Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

March 2024

anodot

20 Best Cloud Monitoring Tools to Optimize Performance & Revenue

Mar 31, 2024 By Perry Tapiero In Anodot
As of 2023, 89% of companies rely on a multi-cloud approach. Operating in the cloud is no longer a plus but a competitive necessity. Migrating from a fully on-prem to a hybrid or fully cloud environment isn’t exactly easy though, especially given the impenetrability of cloud data. Cloud monitoring enables your company to be proactive about its cloud services, ensuring that availability, security, performance, and other aspects are all up to par before reaching the end-user.
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cloudzero

AI's Role In Streamlining Kubernetes Operations For Better Cost Management

Mar 29, 2024 By Alexander Ospina In CloudZero
While many of us have already heard of Kubernetes, or may even be leveraging it within our technology stacks, it’s still important to remember that the platform is undergoing massive adoption and evolvement. Due to its relative infancy, Kubernetes is ripe to allow for integrating new technologies, like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). As an open-source platform, Kubernetes orchestrates containerized applications, ensuring they run efficiently and resiliently.
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tidal

How We Slashed Our AWS Costs by 50% (And You Can Too!)

Mar 28, 2024 By Prem Rara, Krystle Khoo In Tidal
As businesses increasingly move their workloads to the cloud, managing cloud costs has become a critical concern. At Tidal.Cloud, with the roll-out of new features such as Tidal Accelerator’s Business Analytics, we recently realized that our AWS costs were steadily increasing, and we needed to take action to optimize our cloud spending.
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tidal

Migration and Modernization Insights with New Business Analytics Feature

Mar 28, 2024 By Krystle Khoo In Tidal
Tidal Accelerator has recently made its powerful Business Analytics feature generally available across all existing and new workspaces, as discussed in our previous article. This game-changing capability empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions throughout their migration and modernization journeys. In this article, we’ll dive deeper into four key areas where Tidal Accelerator’s advanced analytics provide invaluable insights.
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turbo360

Optimize Azure spending with Turbo360's periodic notifications

Mar 28, 2024 By Modhana In Turbo360
Is your Azure spend management getting out of control? You’re not alone. Countless businesses struggle with the exact problem, often lacking clarity on the reasons behind the cost spike. Especially within larger organizations, where multiple teams deploy Azure resources, the Azure costs can quickly get out of control without the necessary tools to effectively track the spending and evaluate monthly Azure spend against their business needs.
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Internxt

iCloud Drive Review Plus Alternatives to Consider in 2024

Mar 28, 2024 By Nathan Turner In Internxt
For Apple users, the iCloud Drive app is the default option for storing files in the cloud on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac computer. iCloud Drive integrates well with the Apple product suite as many apps built for macOS and iOS use iCloud by default for syncing, and it's the only option for syncing photos in the Photos apps among the Apple product suite. While many people may opt for the convenience and integration of iCloud Drive for their Apple products, others are not so keen.
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Ep. 16: The Evolution of CloudOps: Bridging DevOps to FinOps with Bernard Golden

Mar 28, 2024 By Spot In Spot
In this episode, we sit down with the legendary Bernard Golden, a pioneer with over three decades of experience in technology and cloud computing. Bernard, having shaped the cloud strategies for giants like Capital One and VMware, shares his unparalleled insights into digital transformation, the intricacies of DevOps, and the relentless pursuit of innovation in cloud technology.
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Platform.sh

Limit deployments to Platform.sh only when Git tagged: part two

Mar 28, 2024 By Paul Gilzow In Platform.sh
In part one of this series, we covered how you could limit deployments to Platform.sh only when a tag is pushed/created, focusing primarily on using GitHub and the GitHub Actions platform to accomplish this goal. But we’re a polyglot PaaS and strive to be agnostic in our users’ source code management terms of the service. With that in mind, let’s look at how we can accomplish the same goal using GitLab and your CI/CD system. Just like last time, there are some assumptions to consider.
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The Azure Cost Management Journey

Mar 28, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
Episode 3 of #FinOpsonAzure takes you on journey through Azure cost management and FinOps as industry experts Michael Stephenson and Ahmed Bayoumy delve into the nuances of optimizing cloud spend. Also, Ahmed illustrates a compelling real-world case where a client struggled with an unexpected surge in expenses, underscoring the significance of reliable cost tracking and reporting mechanisms. Discover how third-party solutions help enterprises with detailed analytics, empowering them to pinpoint areas for improvement and help with ways to cut down on unnecessary Azure spending.
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opsmatters

SOC 2 and Cloud Security: What You Need to Know

Mar 27, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
You've probably heard of SOC 2 if you work in tech, but do you really understand what it is? In short, SOC 2 compliance is an auditing procedure that checks how companies store customer data in the cloud. It makes sure your data stays private and secure. This blog further breaks down what SOC 2 means, who needs it, and how companies get certified.
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cloudzero

The 5 Best FinOps Services Companies In 2024

Mar 27, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
We get it. FinOps can be challenging to understand, implement, and optimize, whether you’ve done it before or are just getting started. Everybody needs help from time to time. If this describes you right now, then check out the following FinOps services companies to get started. But first, a quick background.
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canonical

What is a telco cloud?

