Tag: FinOps

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WISdom + Claude: Use AI to Analyze SQL Server Telemetry

Every Monday, somebody asks the DBA team a version of the same question: what got more expensive last week, and...

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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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Hyperscalers Are Costing You Millions (And They Know It)

In the race to the cloud, we’ve built an ecosystem of abundance—vast data centers, endless scalability, and a buffet of virtual...

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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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Fortified Completes SOC 2 Type II Audit

Strengthening trust for customers running critical data workloads with an independent audit validating security, availability, and confidentiality controls over time....

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How DBAs Prove Their Value at Work in 2026

For decades, the value of a DBA was defined by reliability. Keep systems running. Fix performance problems. Prevent outages. That...

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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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Fortified WISdom Now Available in the Microsoft Marketplace 

For Release 9 am EST.Monday, November 4, 2025 Charlotte, NC – MONTH DAY, 2025 – Fortified today announced the availability...