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FinOps has become a thing over the past four to five years as enterprises began to grip on their cloud spending across the board from infrastructure to SaaS software. FinOps was a long time coming and built on pioneering work a decade ago to bring cloud economics into view.

Now we face a new era in FinOps as enterprises ramp up their spending on AI infrastructure services and applications. What is the state of FinOps in an era of AI?

Hyoun Park, CEO and Principal Analyst at Amalgam Insights joins Leonard Lee of neXt Curve to discuss his insights and key findings from FinOpsX and Databrick Data & AI Summit 2025.

Hyoun and Leonard hit on the following topics:

➡️ FinOpsX and Databricks Data & AI Summit 2025 (3:07)
➡️ The State of FinOps (4:39)
➡️ Cloud Migration Behaviors Today (8:29)
➡️ NeoCloud FinOps and Economics (12:07)
➡️ Databricks Data & AI Summit 2025 (17:30)
➡️ Shift from AI, AI, AI to Data and Good Ole' Analytics (17:43)
➡️ Rolling Your Own Model is Passe (22:45)
➡️ Where Do We Land With FinOps and AI Next Year? (24:35)

Connect with Hyoun on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/hyounpark. You can also follow him at www.amalgaminsights.com. Also, check out his podcast, "This Week in Enterprise Tech"

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After two extremely dense and informative days of Cisco's analyst program at Cisco Live! 2025 which too place in San Diego, Leonard Lee of neXt Curve and Maribel Lopez of Lopez Research sat down in the analyst forum plenary ballroom to tape what was supposed to be a greeting video to Jo Peterson, a mutual friend who has been on the neXt Curve podcast. Hi, Jo!

The analyst relations team at Cisco put on a fantastic program this year to give analyst the opportunity to engage with the Cisco executives who were amazingly generous with their time. Maribel and Leonard provide share highlights from two-days of session, roundtables, 1-on-1 briefings, and announcement-packed keynotes.

Maribel and Leonard hit on the following topics:

➡️ Everyone is talking about AI. How is Cisco talking about it? (2:20)

➡️ Network and security convergence (4:00)

➡️ Platformization - the value and the challenges for Cisco (6:18)

➡️ Balancing of consolidation and integration on the road to pjatformization (9:21)

➡️ The great hope and the great threat of agentic AI (12:05)

Connect with Maribel Lopez on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/maribellopez. You can also follow her on X at @maribellopez, and at www.lopezresearch.com.

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Jim McGregor of TIRIAS Research joined neXt Curve to cover the first half of another action-packed month in the world of semiconductors and accelerated and non-accelerated computing on the neXt Curve reThink Podcast series, Silicon Futures. The duo also shared their thoughts on IBM THINK 2025, CadenceLIVE 2025, and other events of note in the first half of May.

This episode covers the follow topics:

➡️ Highlights and key takes from CadenceLIVE 2025
➡️ Jim's recap of IBM Think 2025
➡️ Highlights and key takes from Google I/O and Microsoft Build 2025
➡️ Highlights and key takes from COMPUTEX 2025 and Dell Tech World
➡️ Highlights of May 2025 including HUMAIN and AI Middle East
➡️ Celebrating 40 years of Qualcomm!

Hit Leonard, and Jim up on LinkedIn and take part in their industry and tech insights.

Check out Jim and his research at Tirias Research at www.tiriasresearch.com.
Check out Karl and his research at Cambrian AI Research LLC at www.cambrian-ai.com.

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