Mar 27, 2024 By Benjamin Ryzman In Canonical
Telecommunications companies (telcos) are well on their way to transforming their infrastructure from the legacy, unadaptable, complex network of dedicated hardware from yesteryears to agile, modular and scalable software-defined systems running on common off-the-shelf (COTS) servers. Within this space, the current trend, driven by 5G deployments, is to complement tried and tested network function virtualisation (NFV) infrastructure with cloud-native network functions (CNFs).
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canonical

Generative AI with Ubuntu on AWS. Part II: Text generation

Mar 27, 2024 By Carlos Bravo In Canonical
In our previous post, we discussed how to generate Images using Stable Diffusion on AWS. In this post, we will guide you through running LLMs for text generation in your own environment with a GPU-based instance in simple steps, empowering you to create your own solutions. Text generation, a trending focus in generative AI, facilitates a broad spectrum of language tasks beyond simple question answering.
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turbo360

Turbo360 and Contica AB Join Forces to Revolutionize Azure Management in Sweden

Mar 27, 2024 By Mohan Nagaraj In Turbo360
We’re excited to share some thrilling news with our community! Turbo360 has forged a powerful partnership with Contica AB, a leading integration specialist team in Sweden operating on the Microsoft platform since 2010. Comprising a cadre of specialists ranging from security experts to system architects, developers, project managers, integrators, and testers, Contica AB is committed to delivering tangible value through their expertise.
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anodot

Anodot Cloud Cost Update: Forecasting CostGPT and AWS Recommendations

Mar 27, 2024 By Perry Tapiero In Anodot
Our Cloud Cost platform just got some practical upgrades to help you manage cloud costs better and boost your operational efficiency. Curious about the new features? Let’s jump right in! Forecast in ChatGPT Interacting with cloud cost data just got easier and smarter. Ask any cost-related question using natural language, and let CostGPT do the rest. It instantly delivers insightful visualizations and forecasts of your cloud costs.
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splunk

Stream Amazon CloudWatch Logs to Splunk Using AWS Lambda

Mar 27, 2024 By Brett Roberts In Splunk
Amazon CloudWatch Logs enables you to centralize the logs from different AWS services, logs from your applications running in AWS and on-prem servers, using a single highly scalable service. You can then easily view these logs data, search them for specific error codes or patterns, filter them based on specific fields, or archive them securely for future analysis.
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spot

Are you getting the most from your Google Cloud Committed Use Discounts?

Mar 26, 2024 By Revital Vladimirsky In Spot
Many businesses operating in the cloud are looking for ways to reduce cloud costs, and enterprises using Google Cloud are no exception. One of the pricing models Google Cloud is offering to users is Committed Use Discounts (CUDs). This pricing model allows customers to commit either to a minimum amount of resource usage or to a minimum amount of spend for a specified term of one or three years. In return for this commitment, customers receive significant discounts compared to on-demand pricing.
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spot

Top 5 takeaways from KubeCon EU 2024

Mar 26, 2024 By Shon Harris In Spot
Another KubeCon has passed! Now that we have all (hopefully) recovered from the week in Paris with good food, wine, and catching up with colleagues, let’s talk about the important topics that took center stage at KubeCon EU 2024 this year. As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the initial Kubernetes release, it’s evident that the growth and positive impact of containerized computing have revolutionized the industry.
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lumigo

Boosting Application Security Using OpenTelemetry

Mar 26, 2024 By DeveloperSteve In Lumigo
Every day, we hear about new vulnerabilities or exploits that underline the importance of application security in today’s connected world. Such incidents put sensitive user information at risk and threaten applications’ infrastructure. Securing applications is therefore crucial not only from a technical standpoint but also to maintain user trust and ensure service reliability. The challenge lies in identifying and mitigating potential security threats before they can be exploited.
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ScienceLogic

Steps to Taming Hybrid Cloud Complexity: Eliminating Visibility Gaps & Enabling Actionable AI-Powered Insights

Mar 26, 2024 By Lee Koepping In ScienceLogic
For years “the move to the cloud” implied a singular event – a singular migration to a singular entity. It all sounded so simple. Yet, the “simple” act of moving to the cloud stands in stark contrast to the reality of today’s complex, hybrid IT estates where the overwhelming volume of data flows can make it challenging for IT teams to effectively pinpoint and rectify service incidents.
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hyperview

Cloud-based DCIM Software Powers Modern Data Center Operations

Mar 26, 2024 By Rajan Sodhi In Hyperview
Traditionally, data centers have been managed using on-premises software – and for many companies, this solution has been sufficient. However, as the data center environment becomes more intricate and dynamic, a new approach to management is required. Cloud-based Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software has emerged as the next generation of management tools, offering unmatched flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
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datadog

Fine-tune observability configurations for all your Azure integrations in one place

Mar 26, 2024 By Michael Cronk In Datadog
Microsoft Azure provides an array of managed services to support many aspects of cloud computing, including application development, workload migration, and data management. To help you monitor the health and performance of these services, Datadog offers integrations with more than 40 Azure services, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Cosmos DB, and Azure App Services. Each integration provides robust data visualizations, meaningful alerts, and one-click Datadog Agent deployment.
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turbo360

Implementing Azure Cost Circuit Breakers for Budget Protection

Mar 25, 2024 By Michael Stephenson In Turbo360
Recently when recording an episode of the FinOps on Azure podcast with Rik Hepworth which will be out soon we discussed a scenario where we have a cost issue because something went wrong with an Azure solution. In this article we will explore that problem and how you can implement some protection for it.
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smikar

SharePoint Views

Mar 25, 2024 By Mark In SmiKar Software
In the digital age, effective document management is the cornerstone of operational efficiency, especially within platforms like SharePoint. SharePoint serves as a central repository for a myriad of documents—each vital for the day-to-day function of a business. However, without proper management, this repository can quickly turn into an unnavigable maze.
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New era of observability l Blackfire Continuous Profiler

Mar 25, 2024 By Platform.sh In Platform.sh
A new era of observability: introducing Blackfire Continuous Profiler for PHP, Python, Node.js, and Go. Blackfire continuous profiler available to all Production plan customers. After extensive development and refinement, we are proud and excited to announce the immediate availability of our Continuous Profiler for all Production plan customers. This highly anticipated feature is now ready to elevate your application performance monitoring and troubleshooting experience.
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console connect

