ZEPHYR GLOBE Consulting redefines FinOps with innovative cloud cost strategies, based on value, delivering optimized spending and financial clarity.

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Are These Your Challenges?

  • Raising cloud costs.
  • Lack of usage visibility.
  • Engineering teams not aligned with Finance.
  • Difficulty on connecting budget to variable cloud costs.
  • Need to establish a FinOps culture.

Our services are tailored to your company needs.

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FinOps Enablement
Help establishing your FinOps team.
Process and Tool Model.


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Purchase Strategy
Reserved Instances and Savings Plans.
CSP Negotiation.
Purchase tracking.

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Cost Optimization
Consumption Management.
Equity Resources.
Recommendations.
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Cost
Visibility
Cloud Cost Visualization.
Dashboard and Analisys.
Showback and Charge Back.

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FinOps Governance
Strategy and Policies.
Alerts and Monitoring.
KPI Tracking.


Our Services

You don’t need to reinvent the wheel. The time you’d spend figuring things out on your own can be significantly reduced with expert guidance. Tap into my experience and insights to apply directly to your unique circumstances. My approach isn’t about tearing down what you’ve built—it’s about refining, enhancing, and leveraging what already exists to drive greater success. Let’s build on your foundation and take it to the next level.

Low Cost FOCUS™ Cost Management Toolkit empowers FinOps practitioners to visualize cloud spending without technical complexity.

Easily analyze costs, uncover insights, and align financial decisions with business goals. No installation hassles—Simplify cost management and take control of your cloud expenses with confidence and ease. Start transforming your FinOps strategy today!

Low Cost FOCUS™ Cost Management Toolkit empowers FinOps practitioners to visualize cloud spending without technical complexity.

Easily analyze costs, uncover insights, and align financial decisions with business goals. No installation hassles—Simplify cost management and take control of your cloud expenses with confidence and ease. Start transforming your FinOps strategy today!

Online or in-person, fully structured or tailored—our FinOps training adapts to your needs. Learn from experienced professionals who’ve successfully implemented FinOps. Designed to foster a strong FinOps culture, our training enhances your team’s financial literacy, empowering them to optimize cloud costs and drive smarter financial decision-making with confidence.

How we work Together

Engage

  • You share your situation
  • You share your objectives
  • Pay for initial engagement

Action Plan

  • I perform an initial assessment
  • I present an action plan
  • We agree on success factors

Execution

  • We agree on Execution Fee
  • I execute in partnership with you
  • You are happy with the results. If not, we reiterate.

Acknowledgements

Gaurav G.

Luis D.

Alberto C.

Rui F.

On top of that, he’s been an active voice in the FinOps community, where he shows that he’s a born speaker and presenter.”

I’m the founder and solopreneur of ZEPHYR GLOBE. I’m a FinOps Pioneer, with extensive experience on FinOps adoption, Cost Optimization. Public Speaker and collaborator on major FinOps publications.

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Last posts

  • Cloud Hosting Cost Types

    One of the main advantages of a cloud environment is the great amount of data it produces about itself; be it regarding performance, security, reliability, usage, etc. The billing data is not behind on this matter. With millions of records produced every day, it is important to sort them out wisely so that the data…

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  • FinOps Europe Community Day

    On March 21st, 2023, I spoke at the first FinOps Community Day Europe in Amsterdam. Topics included challenges, reporting structure, sustainability, and notable projects and tools such as the FOCUS project and the FinOps Maturity Model. Networking and knowledge sharing were also highlighted.

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  • EVM: How to calculate in a FinOps context

    Earned Value Management (EVM) is applied to Cloud FinOps within the ‘Quantify Business Value’ domain. It uses Cost Performance Indicator (CPI) to assess if cloud spend delivers expected value. EVM condenses cost situation and business results into indicators, requiring early maturity in capabilities.

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  • FinOps Success Case – FARFETCH

    Farfetch’s IT arm, FTECH, achieved noteworthy cost optimization in 2023, spending €3.4M less than in 2022. Their FinOps approach, including cultural practices and cost-saving initiatives, resulted in significant successes. Looking ahead to 2024, they plan to build on these achievements.

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  • Cloud Hosting Blended Cost for Azure China

    The article addresses the need for a new cost type to match net total on Azure China invoices and fairly distribute commitment-based discounts across teams. It details the challenges and benefits of implementing blended cost calculation for Azure China.

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