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CloudZero helps businesses optimize cloud spend with full visibility into costs—so they can reduce wasteful spending and improve their unit economics. Unlike other solutions, we take an engineering-led approach to cost optimization, helping teams understand what drives 100% of their operational cloud spend, empowering them to reduce risk, minimize waste, and maximize profit.

Most enterprises can report what AI cost them. Far fewer can say which team owns it, whether it was approved, or what it returned. FinOpsly closes that gap. The platform governs AI spend on the same cost model that carries the cloud, data platform and SaaS an AI workload consumes, so a business unit sees the full cost of an AI initiative instead of four disconnected bills. Capabilities include: Cost estimation before deployment. Model an architecture and get a priced workload across model APIs, GPU capacity, warehouse consumption and storage, with the assumptions on screen. Weigh model choices against consumption you have actually measured. Attribution that holds up in a chargeback cycle. Spend resolves to owners, teams, applications, business units and customers through hierarchies nine or more levels deep. Tagging is standardized across providers, keys and resources are labeled in bulk from plain-language rules, and whatever remains unattributed is published as a number, not absorbed. Guardrails that act. Set budgets by project, team or API key. Catch anomalies with root cause and route them to whoever owns the resource. Surface waste that provider tooling misses, using FinOpsly's own detection models. Plan commitments across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Park idle compute on approved schedules, reversibly. Financial results you can defend. Automated chargeback in a single cycle. Savings measured as what reached run-rate against a no-action baseline. Unit economics down to cost per call, per active user and per customer served. For technology and finance leaders accountable for what AI spend returns.

Stonebranch’s Universal Automation Center (UAC) is a Hybrid IT automation platform, offering real-time management of tasks and processes within hybrid IT settings, encompassing both on-premises and cloud environments. As a versatile software platform, UAC streamlines and coordinates your IT and business operations, while ensuring the secure administration of file transfers and centralizing IT job scheduling and automation solutions. Powered by event-driven automation technology, UAC empowers you to achieve instantaneous automation throughout your entire hybrid IT landscape. Enjoy real-time hybrid IT automation for diverse environments, including cloud, mainframe, distributed, and hybrid setups. Experience the convenience of Managed File Transfers (MFT) automation, effortlessly managing and orchestrating file transfers between mainframes and systems, seamlessly connecting with AWS or Azure cloud services.

Diplomat MFT from Coviant Software is a secure and scalable managed file transfer platform that replaces manual scripts and outdated FTP with reliable, automated file delivery. It supports secure protocols like SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS, and AS2, and integrates easily with cloud services including AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, SharePoint, Dropbox, and more. Trusted for over 20 years without a single breach, Diplomat MFT helps organizations meet compliance standards like HIPAA, HITECH, GLBA, PCI/DSS, GDPR, and DORA. Advanced security features include automated PGP encryption, MFA, IP whitelisting, and threat intelligence scanning. Still using insecure or outdated tools for critical file transfers? Diplomat MFT is the smarter alternative. Built to simplify operations, close compliance gaps, and protect your most sensitive data. Start your free trial today.