All you need to know about cloud storage

Mar 25, 2024 By Alex Hawkes In Console Connect
In this blog, we look at how cloud storage solutions have evolved in recent years and explore some of the key connectivity considerations as businesses store more data in the cloud. Cloud storage is probably the oldest and most familiar cloud application, best defined as storing data on ‘someone else’s computer’.
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Platform.sh

DrupalCamp Florida 2024: sharing takeaways from the experts

Mar 25, 2024 By Paul Gilzow In Platform.sh
I had the pleasure of returning to DrupalCamp FL (DCFL) again this year and even now in its sixteenth year, DCFL 2024 was as lively and energetic as ever. Approximately 130 people descended upon Florida Technical College to share their experiences and knowledge surrounding Drupal and I’m here to share the highlights!
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qovery

10 Best EKS Alternatives

Mar 25, 2024 By Morgan Perry In Qovery
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes (EKS) is a powerful solution for managing Kubernetes native applications in the cloud. Being a managed service by Amazon, it handles a lot of complexities of Kubernetes on its own. However, despite its robust features, organizations might seek EKS alternatives due to challenges such as cost considerations, specific feature requirements, or the desire for greater control over their infrastructure.
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2bcloud

Mastering Azure OpenAI Costs and Capacity: Strategies for Efficient Cloud Management

Mar 25, 2024 By Dudi Amir In 2bcloud
In the rapidly evolving world of cloud computing, Azure OpenAI has emerged as a cornerstone for businesses seeking to leverage advanced artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Developed through a collaboration between Microsoft and OpenAI, this managed service has transformed how organizations build and deploy large language models (LLMs), integrating seamlessly with Microsoft services such as GitHub Copilot, Power BI, Designer, and Office 365.
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cloudzero

FinOps Automation Tips And Best Practices - Part 1

Mar 25, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
If you’ve spent any time poking around our blog, you’ve noticed one thing: At CloudZero, we are passionate about FinOps. More than that, we’re passionate about bringing the most useful and up-to-date information on FinOps to our customers to help them better navigate their journeys toward cloud cost optimization.
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virtana

Why MSPs Are Choosing Virtana for AIOps and Observability

Mar 25, 2024 By Meeta Lalwani In Virtana
If you are an MSP, AIOps can be a game changer for your business. By leveraging AI-driven automation, analytics, and insights across your managed IT services portfolio, you can drive operational excellence, improve service quality, and deliver greater value to your clients. But there are many AIOps and observability tools in the market. Here are 13 reasons why many MSPs select Virtana as their AIOps and observability partner of choice.
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cloudzero

The Frugal Architect, Law IV: Unobserved Systems Lead To Unknown Costs

Mar 25, 2024 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
This is part four of seven in our Frugal Architect blog series. Read the rest of the series here. In case you weren’t as giddy as CloudZero was at re:Invent this past year, we wanted to recount the seven laws outlined by Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO, which he’s bundled into a framework called “The Frugal Architect” (check out the whole framework here). What is “The Frugal Architect”?
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FinOps on Azure - Azure Cost Optimization: Real-World Cost Scenarios

Mar 22, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
This episode of "FinOps on Azure" highlights the pitfalls of the "migration mindset" and the challenge of aligning agile development with traditional finance processes. Rik and Mike explore the emergence of FinOps as a solution, emphasizing the importance of a cloud-native mindset, architectural considerations, and empowering teams with cost ownership. The conversation stresses the cultural shift required for effective cost management, supported by tools and automation for ongoing optimization in Azure.
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We manage the infrastructure complexities l Platform.sh

Mar 22, 2024 By Platform.sh In Platform.sh
You deliver the code. We take care of the infrastructure complexities. Deliver your applications faster, at scale. Built for developers, by developers. The efficient, reliable, and secure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that gives development teams control and peace of mind while accelerating the time it takes to build and deploy applications.
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Trusted, proven PaaS platform l Platform.sh

Mar 22, 2024 By Platform.sh In Platform.sh
Platform.sh, a PaaS with flexible, automated infrastructure provisioning and Git-based process optimizes development-to-production workflows. The choice is yours with our multicloud, multistack PaaS supporting more than 100 frameworks, 14 programming languages, and a variety of services to build, iterate, and deploy your way.
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Reduce Cloud Costs and Recover Application Waste | Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer

Mar 22, 2024 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
Pepperdata has saved companies over $200M over the last decade by reclaiming application waste and increasing your hardware utilization to reduce costs in the cloud. It completely eliminates the need for manual tuning, applying recommendations, or changing application code: it's autonomous, real-time cost optimization.
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tidal

Export and Copy IP Address Data with Tidal's Enhanced Subnet Features

Mar 22, 2024 By Deepanshu Bhalotia, Krystle Khoo In Tidal
At Tidal, we’re always looking for ways to streamline IP address management (IPAM) tasks for our customers. That’s why we’re excited to announce the latest enhancements to our Subnet user interface (UI). With these new features, network administrators and owners can now easily export and copy IP address data, simplifying workflows and improving collaboration.
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opsmatters

Exploring the Role of Technology in Hospital Temperature Management

Mar 21, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In the realm of healthcare, maintaining optimal environmental conditions within hospital premises is crucial for patient recovery, the preservation of medicines, and the operation of medical equipment. Among these conditions, temperature management stands out as a fundamental aspect that directly influences the health outcomes of patients and the efficacy of medical procedures. With advancements in technology, hospitals have adopted innovative solutions for precise temperature control, leading to significant improvements in patient care and operational efficiency.
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netreo

