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Google Cloud Next 2026

Your GCP Costs Are Hiding
Opportunities. Let's Find Them.

FinOps to FinOps. Engineer to Engineer.
Get personalized recommendations for your Google Cloud environment in a 30 or 60-minute briefing.

April 23–24, 2026Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas30 or 60-Minute Briefings
Limited Availability — Only a Few Slots Remaining
Taylor Houck — FinOps Evangelist at PointFive

Meet Taylor Houck

FinOps Evangelist, PointFive

Taylor has helped hundreds of engineering and FinOps leaders uncover hidden cloud waste and build sustainable optimization practices. This isn't a sales pitch — it's a consulting conversation about your cloud.

Host, FinOps in Action Podcast
Founder, Cloud Efficiency Hub

Joined by a PointFive Solutions Engineer for technical deep-dives

What You'll Walk Away With

Personalized GCP Assessment

Analysis of your specific optimization landscape based on your environment profile

Real Customer Examples

See how organizations with similar GCP environments are finding and fixing hidden waste

Quick Wins Identified

Prioritized list of Effort 1, Risk 1 optimizations you can action immediately

“This is not a demo. It's a 1:1 consulting conversation about your cloud practice.”

FinOps in Action Podcast · 63+ Episodes

Trusted by the
FinOps Community

Taylor regularly connects with the industry's leading FinOps practitioners. Here are just some of the voices he's brought to the community.

SA

Sridhar Ayala

Adobe

MH

Marit Hughes

Deloitte

RT

Rick Triana

IHG Hotels

JC

Jarred Clore

Cisco

SW

Sherri Wooldridge

Carnival

TG

Trig Ghosh

Accenture

VL

Victoria Levy

Alteryx

TL

Tamara Lajara

SoftwareOne

LF

Loic Fournier

AWS

CB

Chandan B.

Procore

SD

Stijn Depril

Euroclear

RS

Rense Siegmund

Gasunie

GD

Gordon Douglass

SAP NS2

ZA

Zak Ali

Invesco

PF

Polly Fabry

Sysco

RM

Rohit Mishra

Avaloq

Guests from leading organizations

AdobeDeloitteCiscoIHG HotelsCarnivalAccentureAlteryxSoftwareOneAWSProcoreEuroclearSAPInvescoSyscoGasunieAvaloq

What's Hiding in
Your Google Cloud?

These are real findings from PointFive customers running on GCP. Every one of these is invisible to GCP's native tools.

Effort 1Risk 1
Seen in 78% of GCP environments

Missing Autoclass on GCS Buckets

GCP Recommender suggests per-object class changes but never recommends enabling Autoclass — which automates the entire process. One-line gcloud command to fix.

Effort 1Risk 1
Seen in 42% of GCP environments

Suboptimal GCS Soft Delete Policy

A relatively new GCP feature that defaults to 7-day retention. On high-churn buckets, costs compound silently. No native tool flags this.

Effort 1Risk 2
Seen in 65% of GCP environments

Underutilized Cloud SQL Storage

GCP Recommender handles CPU/memory rightsizing but doesn't separately analyze storage provisioning vs. actual usage. Over-provisioned storage is invisible.

Effort 2Risk 2
Seen in 38% of GCP environments

Suboptimal Managed Instance Group Types

Recommender only targets individual VMs. PointFive analyzes MIG templates and recommends machine type changes at the template level across all instances.

Effort 2Risk 1
Seen in 55% of GCP environments

Suboptimal Cloud Logging Architecture

Log routing and storage tier configurations that silently accumulate cost. No native tool analyzes Cloud Logging architecture for cost efficiency.

400+ Detections Across 7 Platforms

GCP is just the start. PointFive covers AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery.

Net Zero Guarantee

If we don't find more savings than our platform costs, you don't pay the difference. Most customers are ROI-positive in under 2 weeks.

Book Your Briefing

Meet Taylor at Google Cloud Next for a personalized walkthrough of PointFive's GCP detection capabilities.

12 slots remaining

All times in Pacific Time (PT). Taylor will confirm via email.

Can't Make It to Vegas?

No problem. Get a free, agentless assessment of your GCP environment — no event attendance required. Same deep analysis, same personalized recommendations.

10-day average time to ROI · 400+ detections · Net Zero Guarantee