Nexcess is a managed cloud hosting solution designed to streamline infrastructure while providing exceptional performance, security, and scalability for essential business applications. This platform integrates cloud hosting, networking, compliance, application management, and automation into a cohesive environment, thereby eliminating the necessity of coordinating multiple vendors or tools. It effectively reduces operational complexities, allowing expert teams to manage orchestration, security, system uptime, and maintenance, which empowers users to concentrate on developing and expanding their applications. With dedicated computing resources, Nexcess guarantees consistent performance and cost predictability, complemented by fixed-cost billing that alleviates the uncertainties typically linked to public cloud services. Furthermore, it incorporates comprehensive governance and compliance functionalities that adhere to standards like HIPAA and PCI-DSS, alongside ongoing security monitoring, firewalls, and DDoS mitigation. Ultimately, Nexcess not only enhances operational efficiency but also ensures that businesses can scale securely and confidently in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Dragonfly serves as a seamless substitute for Redis, offering enhanced performance while reducing costs. It is specifically engineered to harness the capabilities of contemporary cloud infrastructure, catering to the data requirements of today’s applications, thereby liberating developers from the constraints posed by conventional in-memory data solutions. Legacy software cannot fully exploit the advantages of modern cloud technology. With its optimization for cloud environments, Dragonfly achieves an impressive 25 times more throughput and reduces snapshotting latency by 12 times compared to older in-memory data solutions like Redis, making it easier to provide the immediate responses that users demand. The traditional single-threaded architecture of Redis leads to high expenses when scaling workloads. In contrast, Dragonfly is significantly more efficient in both computation and memory usage, potentially reducing infrastructure expenses by up to 80%. Initially, Dragonfly scales vertically, only transitioning to clustering when absolutely necessary at a very high scale, which simplifies the operational framework and enhances system reliability. Consequently, developers can focus more on innovation rather than infrastructure management.

Josys is an AI-native identity security and governance platform built for the age of enterprise AI. As AI adoption accelerates, identity has become the fastest-growing attack surface and the hardest to govern. Josys discovers, governs, and secures every identity in the enterprise, human, machine, and AI agent, across every application. Its policy-led model lets security and IT teams set access policies once and enforce them autonomously: risk gets surfaced, access gets controlled, and identity threats get remediated in real time, with no manual oversight required. Over 1,000 organizations and MSPs worldwide trust Josys to turn identity from a liability into an autonomously governed advantage. Learn more at josys.com.

AI-driven solutions for credit-to-cash powered by Dun & Bradstreet’s global data and analytics. D&B Finance Analytics offers AI-driven solutions backed by the Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud. D&B Finance Analytics is a flexible, easy-to-use tool that helps finance teams reduce costs, improve customer service, and manage risk. Manage credit and receivables risks to minimize bad debts, reduce DSO and improve cash flow. Automate manual decisioning and monitoring, customer communication, and matching. Offer your customers an online credit application as well as a payment portal. D&B Finance Analytics consists of two platforms: D&B Credit Intelligence and D&B®, Receivables Intelligence. Together, they provide powerful insights and technologies to help you accelerate your success throughout all your credit-to cash processes. You can quickly gain visibility into credit risks, onboard customers, and set the right terms.

FuelCloud is a fuel technology company building the future of Fuel Management Systems for monitoring and managing bulk fuel supplies. By combining four generations of fuel industry knowledge with the latest innovations in cloud computing and mobile technology, FuelCloud's Fuel Management Systems deliver cardlock-level control at backyard prices. The result is a powerful yet affordable Fuel Management System that protects fuel from loss and theft, streamlines reporting and management, and puts you in control of your fuel. The heart of FuelCloud's system is the cloud-based web portal. From the web portal, managers can track transactions and tank volumes, control who can access fuel (and how much they can have), and automate creating and delivering reports The web portal also integrates your bulk fuel data with your other fleet and business management software, helping to create a complete data picture of your fleet operations from tank to tailpipe.

OpenMetal delivers hosted private cloud and bare metal infrastructure for organizations that have outgrown public cloud pricing or need more control than a hyperscaler will give them. Built on OpenStack and Ceph, our platform gives you a fully managed private cloud without the cost and complexity of building your own from the ground up. You get dedicated hardware, root-level access, and a transparent fixed-cost model so your infrastructure bill stays predictable as your workloads grow. Need bare metal without the private cloud overhead? Our dedicated bare metal servers deploy in minutes and can run standalone or integrate directly with an OpenMetal private cloud. Same fixed pricing, same dedicated hardware, no shared resources. OpenMetal is built for engineering teams, DevOps, and infrastructure leads who are done deciphering complex cloud bills and being financially punished for their growth.