Netreo adds support for Azure Application Gateway monitoring and automation

Mar 21, 2024 By Netreo In Netreo
Azure Application Gateway provides application-level routing and load balancing services that let customers build scalable and highly-available web front ends in Azure. Traditional monitoring setup creates challenges as it involves defining parameters based on the expected behavior, setting up dashboards to visualize the data and configuring alerts and notifications. This approach has its limits and the additional layer of automation becomes necessary.
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turbo360

Decoding SaaS Customer Cost: A Guide to Calculating Cost per Customer in Azure

Mar 21, 2024 By Nadeem Ahamed In Turbo360
In the SaaS era, especially in the B2B segment, the business’s profitability will vary from customer to customer. It is usual to observe that there would be a few “expensive customers” who use the platform heavily, which could also mean they are profitable customers. But we cannot take plain guesses! As a business, ensuring that the revenue we receive from each customer is appropriate for what it costs us to deliver the value is significant.
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lumigo

Implementing OpenTelemetry OTLP in .Net

Mar 21, 2024 By DeveloperSteve In Lumigo
The.NET framework is a powerful platform for creating various applications, from web-based services to comprehensive enterprise solutions. Its extensive libraries, support for multiple programming languages, and powerful development tools enable the creation of high-performance, scalable applications that can be customized to suit various needs. This framework continuously evolves to meet the demands of modern software development with a complete ecosystem of add-ons created by an enthusiastic community.
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cloudzero

What Is AWS Compute Optimizer? A Newbie-Friendly Guide

Mar 20, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers the convenience of choosing specific virtual machine combinations to meet your compute needs. Unlike traditional data centers, you can also scale your cloud resources automatically to meet fluctuating workload needs. The best part is that you can rightsize your workload requirements to specific instance types (VM types) offered by AWS. By hand, this takes a lot of time and is prone to errors. This is where AWS Compute Optimizer comes into play.
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What's new in Turbo360 - Reservation recommendations report, Automatic cost anomaly detection....

Mar 20, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
Turbo360 brings a suite of enhancements this month, which includes automatic cost anomaly detection, group budget monitoring, and savings alerts based on rightsizing and reservations. Plus, generate reservation recommendation reports for Azure subscriptions with the Azure Documenter. Experience a smoother workflow with improved service principal access policies and much more!
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eg innovations

Cloud migration vs modernization - What's the difference?

Mar 20, 2024 By Nanda Kumar In eG Innovations
Cloud migration vs modernization – What are the nuances? Cloud migration involves moving applications and data to the cloud often with minimal changes to their architecture. Cloud migration projects usually aim to leverage cloud infrastructure for benefits such as scalability, flexibility and reduced on-prem maintenance.
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pulsant

The pendulum swings back: colocation as a cost control strategy

Mar 20, 2024 By Mark Turner, Chief Commercial Officer In Pulsant
The evolution of public cloud over the past few years has been remarkable. Digital transformation, remote work, and AI have created breakneck growth. Back in 2018, before anyone uttered the words COVID or ChatGPT, there were already big drivers for public cloud. The global digital transformation market size was valued at $320 billion, and set for 18% annual growth, to reach a projected $695 billion by 2025.
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virtana

AIOps as a Service for MSPs: What to Look For

Mar 20, 2024 By Meeta Lalwani In Virtana
AIOps is a game changer for MSPs. But how do you implement AIOps to ensure you get those game-changing benefits? Chances are, you’re not interested in spending the resources and time required to build it yourself with all of the development, testing, maintenance, etc. that entails. Instead, AIOps as a service provides you with the capabilities to better manage the IT infrastructure and operations of multiple clients.
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catchpoint

How to Propagate OpenTelemetry Trace Headers Over AWS Kinesis: Part 2

Mar 20, 2024 By Serkan Ozal In Catchpoint
In the first article of our series, we explored the importance of trace headers and the complexities involved in their propagation. Now, we shift from theory to practice. This second installment will take you through a hands-on baseline scenario and our initial strategy of propagating the OpenTelemetry trace context in AWS Kinesis by using the PartitionKey parameter.
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spot

Spot Ocean outperforms in GigaOm Radar for Kubernetes Management

Mar 20, 2024 By Tzvika Zaiffer In Spot
Spot Ocean has been recognized as the sole leader and outperformer in the GigaOm 2024 Radar for Kubernetes Resource Management in the Maturity and Platform Play quadrant. The report highlights solutions that help organizations more effectively manage the increasing complexity of Kubernetes environments in the cloud. GigaOm evaluated a number of vendors on their ability to analyze and optimize Kubernetes resources.
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splunk

SaaS, PaaS & IaaS: The Ultimate Guide To Cloud Service Models

Mar 20, 2024 By Shanika Wickramasinghe In Splunk
The emergence of cloud computing. Arguably the biggest change in technology in decades, cloud computing changed how technology would now develop and how businesses and organizations would operate. Indeed, the enormous popularity of cloud services is due precisely to that: you can get different models depending on your operational needs. To properly utilize these cloud service models, you should understand the differences in their functional capabilities and the ideal use cases for each model.
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opsmatters

How to restore lost access to the site

Mar 19, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
The modern world dictates new conditions for doing business. One of them is the creation of online platforms. Business owners create websites to sell goods and corporate portals to store information and provide convenience for their employees. Losing access to such websites means loss of profits and the possibility of data loss. Such a situation is a threat to business, so it is better to find out how to restore access to your portal in advance.
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catchpoint

How to Propagate OpenTelemetry Trace Headers Over AWS Kinesis: Part 1

Mar 19, 2024 By Serkan Ozal In Catchpoint
Welcome to our series on navigating the complexities of trace header propagation with OpenTelemetry in AWS Kinesis. In this 3-part exploration, we'll dive into the critical role of trace headers in distributed systems, discuss the unique challenges presented by AWS Kinesis, and explore innovative solutions that keep your data tracking robust and consistent.
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smikar

