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We analyzed 700+ enterprise cloud environments. 200+ PB of storage capacity. Every major cloud, every major industry. The average disk utilization? 30%. That means over two-thirds of every dollar enterprises spend on cloud block storage is going to empty buffer space. Here are some key breakdowns: → Azure: 27.9% avg utilization. GCP: 28.4%. AWS leads at 37.8%  → Linux VMs average just 22%, 15 points lower than Windows  → No industry averages above 40%. → 8–10% of disks are overutilized and at active downtime risk The problem is universal, and not related to any industry or architectural choice. Disk shrinking in production environments is operationally risky and manually intensive. The penalty for undershooting storage (downtime) is always worse than overshooting (wasted spend). So teams overprovision and the waste compounds indefinitely. Storage already represents 15–30% of total cloud bills. And unlike compute, data is persistent. The line item only grows. The State of Cloud Storage 2026 is out now. Full breakdown by provider, OS, region, VM type, and industry. Read here: https://lnkd.in/gsy6YYfP #CloudStorage #FinOps #CloudCosts #AWS #Azure #GCP

Most enterprises have no idea how much of their cloud block storage spend is pure waste. The industry average disk utilization is just 30%, meaning up to 70% of cloud block storage budgets are being wasted every month. Yet cloud provider portals give teams almost no visibility into actual usage, making it nearly impossible to identify or act on the problem at scale. Today, Lucidity is launching Assessment, a free, self-serve tool that gives enterprises a unified view of their cloud block storage environment in just 15 minutes, with no agents to deploy. Key capabilities: ✅ Unified dashboard: disk utilization, orphan disks, IOPS metrics, and highest-spend VMs ✅ Personalized savings report showing exactly where you can cut waste ✅ Agentless setup with no vendor calls and no commitment required Over 700 enterprises have already run Assessments across hundreds of petabytes of capacity. Now any organization can do it self-serve. Learn more about Lucidity Assessment: https://lnkd.in/gmdSyC7K

Them: What is your takeaway from the game organized for the USA team? Us: Our USA team can handle any challenge... except for their teammates shouting 'BINGO!' first! #LifeAtLucidity #Lucigang #EmployeeEngagement #TeamCulture #WorkplaceVibes  

Cloud cost management is changing - fast! AI-driven workloads, unpredictable scaling, and continuously expanding infrastructure are pushing teams beyond dashboards and manual optimization. On April 15, we’re diving into what comes next. The Autonomous FinOps Era: From Dashboards to Decisions With Dieter Matzion (Roku) and Raj Dutt (Lucidity), we’ll explore how teams are moving from visibility to prediction — and increasingly, to automated decision-making. If you’re working across cloud, infrastructure, or cost - this shift is already underway. 📅 April 15, 2026 ⏰ 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET Register here → https://lnkd.in/dfgeAMnB #CloudComputing #FinOps #CloudOps #Automation #CloudCost #TechLeaders #Lucidity

London, that was something. 🍻 An evening with some of the sharpest minds in the cloud - and it turned out exactly how we’d hoped. Set at Mosimann’s Private Dining Club, the night was all about good energy - great food, a fun tasting experience, and conversations that just kept flowing. Plenty of catching up, easy conversations, and the kind of atmosphere where people could just relax and enjoy the evening. Big thanks to everyone who made it - and to our partners at Finout for bringing this together with us. Already looking forward to the next one! #CloudLeaders #StorageOptimisation #CloudCommunity #FinOps #CloudOps #TechLeaders #LondonTech #Networking #Lucidity

The most important FinOps skill isn’t financial or technical. It’s empathy. As David, Senior Staff, Cloud Planning Engineering at Celonis, shared in our webinar: FinOps' most vital role is to serve as an empathetic bridge between the CFO (focused on budget) and the CTO (focused on delivery). The bridge? Shared technical-financial KPIs. Metrics like requests per vCPU translate engineering efficiency into financial impact, aligning performance, cost, and business goals on the same scorecard. Curious how to turn KPIs into alignment tools? Watch the on-demand webinar now: https://lnkd.in/gfDduNqe #CloudStrategy #FinOps #TechLeadership

Cloud cost management is evolving but many organizations are still operating reactively. Visibility is improving. Collaboration is increasing. But automation is where real maturity begins. At Lucidity, we believe storage optimization should be continuous, policy-driven, and intelligent by design, not dependent on tickets and periodic audits. If you're thinking about the next stage of FinOps maturity, it might be time to rethink how storage is managed. #FinOps #CloudCost #CloudStrategy #EnterpriseIT #CloudOptimization #NoOps

Growing looks good on us. And #TeamLucidity just got a whole lot better...... Excited to have Krishna Chaitanya Dammalapati, Nikhil Sarode, Satyesh Anand, Apoorv Singhai, SNEHA SURENDRAN, and Tirthankar Saha aboard us this quarter as we step into new beginnings and fresh perspectives! #WelcomeAboard #LifeAtLucidity #NewJoiners

Dashboards stopped being enough the moment AI hit your cloud. Your FinOps model, built for static workloads, is cracking under dynamic infrastructure, unpredictable GPU spikes, and autonomous storage. Reactive reporting simply can't keep pace. Join us for 'The Autonomous FinOps Era: From Dashboards to Decisions' on April 15, 2026, 11 AM PST. 💡 Uncover the shift from visibility to predictive automation. 🧠 Learn how AI workloads are breaking traditional budgeting models. ⚡️ Discover the role of human oversight and how FinOps teams must evolve. Don't just observe your cloud spend. Master it. Register now: https://lnkd.in/gHdcGZtu #FinOps #CloudCostOptimization #AIinFinOps #AutonomousFinOps #AWSFinOps #AzureFinOps #GCPFinOps #CloudOps #Lucidity

We often talk about sustainable cloud in terms of provider commitments. But sustainability is also shaped by how intelligently we consume infrastructure. Storage is one of the most overlooked levers. At enterprise scale, even marginal inefficiencies compound across regions, environments, and workloads. Smart storage management aligns cost efficiency with environmental responsibility, without disrupting performance. The question is no longer whether clouds can scale. It’s whether it can scale intelligently. #Lucidity #CloudStorage #FinOps #CloudCostOptimization #BlockStorage #AWS #Azure #AutoScaler #CloudSustainability