Join us online on April 23, 2026, at 11:00 am ET.

Federal agencies have invested billions in cloud modernization, yet many still struggle to answer a fundamental question: what are we actually paying for? A recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) highlighted widespread cloud cost overruns across civilian agencies, driven by duplicated services, idle “zombie” workloads, and limited visibility into unit-level economics. At the same time, CFOs face mounting pressure from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to prove fiscal accountability, while CIOs work to align cloud investments with mission outcomes. The result is a growing credibility gap that puts future modernization funding at risk.
 

The challenge is structural. Cloud costs are dynamic, multi-dimensional, and dispersed across teams that lack a shared financial framework. Legacy budgeting models built for on-premises environments simply cannot keep pace. Without real-time cost transparency, agencies overprovision resources, miss rightsizing opportunities, and allow inefficiencies to compound quarter after quarter.

IBM’s FinOps portfolio delivers a unified financial control plane purpose-built for this environment:
- Apptio: IT financial management and cost transparency
- Cloudability: Multi-cloud cost intelligence and optimization insights
- Turbonomic: AI-driven resource performance and cost optimization
- Kubecost: Granular Kubernetes cost allocation and visibility
 

Together, these solutions connect every dollar to a workload, team, and mission outcome—enabling agencies to move from reactive cost-cutting to proactive financial governance and establish the unit economics framework OMB now expects.

Attendees will leave with:
- A practical FinOps adoption roadmap aligned to federal procurement realities
- Real-world agency examples demonstrating 25–40% cloud waste reduction
- A clear blueprint for building the financial transparency layer leadership needs to protect and defend modernization budgets

Speaker: Bob Carter, Apptio Vice President Of Public Sector