SharePoint Document Library Security

Mar 19, 2024 By Mark In SmiKar Software
In the digital age, where data flows as freely as water, securing our digital documents and libraries has become a paramount concern. As we navigate through an ever-expanding digital universe, the line between accessibility and security is often blurred. Striking the perfect balance requires not just technical know-how but a strategic mindset. Setting appropriate permissions is not just a safeguarding tactic; it’s a critical component of modern data management.
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lumigo

Instrumenting using the Java OpenTelemetry OTLP

Mar 19, 2024 By DeveloperSteve In Lumigo
Java has long been a foundational pillar in application development, its versatility and robustness serving as key drivers behind its widespread adoption. Since its inception, Java has evolved to meet the ever-changing demands of scalable deployments, offering a reliable platform for creating everything from web applications to complex, server-side systems.
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cloudzero

Datadog Cost Management: How To Optimize Your Datadog Costs

Mar 19, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Datadog is like a Swiss Army knife for observability. Whether it’s cloud, applications, or infrastructure, Datadog can serve all your monitoring needs under one roof. This is with a level of integration that’s akin to having a universal remote for all your digital operations, from on-premises to cloud environments. The thing is, with great power comes a notable concern – cost.
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ScienceLogic

How "Cloud Repatriation" Adds Flexibility and Power to Your Digital Transformation Playbook

Mar 19, 2024 By Dave Link In ScienceLogic
The notion of moving assets out of the cloud may sound like a step backward in an era where digital transformation is driven primarily by migration efforts into the cloud. But it turns out deliberately shifting cyber assets away from the cloud– known as “cloud repatriation”– can be a highly strategic option for CIOs and enterprise IT teams looking to strike the optimal balance of cost, security, performance, and scalability in their IT environments.
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grafana

AWS Observability in Grafana Cloud: A simpler, more intuitive cloud monitoring app

Mar 18, 2024 By Vasil Kaftandzhiev, Ana Ivanov, Kyle Eckhart In Grafana
We know monitoring your AWS environment can be difficult, which is why we’re thrilled to tell you about a new application we’ve built to make the entire process easier, more efficient, and more intuitive. We’ve offered AWS monitoring capabilities for some time, but with the AWS Observability application in Grafana Cloud, we’ve distilled our collective efforts into a more integrated and potent solution.
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cloudzero

Future Trends In Kubernetes Cost Management: What To Expect

Mar 18, 2024 By Alexander Ospina In CloudZero
Kubernetes has emerged as a pivotal force in shaping modern cloud infrastructure. Originating as a brainchild of Google, Kubernetes has evolved into an open-source platform that has revolutionized how applications are deployed, scaled, and managed across a vast network of machines. Its ability to orchestrate containerized applications efficiently makes it an indispensable tool within cloud computing. However, with great power comes great responsibility, particularly in the realm of cost management.
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anodot

Top 13 Cloud Cost Management Solutions of 2024

Mar 18, 2024 By Perry Tapiero In Anodot
As of 2023, 89% of companies are using a multi-cloud approach. The race to the cloud might feel truly like that – a race – but the finish line isn’t hybridization or even a full migration. Even after you’ve made it to the cloud, there’s still more work. Namely, determining cloud costs. Microservices, containers, Kubernetes made resource costs, associated costs and more are near-impossible to sort though.
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virtana

6 Ways AIOps Is a Game Changer for Managed Service Providers

Mar 18, 2024 By Meeta Lalwani In Virtana
The managed service provider (MSP) model delivers tremendous value for clients. They benefit from expertise and implementation that would be difficult and cost-prohibitive to build and manage themselves. The MSPs take on those responsibilities, which means they are on the hook for delivering the services to their clients in an effective and efficient manner.
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How to enhance engineering agility and maximize ROI in Microsoft Azure

Mar 18, 2024 By Spot In Spot
Developing a successful cloud operations practice is the key to unlocking the full benefits of Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform in your organization. Learn how to get started adopting the CloudOps practices, processes, and tooling that will enhance engineering agility in your organization, reduce team burnout, and maximize your ROI from Azure cloud. Relevant Links: 🔔 Don't forget to hit the notification bell to get notified whenever we release a new video.
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console connect

What is Cloud Connect: A beginner's guide to connecting

Mar 18, 2024 By Alex Hawkes In Console Connect
Cloud Connect offers a secure, reliable, dedicated connection between your organisation’s IT infrastructure and the cloud computing services it uses. It provides simple, seamless access to the cloud. If your organisation uses cloud applications, Cloud Connect is a technology you should seriously consider. To help you with that, here we explain what Cloud Connect is, how it works, and the benefits it could offer you.
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opsramp

Why Cloud Migrations and Repatriations are so Important and How to Get Them Right

Mar 15, 2024 By Bill Talbot In OpsRamp
Cloud computing has transformed the landscape of IT and business over the past several years, offering unparalleled speed, scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency to organizations of all sizes. However, amidst the widespread adoption of cloud technologies, there's a noteworthy phenomenon that's also gaining attention and traction: cloud migrations and repatriations.
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turbo360

How Azure cost anomaly detection shields billing shocks

Mar 15, 2024 By Nadeem Ahamed In Turbo360
One of the fundamental promises of the cloud, when organizations embrace it, is significant cost savings compared to its on-premises costs. However, organizations to realize savings is required to proactively plan and monitor the application’s cost at a granular level. Azure cost anomaly detection involves promptly identifying, rectifying, and analysing unexpected Azure cost events to minimize their impact on the business.
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lumigo

