What impact does AI have on cloud and data cloud spend?
Ask your FinOps team or anyone in finance what has hit the budget hardest this year and the answer is likely to be the same: AI. AI’s impact on cloud spend and data cloud spend isn’t a five-year-out...
View ArticleAnthropic Mythos and AdminStudio: Accelerating the journey from vulnerability...
AI has changed the vulnerability landscape Anthropic’s Project Glasswing demonstrates how AI can help defenders identify software vulnerabilities faster and at a scale that would be difficult to...
View ArticleWhy AI spending is the fastest-growing part of IT budgets
Key AI spending statistics (2026): Only 31% of organizations have accurate visibility into their AI software spend, and 59% say wasted AI spend increased over the past year (Flexera, 2026 State of...
View ArticleEvolving our approach to corporate social responsibility
With Give Back as one of our core values, our corporate social responsibility strategy is key to our culture. At Flexera, we’ve been taking a close look at how our CSR efforts can evolve to meet...
View ArticleCloud cost management isn’t just about cutting waste: What 5 years of...
Key takeaways Cloud spending has skyrocketed over the past five years, with 76% of large enterprises spend more than $5 million monthly on the cloud. This makes financial accountability and governance...
View ArticleShadow AI 101: What it is and how to detect and govern it in 2026
Somewhere in your company right now, someone is pasting sensitive data into a consumer AI chatbot. Or using an external AI tool or AI model without approval. Or wiring an AI agent into internal...
View ArticleAdminStudio recognized again as a ComponentSource Top 50 Publisher and Top...
We are proud to announce that AdminStudio has once again been recognized by ComponentSource as a Top 50 Publisher for 2026 and Top 100 Product for 2026. This achievement reflects our commitment to...
View Article5 AI governance lessons public sector leaders can learn from enterprises
Key takeaways AI adoption is accelerating across public and private sector organizations, but public sector leaders face a different bar: governance, transparency, risk management and accountability...
View ArticleBest practices for making ServiceNow execution-ready for AI and automation
Takeaways Automation capability isn’t the same as execution-readiness. ServiceNow can orchestrate action at scale, that’s its core function. Safe execution depends on trusted data, embedded controls,...
View ArticleBest practices for building trusted data foundations: Flexera webinar recap
As organizations scale cloud, SaaS, and AI initiatives, platforms like ServiceNow have become the operational backbone of IT. From change management to service delivery, the CMDB is expected to power...
View ArticleWhy AI pilot purgatory is really a visibility problem
Key takeaways: AI adoption is accelerating across the public sector, but many organizations are still struggling to move beyond pilots because they lack visibility into where AI is being used, who...
View ArticleWhat’s New at Flexera: July 2026
The July 2026 Flexera releases help organizations gain greater visibility, control, and confidence across technology spend, IT assets, infrastructure, and security operations. New capabilities include...
View ArticleCloud sustainability starts where optimization decisions happen
A shift-left mindset for cloud sustainability means moving environmental impact closer to the decisions that shape cloud usage. In FinOps, shift left means bringing cost awareness into architecture,...
View ArticleIT chargeback and showback: Why data center cost allocation is now a...
Quick answer IT chargeback and showback are two approaches to assigning data center and cloud costs to the teams that use them. Showback reports usage and cost without transferring the expense to a...
View Article5 FinOps practices you should apply to AI
Key Takeaways FinOps has evolved from cost control to value optimization, offering a proven framework for managing AI investments Organizations can avoid AI cost surprises by applying FinOps practices...
View ArticleAI cost governance: Why cost tools can’t tell you who spent what
AI cost governance in a nutshell The AI cost panic is loud, but it’s a symptom. The real problem is that we’ve built a generation of autonomous spenders and haven’t decided who governs the identities...
View ArticleHow Flexera One Data Cloud Optimization helps teams manage Databricks and...
Databricks and Snowflake are central to analytics, AI, machine learning, and data engineering work. The data cloud infrastructure behind those workloads has become an important part of the modern...
View ArticlePrompt caching breakdown: How it reduces token spend (2026)
Every single API call to a large language model (LLM) reprocesses your whole prompt from scratch. That prompt usually includes system instructions, tool definitions and your full chat history. In most...
View ArticleWhen AI budgets balloon: What enterprises are learning in 2026
AI was supposed to deliver efficiency. That was the promise that fueled aggressive investments across enterprises over the past few years. But a growing body of evidence tells a different story—one...
View ArticleIntroducing Flexera One Compliance Standards Intelligence: Compliance without...
Compliance in IT is no longer a periodic checkbox, it’s a continuous discipline. Whether your organization navigates DORA in Europe, NYDFS and FFIEC in the U.S. or APRA in Australia, regulators now...
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