OpenOps is going Open Source. Why this is important:

If you haven't heard, you clearly have been busy on something important! Here are some great advantages of this change to OpenOps GTM strategy.

1. Greater Collaboration & Innovation – Open-sourcing OpenOps allows the FinOps and GreenOps communities to collaborate on features, integrations, and best practices. This accelerates innovation in both cost optimization and cloud sustainability efforts.

2. Standardization & Interoperability – OpenOps as an open-source framework promotes industry-wide adoption of common standards, ensuring seamless integration across FinOps, GreenOps, and cloud provider sustainability metrics.

3. Transparency & Trust – Open source projects provide visibility into how cost and sustainability optimizations are calculated, increasing trust in recommendations for financial and environmental efficiency.

4. Customization & Flexibility – Organizations can adapt OpenOps to align with both FinOps and GreenOps goals, enabling them to optimize cloud spend while also reducing carbon footprint through custom policies and automation.

5. Community-Driven Enhancements – The global community can now contribute sustainability-focused improvements, such as energy-efficient workload scheduling, carbon-aware auto-scaling, and greener cloud provider selection.

This shift ensures OpenOps evolves into a dual-purpose framework—advancing financial and environmental cloud optimization through open collaboration. ????

We look forward to collaborating with OpenOps and the growing community to drive value for our customers around the globe.