The Model Was Cheap. Everything Around It Wasn’t.

A balance scale contrasting model price with the full cost of an AI service

The Model Was Cheap. Everything Around It Wasn’t. The first AI cost review rarely finds one expensive model. It finds an organization that never learned to count the system around it. The AI team came to the cost review with good news. The pilot was faster than the process it replaced, users liked it, and […]

FinOps Was Built for the Cloud. AI Has Other Plans.

Cloud, data center, edge, and device workload-placement choices

FinOps Was Built for the Cloud. AI Has Other Plans. How AI is turning workload placement into the next great optimization problem for enterprise infrastructure. For more than a decade, enterprise IT had a remarkably consistent answer to almost every infrastructure question. Move it to the cloud. The advice was not simplistic; it was usually […]