Adrian Bridgwater

4 days ago | computerweekly.com | Adrian Bridgwater

The Computer Weekly Developer Network followed the FinOps Foundation to San Diego this month for just about the last technology conference before the summer recess. This was FinOps X 2025 and it was all about the cost of cloud (and now more) and the full set of tools, technologies and tribulations that circulate throughout this space. Before day one even kicked off, we can focus on FOCUS.

4 days ago | computerweekly.com | Adrian Bridgwater

A central part of the news stream at this year’s FinOps X conference in San Diego this week, the FinOps Foundation has detailed version 1.2 of the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS). FOCUS in an open specification for cloud cost and usage data. This release introduces support for SaaS and PaaS billing data, invoice-level reconciliation and multi-currency normalisation. The foundation wants to establish FOCUS as the “unified billing format” across today’s Cloud+ environments.

4 days ago | techzine.eu | Adrian Bridgwater

One of the Linux Foundation’s more vibrant project arms these days, the nonprofit FinOps Foundation has already been vocal on extending the scope of FinOps as we have known it thus far. The foundation explains that the FinOps Framework has been updated to reflect the “present-day practice” of FinOps, as it now evolves to a Cloud+ approach to managing technology spend.

5 days ago | techzine.eu | Adrian Bridgwater

Fifth most popular browser company Opera has struck up the orchestra to announce  Opera Neon, a new agentic browser that promises to rethink the role of the browser in the coming generation of the AI agentic web. While Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox lead Opera in market share, those stats are (arguably) skewed by mass-market non-technical users – Opera is thought to enjoy a stronger base of use among technologists, so this development could help the Norwegian company’s longer term status.

5 days ago | computerweekly.com | Adrian Bridgwater

After an extended sojourn on the road for the US spring/summer technology conference season, the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog is home in London for Aera Technology’s cofe UK gathering. AeraHUB 25 ‘The Decision Intelligence Summit’ is held on June 11 this year at The Brewery in EC1, a stone’s throw from the Barbican and a short breezy stroll from the City to the East.