Videos

A CIO who's been there — in his own words.

Former CIO of Raytheon Legacy and RTX, AJ Jones, talks through the IT financial challenges that led to FogLifter® — inaccurate chargebacks, sprawling infrastructure, and what changed when the data became trustworthy.

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Customer Story Running IT Like a Business — A CIO's Perspective Watch on YouTube

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1 ~1 min

You Can't Manage What You're Not Measuring

AJ Jones describes inheriting a sprawling infrastructure and the core problem: business units pushing back on inaccurate chargeback bills with no reliable data to settle the dispute.

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2 ~1 min

Why IT Chargebacks Were Creating Distrust

Business units were receiving bills for storage that had been decommissioned months earlier. Without visibility from infrastructure all the way through to the invoice, automated billing just passed on inaccurate numbers.

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3 ~1 min 40 sec

How FogLifter Delivered Immediate Results

Once reports started coming in, AJ's team could immediately validate their asset counts, check SLA delivery, and get accurate bills to business units on time — shifting from a reactive firefighting posture to a trusted internal service provider.

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4 ~2 min 10 sec

Building Trust Between IT and the Business

AJ explains how accurate, on-time invoices changed the relationship between corporate IT and business units — from one of tension and suspicion to a collaborative partnership where business units started bringing IT into strategic planning.

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5 ~1 min 5 sec

The Hidden Cost of Sprawling Infrastructure

Through mergers, acquisitions, and leadership changes, asset visibility gets lost organically. This clip covers how FogLifter pulls together sprawling infrastructure data — and how NLQ lets teams ask plain-language questions about what they have right now.

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6 ~40 sec

Turning IT Into a Strategic Partner

When bills are accurate and trusted, business units stop challenging IT and start asking it for help. AJ describes the moment the relationship shifted — from cost center to strategic partner helping the business meet its financial targets.

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7 ~1 min 30 sec

Strategic Planning Through Better Visibility

Visibility into device age and utilisation patterns turned FogLifter into a planning tool. AJ explains how the data helped his team identify ageing racks that needed replacing — and build the business case to fund it — rather than endlessly patching failing systems.

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8 ~1 min 30 sec

Running IT Like a Business

What does it actually mean to run IT like a P&L? AJ describes how FogLifter gave his team the reporting discipline — chargeback accuracy, decommission tracking, consumption visibility — that senior leadership expects from every other function in the organization.

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9 ~27 sec

How CIOs Earn a Seat at the Table

A concise, direct answer: the ability to walk into a room and say "I know my business" — backed by data — is what puts IT on equal footing with finance, operations, and engineering at the leadership table.

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10 ~1 min 45 sec

Technology Business Management in Practice

TBM isn't a framework — it's a discipline. AJ explains how FogLifter operationalises it: answering what you have, what you need, and how to get there, with the credibility to justify future investment requests to the CFO and COO.

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Resource & Educational Videos

Short platform walkthroughs from the FogLifter resource library — for a quick look at the product without a live session.

Video · 2 mins

FogLifter® - The Engine Behind IT's Most Trusted Data Platform

Short walkthroughs and guided previews that explain how FogLifter® moves from raw data to decision-ready answers.

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Video · 3 mins

FogLifter®- The Fix for IT's Biggest Hidden Problem

From data ingestion to validated answers — a concise walkthrough of the operating model, the ontology layer, and where AI fits in.

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