Author: Ben DeBow

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The Tech Debt Tax: Why Your “Quick Fixes” Cost More Than Your Cloud Bill

Technical debt isn’t a bug—it’s a FinOps feature in 2026. Time to treat it as strategic sabotage. Nobody wakes up...

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Ending the Era of Abundance: Why Databases Are Ground Zero for FinOps Optimization

Written by: Ben DeBow | Founder and CEO of Fortified | Author of End of Abundance in Tech As the...

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The FinOps Tipping Point: 10 Predictions That Will Define 2026

FinOps is at an inflection point. What started as cloud cost management is evolving into something bigger. It’s now a...

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Top 5 Reasons DBAs Choose WISdom Over Idera SQL Monitoring

Database Administrators (DBAs) know that choosing the right monitoring tool isn’t just about tracking performance—it’s about having the right insights...

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Tech Debt Is Eating Your Cloud Budget

Let’s be real about technical debt – it’s costing your organization way more than you think, and it’s getting worse...

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Part 5: Database Professionals. The Forgotten Stewards of Data.

Written by: Ben DeBow | Founder and CEO of Fortified | Author of End of Abundance in Tech Blog Series: The Evolution...

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Part 4: The Billion-Dollar Blind Spot in Enterprise IT. Rethinking Monitoring and Observability.

Written by: Ben DeBow | Founder and CEO of Fortified | Author of End of Abundance in Tech Blog Series: The Evolution...

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Part 2: Efficiency Mindset in Technology: Complex vs. Non-Complex Systems

Written by: Ben DeBow | Founder and CEO of Fortified | Author of End of Abundance in Tech Blog Series: The Evolution...