NodeJS Instrumentation with the Lumigo OTLP endpoint

Mar 15, 2024 By DeveloperSteve In Lumigo
As software systems become more complex, navigating their inner workings has become increasingly difficult due to the evolution of more advanced architectures. While distributed systems, such as microservices and cloud-native architectures, offer benefits in scalability and agility, they also make it more challenging to pinpoint and resolve system issues. Traditional methods for tracking errors are often insufficient in these multifaceted environments.
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Expanding the AWS partnership Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB

Mar 15, 2024 By InfluxData In InfluxData
InfluxData CEO, Evan Kaplan, discusses the company's expanded partnership with AWS. Open source InfluxDB is now available as a managed service on AWS. Discover what this means for InfluxDB and AWS users, and what additional offerings are in the works to help uers improve their Time to Awesome.
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Platform.sh

Limit deployments to Platform.sh only with tags: part one

Mar 14, 2024 By Paul Gilzow In Platform.sh
Throughout the years, many users have asked us if it’s possible to only deploy to Platform.sh when a tag is pushed using a source code integration. The answer is: with our current source integrations, it's not—but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Platform.sh is based on Git and because of this, acts as a remote for your code repository.
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virtana

AIOps vs. Observability: Which Is Better and Why?

Mar 14, 2024 By Meeta Lalwani In Virtana
If you’ve been keeping up on what’s buzzing in the IT operations and software development space in the past few years, then you know that the concepts of AIOps and observability have been getting a lot of attention. And while they are related, they each address a different aspect of managing and monitoring IT systems.
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influxdata

InfluxData Collaborating with AWS to Bring InfluxDB and Time Series Analytics to Developers Around the World

Mar 14, 2024 By Company / In InfluxData
SAN FRANCISCO – March 14, 2024 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, a new managed offering for AWS customers to run InfluxDB open source natively within the AWS Management Console.
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influxdata

AWS Partners with InfluxData to Bring InfluxDB Open Source to Developers Around the World

Mar 14, 2024 By Evan Kaplan / In InfluxData
Today, AWS announced Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, a new managed offering for AWS customers to run single-instance open source InfluxDB natively within the AWS console. This partnership represents a significant multi-year commitment by AWS to combine its global reach and accessibility with our industry-leading time series database, InfluxDB. AWS adding InfluxDB as a preferred time series database reflects the demand from AWS customers for InfluxDB and evidence of the time series market acceleration.
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Cribl

Conquering Data Lakes and Searching Google Cloud Storage Buckets With Cribl Search

Mar 14, 2024 By Yasmin Hovakeemian In Cribl
What might you accomplish if you could easily search your data lakes without paying to move the data first? The most likely outcome is that you address a critical security incident quicker than ever, save your organization millions of dollars, get a promotion, and then go down in history as the best-looking, most talented analyst to have searched a storage bucket.
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raygun

How to decide between cloud and on-premise monitoring

Mar 13, 2024 By Dave Swersky In Raygun
Application performance monitoring systems tend to be available in two modes: on-premise and cloud-based SaaS. Which is the “right” choice? Well, it depends on your situation, but overall cloud-based SaaS offerings have significant benefits when compared to on-premise. However, it’s not always so simple. The right selection depends on the facts on the ground.
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spot

Delivering innovation at scale: The 3 pillars of successful Azure cloud operations

Mar 13, 2024 By Lauren Dyer In Spot
Around the world, organizations of all sizes rely on Microsoft Azure to bring modern services online—and deliver innovation at scale. Azure provides the flexibility to roll out cloud-based applications at breakneck speed. But running these applications and services in Azure can add complexity for already overworked IT teams, tasked with boosting performance and reducing costs in ever-evolving cloud environments.
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cloudzero

The Role Of Cloud Cost Management In Environmental Sustainability

Mar 13, 2024 By Alexander Ospina In CloudZero
In an era where cloud computing has become the backbone of global business operations, its impact on the environment cannot be overlooked. As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, data centers’ energy consumption and carbon footprint have surged, highlighting a critical need for sustainable practices. One often underappreciated lever for environmental stewardship within this digital infrastructure is effective cloud cost management.
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Cribl

Effortlessly Search Data From Amazon S3 Buckets With Cribl Search

Mar 12, 2024 By Yasmin Hovakeemian In Cribl
On a scale from walk-in-the-park → scaling Mount Everest, how easy is it for you to search your S3 buckets? Retrieving data to respond to security incidents, demonstrate compliance, or extract insights shouldn’t require jumping through hoops or overpaying for access.Cribl Search has native support for platforms like Amazon Security Lake, Amazon S3, Azure Blob, and Google Cloud Storage, enabling seamless data analysis right at its source.
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metricfire

The Value Hosted Graphite brings to the Heroku Marketplace

Mar 12, 2024 By Elliot Langston In MetricFire
Hosted Graphite is a time-series metrics monitoring tool used for application, systems, infrastructure and network monitoring. HostedGraphite is a Hosted Graphite service that offers the full capabilities and benefits of Graphite, without any of the hassle of trying to set up your own open-source Graphite installation.
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smikar

Secure External Document Sharing in SharePoint

Mar 12, 2024 By Mark In SmiKar Software
SharePoint, a product of Microsoft’s suite of office tools, has revolutionized the way organizations collaborate and manage documents. At its core, SharePoint is designed to facilitate the seamless sharing of information, both within an organization and with external partners. The ability to share documents externally is particularly valuable in today’s global business environment, where collaboration with vendors, clients, and contractors across geographical boundaries is commonplace.
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lumigo

