October 15, 2025
Nobody asks for ROI on paying Verizon instead of building cell towers. But Finance wants ROI on Azure vs on-premises servers. The apps are the business. Azure is just the platform that runs them.
Azure
FinOps
Leadership
ROI
Business Value
October 15, 2025
Finance celebrates retiring 100 apps instead of migrating them. Six months later: Why are we still paying for the old data center? Because 'Retire' isn't a decision, it's a $300K decommissioning project nobody budgeted for.
Azure
Migration
FinOps
Decommissioning
ROI
October 15, 2025
Nobody questions paying Verizon instead of building cell towers. Apps on your phone = value. The network = enabler. Finance gets it. So why do they question the same model for Azure?
Azure
FinOps
Leadership
ROI
OpEx
October 14, 2025
Finance compares Azure VM costs to server costs and declares cloud expensive. They're missing the entire point: no VAR meetings, no hardware refresh, provision in minutes instead of months. The value isn't in the spreadsheet.
Azure
Migration
ROI
FinOps
Procurement
Leadership
