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

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.

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 […]
The Model Was Cheap. Everything Around It Wasn’t.

The AI team came to the cost review with good news. The pilot was faster than the process it replaced, users liked it, and the model invoice was lower than expected. Then finance asked why the rest of the cloud bill had grown by several times that amount. The dashboards came out. The model team showed […]