Instrumenting Lumigo for Python using OpenTelemetry

Mar 12, 2024 By DeveloperSteve In Lumigo
Standardized frameworks play a fundamental role in leveling the playing field and setting the standard within the tech industry, ensuring that everyone has access to the same tools and practices. These frameworks promote best practices and foster innovation and collaboration across different sectors. One example of such a framework is OpenTelemetry, a project that has rapidly gained traction and continued to flourish as an open-source initiative under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
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NetOps Expert ep 11:Top 5 Ways to Troubleshoot Issues in Modern Networks

Mar 12, 2024 By Broadcom In Broadcom
In this latest episode of the NetOps Expert, Nestor Falcon, from the NetOps by Broadcom product team, explains how to troubleshoot issues in modern networks in five easy steps. He will walk us through examples of how a network operations team can use DX NetOps by Broadcom to determine the root cause of a network degradation issue that affected users accessing a cloud application.
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Cloud threat detection and response

Mar 12, 2024 By Google Operations In Google Operations
Google Security Command Center (SCC) Enterprise is the industry’s first cloud risk management solution that fuses cloud security and enterprise security operations - supercharged by Mandiant expertise and AI at Google scale. Watch and learn how to detect threats to your cloud resources and automate attack response.
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Introduction to AWS Observability in Grafana Cloud | Grafana

Mar 12, 2024 By Grafana In Grafana
Grafana Cloud's streamlined approach to collecting and configuring your AWS data makes it easier to manage your cloud environment and improve performance. ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
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Azure Cost Management and FinOps: Lessons from the Frontlines

Mar 12, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
Azure Cost Management and FinOps: Lessons from the Frontlines This episode of "FinOps on Azure" dives into the crucial issue of managing Azure costs effectively. It addresses the common challenges faced by organizations in controlling their Azure spending and offers insights and strategies to prevent unexpected overspending. Through real-world experiences shared by Saravana Kumar, CEO of Kovai.co, viewers can gain valuable lessons on optimizing Azure consumption and establishing robust cost governance practices.
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cloudzero

The Future Of Cloud Cost Management: AI And Machine Learning On AWS

Mar 11, 2024 By Alexander Ospina In CloudZero
As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, managing expenses efficiently becomes crucial. Traditional cost management methodsoften fall short in this environment, where resource allocation and usage can fluctuate dramatically. Enter Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). These cutting-edge technologies are revolutionizing the way businesses approach cloud cost management.
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qovery

Qovery is Now Available on the AWS Marketplace

Mar 11, 2024 By Romaric Philogène In Qovery
I'm thrilled to announce the availability of Qovery on the AWS Marketplace. You can now buy and benefit from Qovery right from the AWS Marketplace. Before delving into the specific advantages of purchasing Qovery through the AWS Marketplace, let's first understand what the AWS Marketplace is and why this is something you should consider when purchasing Qovery.
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turbo360

Automating Azure Cloud Unit Economics Generation: The Turbo360 Advantage

Mar 11, 2024 By Nadeem Ahamed In Turbo360
The scalability of the cloud and its inherent variable cost has created financial and operational challenges, which demand the process of tracking varying costs in the dynamic Azure infrastructure at a granular business context level. Unit economics is a process of profit maximization in the cloud based on objective measurements like cost per product. This approach assesses how the organization is performing against its business goals.
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Pepperdata

You Can Solve the Application Waste Problem

Mar 11, 2024 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
If you’re like most companies running large-scale data intensive workloads in the cloud, you’ve realized that you have significant quantities of waste in your environment. Smart organizations implement a host of FinOps activities to ameliorate or address this waste and the cost it incurs, things such as: … and the list goes on. These are infrastructure-level optimizations.
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Taloflow's Q1 2024 Feature Updates

Mar 9, 2024 By Taloflow In Taloflow
In this video, Louis-Victor Jadavji, Taloflow's co-founder and CEO, presents the latest changes at Taloflow for the first quarter of 2024, including: Taloflow Q1 2024 Feature Updates Transcript=== Louis-Victor Jadavji: Hey, it's LV here from Taloflow, and I'm looking forward to showing you today, our latest features to accelerate your software vendor decisions. Whether it's in iPaaS, APM, CRM, observability, you name it. We probably have it. And if not, we'll add it soon enough at your request. So let's dive in.
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cloudzero

The 6 FinOps Principles: How To Apply Them To Your Software Dev Cycle

Mar 8, 2024 By CloudZero Team In CloudZero
The FinOps Foundation sets out six FinOps principles cloud-based companies should follow to achieve and maintain optimal control over their cloud spending and cost efficiency. On the surface, they seem straightforward enough. The first principle, for example, is that teams should always collaborate in real-time to “continuously improve for efficiency and innovation” when it comes to staying on top of software development cloud costs.
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smikar

FAQs about SharePoint Online

Mar 8, 2024 By Mark In SmiKar Software
In today’s digital age, the ability to collaborate effectively and manage documents efficiently is more critical than ever. Enter SharePoint Online, a powerful cloud-based platform by Microsoft that is revolutionizing the way organizations operate. It’s more than just a tool; it’s a game-changer in the realm of digital collaboration and content management.
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Densify

Densify Named a Market Leader in GigaOm Radar Report for Kubernetes Resource Management

Mar 8, 2024 By Densify In Densify
Densify has just been recognized by GigaOm as a Leader and “Fast Mover” in the market for Kubernetes Resource Management. This is the second year in a row that Densify has gained this distinction and comes in addition to also being named a leader and outperformer in GigaOm’s report on Cloud Resource Optimization in June of last year.
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spot

How to gain holistic visibility and continuous optimization for AWS with Spot by NetApp

Mar 7, 2024 By Joanne Godfrey In Spot
In today’s fast-paced business world, the best way to get a handle on your organization’s cloud costs is by using automation to optimize cloud cost and resource utilization. Today, this can be achieved through Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps). FinOps is an operational practice that enables data-driven decision making around cloud costs and creates financial accountability through collaboration between engineering, finance, and business teams.
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lumigo

