PointFive was founded to enable organizations to manage their cloud spend through continuous cost optimization. We work hard to make this possible, and ensure our customers can easily implement recommendations.
Part of how we do it is with our 5x Research Team. They work tirelessly behind the scenes to dive deep into cloud-based data to uncover inconsistencies and optimization opportunities, and stay up-to-date on the latest industry trends to ensure our customers can meet their cloud optimization goals.
Born of the need for organizations to have a team of cloud inefficiency hunters, PointFive created the 5x Research Team.
The 5x Research Team, affectionately known as the “5x Team,” is comprised of a unique group of FinOps/Cloud researchers and specialists. The X factor of PointFive, they describe themselves as thorough, unique, and versatile, always eager to jump into the “dirty water” of cloud-based data to help customers get the most value on their journey to total cloud cost efficiency.
The team researches various data points — including cloud billing and usage data, complex cost and ROI calculations, performance considerations, cloud tooling limitations, and marginal edge cases — to uncover actionable savings opportunities. This fuels the DeepWaste Detection technology customers enjoy with the PointFive platform.
The 5x Team is driven by three primary guidelines: accuracy, actionability, and impact. These guidelines provide direction for the Team’s efforts to curate the overwhelming insights organizations could produce from the PointFive platform into action.
In fact, their insights are molded directly into the PointFive platform so customers can benefit from their research and expertise with a click of a button across every application and every environment.
An internal research team at a cloud cost optimization company may seem a bit out of place, but, according to CEO Alon Arvatz, it is the way of the future.
The PointFive leadership team comes from a cybersecurity background, where staying on top of the cat-and-mouse game is crucial. In the context of cloud cost optimization, the 5x Team treats cloud inefficiencies in the same manner they would treat security threats.
For example, instead of security hygiene, the team focuses on cost hygiene, addressing this new challenge with the same approach that works in the security industry: being deep, fast, accurate, and actionable. Doing so ensures the team, and by extension, the customers, can avoid alert fatigue and false-positives floods while also reducing the “attack surface” of cost inefficiencies.
The 5x Team is always on the hunt for new inefficiencies, which can take several forms:
The 5x Team is exactly what organizations need today. Organizations need someone to help with that last mile, to go beyond the “inform” phase. They need human, engineer-vetted insights to get platform engineers closer to the “Act” phase.
In fact, the 5x Team recently worked with a PointFive customer with hundreds of millions in annual cloud spend. The Team detected novel inefficiencies that went undetected for years, which led to millions of dollars in savings.
What makes the 5x Team PointFive’s X factor is that it effectively harnesses specialist knowledge into a scalable product. Think of the 5x Team as a virtual FinOps team replicated to every customer in a scalable way.
This is partly how the Team got its name. “5x” not only implies a multiplier to the value one could get from a cost efficiency platform, but it also alludes to the network effect of the Team’s unique findings. Each value-add that the 5x Team creates for one customer is immediately replicated and extended to the rest of the customer base.
This is enabled by our unique architecture that streamlines our detections across all of our customers’ environments.
Rather than investing significant resources to build your own team, take advantage of the 5x Research Team. Comprised of a group of experts who spend their time and effort working for PointFive customers around the clock to surface new saving opportunities through the PointFive platform, they have your best interest at heart.
Book a demo to learn more about the cloud cost optimization opportunities that await you with the PointFive platform as a result of the 5x Research Team’s unique insights and deep data analysis.
