Tag: Total Cost of Ownership

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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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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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How to Plan for a Breakup (with Your Monitoring Tool)

The Honeymoon Phase Is Over It started out great. The dashboards were shiny. The alerts were crisp. You felt seen.Every...

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Why B2B Software Licensing Is Broken for MSPs

And How We’re Fixing It. Running a Managed Service Provider (MSP) business means balancing constant client demands against tight margins....

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Cost Transparency in Databases: What We’re Hearing from the Frontlines

Last week we sat down with a group of database and FinOps for Data professionals from across industries to talk...