Dissecting MySQL Debugging with Node and Python - Part 2

Mar 7, 2024 By DeveloperSteve In Lumigo
In Part 1 of this blog, we prepared our demo container environments using Docker for the Node Express and Python Flask applications. Now, we move on to the more complex phase of our exploration, where we will dissect and explain the inner workings of our applications. This sequel is designed for those who want to improve their web development skills, offering a comprehensive guide to debugging and tracing.
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Platform.sh

Standardizing your web application stack and how to do it

Mar 7, 2024 By Patrick Boest In Platform.sh
Managing web applications from the ground up can be a daunting task. One application alone can quickly grow in complexity, let alone the multiple applications that are often required by different business units and stakeholders growing simultaneously. Add the ever-changing landscape of trendy frameworks and runtimes, and you quickly find yourself with an unmanageable mess of different technologies. Standardizing your application stack can help reduce the clutter.
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smikar

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Policies in SharePoint Online

Mar 6, 2024 By Mark In SmiKar Software
In an era where digital data is both an asset and a liability, the significance of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) cannot be overstated. SharePoint Online, a cornerstone of enterprise collaboration and document management, is a focal point for DLP efforts. As businesses migrate their operations to the cloud, the need to safeguard sensitive information against leaks or breaches becomes paramount.
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lumigo

Dissecting MySQL Debugging with Node and Python - Part1

Mar 6, 2024 By DeveloperSteve In Lumigo
This is the first post in a series of two looking at debugging and tracing MySQL, which has been a foundation stone of the tech industry, utilized by applications big and small, from personal blogs to complex e-commerce platforms. MySQL has demonstrated adaptability and robustness countless times, making it a critical part of the Internet’s infrastructure. This adaptability has helped MySQL remain relevant amidst the constantly evolving technological landscapes.
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gremlin

How to validate memory-intensive workloads scale in the cloud

Mar 6, 2024 By Andre Newman In Gremlin
Memory is a surprisingly difficult thing to get right in cloud environments. The amount of memory (also called RAM, or random-access memory) in a system indirectly determines how many processes can run on a system, and how large those processes can get. You might be able to run a dozen database instances on a single host, but that same host may struggle to run a single large language model.
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cloudzero

A Year Of Innovation: CloudZero's Major Product Enhancements In 2023

Mar 6, 2024 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
Another year, another quantum leap in public cloud spending. 2022 saw organizations spend $491 billion on the public cloud; not to be outdone, 2023’s $563.6 billion marked the first year that public cloud spending exceeded half a trillion dollars. Accelerating cloud spend mixed with shaky macroeconomic conditions meant one thing: Efficiency has never been a higher priority for cloud-driven organizations.
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2bcloud

Azure Open AI Landing Zone Blueprint

Mar 6, 2024 By leibovich Assaf In 2bcloud
In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a pivotal technology to advance cloud computing, driving innovation and greater efficiency. Among the myriad of AI services available, the Azure OpenAI Service, born from the collaboration between Microsoft and OpenAI, stands out for its robust capabilities and seamless integration with cloud environments.
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cloudzero

Comparing Cost Between Traditional IT Infrastructure And Kubernetes

Mar 5, 2024 By Alexander Ospina In CloudZero
To optimize costs, businesses must continuously assess the cost-effectiveness of their IT infrastructure. This article explores the financial implications of transitioning from traditional cloud IT infrastructure, characterized by elements like EC2, RDS, and non-containerized environments, to Kubernetes, a modern container-orchestration system. Traditional IT infrastructures have long been the backbone of many organizations, offering a certain level of predictability in cost and performance.
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manageengine

Applications Manager extends support for Azure network management and delivery monitoring services

Mar 4, 2024 By Applications Manager In ManageEngine
Applications Manager provides out-of-the box support for Azure Network management and Delivery monitoring by enabling you to obtain in-depth visibility into the performance of your network management and content delivery resources in real-time. It serves as a single pane of glass to keep a close watch on network management resources hosted on Azure by providing monitoring support for the following services.
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manageengine

Applications Manager provides out-of-the-box support for Azure network infrastructure management services.

Mar 4, 2024 By Applications Manager In ManageEngine
Applications Manager offers monitoring support for a wide range of Azure services that can help you to track your network resource performance in real-time. It enables DevOps admins to keep a close watch on their Network Infrastructure resources hosted on Azure by offering monitoring support for the following services.
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cloudzero

How CleverTap Uses Unit Economics To Control Cloud Costs

Mar 4, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
At CloudZero, we take special pride in helping our customers to optimize their cloud spend. We especially love it when a longtime customer has experienced so much success with our platform that they can’t help but sing their love of unit economics from the rooftops. In this interview, we sat down with Francis Pereira, Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering at CleverTap, to find out how CleverTap has evolved and grown during their years of partnership with CloudZero.
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spot

More bang for your K8s buck: How automatic rightsizing saves up to 50%

Mar 4, 2024 By Yarden Kesari In Spot
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are increasingly relying on Kubernetes (K8s) to efficiently manage their containerized workloads. However, many organizations face a significant challenge when it comes to effectively utilizing compute resources, specifically CPU and memory. One Datadog study found that more than 65% of K8s containers use less than 50% of requested memory and CPU. That’s a staggering waste.
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smikar

Governance Best Practices in SharePoint Online Environments

Mar 4, 2024 By Mark In SmiKar Software
In the realm of digital collaboration and information management, SharePoint Online stands out as a versatile platform, empowering organizations to streamline processes, enhance productivity, and foster collaboration. However, the platform’s vast capabilities also bring forth the challenge of governance—a framework essential for ensuring the effective, secure, and compliant use of SharePoint Online.
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