Tangoe, a provider of technology expense management solutions, has announced a new partnership with Kubex, an innovator in Kubernetes, GPU, and cloud optimization. This collaboration integrates Kubex’s automated resource optimization engine into Tangoe One Cloud, aiming to enhance Tangoe’s FinOps-certified platform with advanced insights, precise right-sizing recommendations, automation, and improved governance across multi-cloud and GPU-accelerated environments.
Enterprises continue to rapidly adopt cloud technologies, but the associated complexity in cost and infrastructure management is escalating. Industry estimates suggest that 20-30% of all cloud spending is wasteful, often due to idle resources, over-provisioning, and inefficient consumption. The deployment of Kubernetes, which automates the management of containerized applications, introduces further unpredictability, particularly as organizations expand into AI- and GPU-driven workloads.
Chris Ortbals, Chief Product Officer at Tangoe, stated, “Most large enterprises now operate in a multi-cloud environment with Kubernetes running critical applications, but the complexity has outpaced their ability to monitor and optimize it. By integrating the Kubex resource optimization engine into Tangoe One Cloud, we are providing organizations with a unified, FinOps-ready platform that pinpoints areas of over-resourcing and overspending and offers solutions. This also establishes a single system for managing Kubernetes alongside traditional IaaS, an area where many FinOps and ITEM platforms still operate in silos.”
Chuck Tatham, Chief Marketing Officer of Kubex, commented, “Customers seek continuous, automated optimization that is an integrated part of their infrastructure management stack. The combination of Kubex analytics with Tangoe’s FinOps workflows creates a powerful solution benefiting engineering, finance, and procurement through reduced manual effort, lower costs, and a single source of truth for resources. The integrated solution assists enterprises in optimizing Kubernetes, cloud, and AI/GPU without guesswork, while maintaining necessary performance levels.”
Through this technology integration, Tangoe One Cloud now features the Kubex resource optimization engine, providing continuous, automated recommendations to support IT, engineering, finance, and procurement teams in decision-making. Key capabilities include simplifying the management of both Kubernetes and IaaS resources, delivering ROI through cost-saving recommendations across five major cloud delivery modes—AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Kubernetes—all centralized within one platform with appropriate tagging, ownership, and consumption context. The platform offers continuous monitoring and analysis of usage for optimization opportunities.
For Kubernetes and AI workloads, the system provides smarter optimization. As organizations scale AI/ML pipelines and GPU-intensive applications, Kubex’s engine analyzes millions of resource combinations to offer precise right-sizing guidance for Kubernetes clusters, GPU instances, and containerized workloads. Automated cost governance and allocations are also included, with daily alerts for runaway costs, idle environments, and misconfigured services. Tangoe automates the flow of invoices and cost allocations into enterprise finance systems, streamlining approvals and chargebacks across cloud providers. AI-powered right-sizing recommendations evaluate workload patterns and cloud provider pricing schemas across more than one million potential combinations to identify immediate savings without compromising performance. Furthermore, the platform offers visibility into container environment health, identifying risks and inefficiencies in container and node-level resource allocations to prevent downtime. An AI Chat-based Agent combines Kubex’s optimization analytics with an interactive AI assistant, making Kubex’s capabilities accessible to a wider user base and designed to streamline decision-making and automation.
Channel partners currently delivering Tangoe One Cloud or other Tangoe solutions can expand their cloud optimization portfolios with these new capabilities. This enables partners to strengthen their role as trusted advisors by helping customers identify and eliminate unnecessary cloud spend, integrate FinOps best practices, improve governance across multi-cloud and Kubernetes, guide AI and GPU workload optimization with reliable data, consolidate tools, and accelerate time-to-value. These enhancements create new opportunities for partners to differentiate their services, deepen customer engagements, and extend value across the entire cloud lifecycle.
The combined Tangoe One Cloud and Kubex capabilities are immediately available for global enterprises and channel partners.
