Cloud Anymore ft. Alex Landis & Simar Arora, Snowflake | Ep 24 34:41

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How is FinOps evolving to meet the rising challenge of data spend management? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sat down with Alex Landis, Senior Finance Manager, and Simar Aurora, Value Engineer at Snowflake, to explore how FinOps is being applied to the fast-growing world of data usage and cost optimization. Together, they share how Snowflak…

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Former Google Exec, Abigail Posner, Brings Humanity to Tech: Can AI & Human Creativity Coexist? 53:38

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“We are no longer in a universe where incremental change is enough to guarantee business growth.” Google’s Director of Creative Works Abigail Posner has spent her career linking the human experience to advancing technology. With AI presenting new challenges and opportunities to the business world, Abigail encourages professionals across industries …

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Why FinOps Is More Than Just Data ft. Amy Ashby, Under Armour | FinOps in Action | Ep 23 37:55

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How can FinOps culture shift cost from a finance problem to an engineering mindset? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I sat down with Amy Ashby, FinOps and Software Asset Management Lead at Under Armour, who shares her journey from IT data centers to cloud infrastructure and FinOps leadership. Amy unpacks the realities of building a FinOps pract…

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AWS VP plans Amazon Bedrock Agents observability and more 23:48

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The leader of search, observability, and cloud operations at Amazon Web Services outlines her strategic perspective on monitoring AI agent systems such as Amazon Bedrock Agents. Ultimately, she envisions unified visibility, including security, across AI workflows, from silicon to application, both inside and outside AWS. Featuring: Nandini Ramani, …

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Step into the world of intrapreneurs - innovators inside organizations - who ignite inspiration, fuel innovation, and unleash imagination against all odds. Prompting Potential spotlights bold individuals and influential ideas at the intersection of leadership, technology, and transformation. From integrating AI to driving meaningful change, these i…

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Automating FinOps & Earning Engineers Trust ft. Diana Lezcano, Digital.ai | FinOps in Action | Ep 22 30:09

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How can automation and engineering trust transform FinOps success? In this episode of FinOps in Action, I’m joined by Diana Lezcano, Former Head of FinOps Engineering at Digital.ai and a professional dog trainer, who shares her unique journey into cloud cost management and what it takes to scale FinOps in a dynamic, engineering-led environment. Tog…

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Dancing with AI: AI risks, rewards and the evolution of SREs 28:31

6M ago28:31

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Experienced IT practitioners offer their predictions for how AI will change observability, the role of the site reliability engineer and incident management within enterprise organizations, from best-case scenarios to pitfalls and risks. Come for the 40 combined years of IT ops expertise, stay for the "Highlander" references and football analogies.…