FinOps prices the rooms, ITAM manages the hotel
FinOps is getting better at making data centre costs visible. Unit costs, rate cards and like-for-like comparisons with cloud help the business make clearer decisions.
But cost transparency on its own is not enough. Someone still has to manage the estate behind the numbers.
Contracts, licences, asset lifecycle and risk determine whether the baseline cost of the data centre is sensible in the first place, and whether it stays that way over time.
In this article, I use a simple hotel analogy to explain where FinOps stops, where ITAM starts, and why governance is the missing piece if organisations want real, sustainable control of data centre cost and risk.
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