CloudBolt: Pioneering the Future of Cloud Financial Management

For over a decade, CloudBolt has been at the forefront of helping companies unlock greater value from the cloud. With a keen understanding of both public and private clouds, CloudBolt empowers organizations to treat their cloud infrastructure as a unified fabric, optimizing costs while accelerating innovation. Leveraging advanced automation and orchestration, and utilizing AI/ML, CloudBolt’s Augmented FinOps solution propels customers from a "Cloud First" strategy to a "Cloud Right" approach, ensuring a seamless transition and maximum ROI.

Cloud computing has revolutionized business operations, yet many organizations struggle with extracting maximum ROI from their cloud investments. Enter CloudBolt, a company dedicated to solving this pressing issue. With a robust suite of tools and solutions, CloudBolt addresses the complexities of cloud financial management, offering a comprehensive approach that includes both public and private clouds. This holistic perspective allows businesses to manage their diverse cloud resources as a single entity, optimizing costs and enhancing operational efficiency.

FASTER: The DNA of CloudBolt

At CloudBolt, the pursuit of excellence is embedded in the company’s DNA—Daily Normal Activities. This ethos drives every employee to be one-day better, one-day FASTER. The company's culture is built on six core principles:

1. Focused: Relentlessly oriented towards customer and partner success, prioritizing for maximum advantage.
2. Accountability: Committed to doing what they say, owning outcomes, and learning from them.
3. Strategic: Thinking through every decision with the end goal in mind, advancing the company's vision and mission.
4. Trust: Striving to be dependable resources and advisors to customers and partners.
5. Execution: Clarifying necessary activities and focusing on aligned priorities.
6. Repeatability: Continuously scaling operations by learning, growing, and evolving business practices.

These principles are not just theoretical; they are the bedrock of CloudBolt’s operations, ensuring that the company remains agile, reliable, and innovative.

Augmented FinOps: Revolutionizing Cloud Financial Management

CloudBolt’s Augmented FinOps represents a significant advancement over traditional FinOps solutions, incorporating three core innovations that create expanding advantages for customers:

1. AI-Informed Insights: Utilizing AI/ML to provide enhanced cost observability and analysis, tailored to various personas and perspectives.
2. Full Lifecycle FinOps: Applying insights and automation across all resource stages, ensuring data-driven decision-making for cloud resources.
3. Cloud Right Approach: A unified control framework that facilitates the convergence of public and private clouds, enabling organizations to manage their cloud resources as a single entity. 

Key Benefits of Augmented FinOps

Proactive and Retrospective Value Balance

Augmented FinOps enables organizations to prevent cost anomalies before they occur, ensuring a balanced approach to cloud resource management. This proactive stance is coupled with the ability to extend FinOps capabilities to private clouds and emerging providers, offering a comprehensive view of cloud efficiency.

Intelligent Orchestration and Accessible Insights

By shortening the insight-to-action gap with enterprise-ready automation, CloudBolt ensures that relevant and actionable insights are available to every persona within an organization. This facilitates informed decision-making and enhances overall cloud governance.

The Future of FinOps

As a FinOps Foundation Certified Platform, CloudBolt’s Augmented FinOps solution is poised to take cloud financial management to the next level. It addresses the limitations of first-generation or DIY FinOps tooling, which often proves incomplete, overpriced, and unreliable.

Top analysts are now advocating for FinOps 2.0—what CloudBolt terms Augmented FinOps. This next-generation approach elevates cloud financial management from tactical policing to a strategic necessity, ensuring that every dollar spent on cloud delivers maximum ROI.

Empowering IT and FinOps Leaders

For senior IT and cloud leaders, CloudBolt provides assurance that cloud investments are under control, continuously optimized, and maximized for value. The platform’s automation and orchestration capabilities make it a true partner in driving business change.

FinOps leaders benefit from being at the forefront of technology and best practices, overcoming challenges related to attribution, visibility gaps, inefficient controls, and costly cloud overruns. CloudBolt’s precision-driven optimization and tailored logic help transform operational control without stifling innovation.

Achieving Peak Cloud Efficiency

CloudBolt’s actionable insights and automation elevate optimization opportunities into transformational outcomes. The platform offers a single pane of glass for viewing the efficiency health of the entire cloud estate, providing users with the tools to analyze and quickly remediate cost anomalies.

Custom Recommendation Logic and Intelligent Automation

CloudBolt’s advanced service advisor engine is personalized to each organization’s unique needs, offering tailored rightsizing analysis, instance class configuration, and idle resource analysis. The platform’s intelligent automation capabilities ensure precise and efficient resource management, with features like centralized management, proactive notifications, and dry run testing for risk-free implementations. 

Maximizing Cloud Savings

Centralizing the management of cloud reservations and savings plans, CloudBolt enables organizations to model future purchases, monitor current commitments, and track upcoming renewals. This continuous optimization approach ensures sustained efficiency and cost-effectiveness in cloud resource management.

The CloudBolt Advantage

CloudBolt is not just a technology provider; it is a strategic partner in the journey towards optimized cloud financial management. With its advanced Augmented FinOps solution, CloudBolt helps organizations navigate the complexities of cloud computing, ensuring maximum ROI and operational efficiency. By embracing the principles of FASTER and leveraging cutting-edge AI/ML technologies, CloudBolt is shaping the future of cloud financial management, one day at a time.

Craig Hinkley, Chief Executive Officer

“Making better decisions in the cloud require a full lifecycle approach to FinOps. Combining retrospective analysis with proactive mechanisms, CloudBolt enables your team to make better-performing cloud decisions.”