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The governance playbook for mid-market IT teams

The contemporary IT landscape for mid-market organizations is defined by a paradoxical pressure: the mandate to accelerate digital transformation and AI integration while operating under the most stringent cost discipline observed in decades. For firms positioned between the nimble agility of startups and the vast resources of global enterprises, the "complexity of data lineage" and "legacy modernization paralysis" have emerged as primary barriers to progress.

3 Simple EC2 Cost Optimization Strategies That Actually Work

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the leader in cloud computing for more than 10 years. Despite a decade of innovation, no AWS service encapsulates cloud computing principles better than Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Through EC2, AWS can offer flexible and scalable virtual infrastructure that can be ‘rented’ to run applications and workloads.

Migrate Your On-premises to the Cloud: A Step-by-Step Guide

Is it time to migrate your data center applications to the cloud? Get key considerations and a step-by-step migration path. Migrating your on-premises data center to the cloud can seem like a daunting task, from deciding on the right cloud deployment model to ensuring that your network connectivity is secure and scalable. For many companies, the question isn’t whether to migrate, but how to do it efficiently and with minimal disruption.

Your Cloud Is Transparent - Just Not to You

Many organizations that have moved to the cloud enjoy the flexibility and scalability it provides. But as cloud environments grow, a new challenge emerges: how to maintain real visibility and control over the environment that runs the business. In a new article published on People & Computers, we discuss one of the most common blind spots in modern cloud operations — situations where the same external provider both operates the environment and reports on its performance.

Webinar recap: FinOps In The AI Era - A Critical Recalibration

In March 2026, CloudZero’s Ben Austin, Director of Product Marketing, sat down with Ray Rike, Founder and CEO of Benchmarkit, to walk through findings from FinOps in the AI Era: A Critical Recalibration, a joint survey of nearly 500 organizational leaders on how they’re managing or, rather, struggling to manage AI costs.

GPU Fragmentation Is Killing AI Economics

By 2026, the GPU shortage isn’t a supply-chain hiccup anymore. It’s baked into the system. Even after pouring billions into CapEx, most enterprises still want 40% more GPU capacity than they actually have. And it’s not because they’re chasing moonshots. Technology companies are training foundation models while serving inference for millions of users on the same clusters. AI labs are juggling fine-tuning, evaluation, and real-time experimentation side by side.

Observability for Azure Virtual Desktop with SquaredUp

Managing Azure Virtual Desktop doesn’t have to mean jumping between portal blades, logs, and metrics trying to piece together what’s happening. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to design and implement a single, operational observability dashboard for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) using SquaredUp Cloud — transforming fragmented telemetry into clear, actionable insight. Whether you're responsible for performance, user experience, or operational stability, this session will give you a structured, repeatable framework for monitoring your AVD estate with confidence.

AI-ready sovereignty playbook 2026: how to run gen-AI workloads (ethically) in the EU

Sovereignty is a concept that can have shown nuances in the way it is currently used by states and industry to describe some services. The term “strategic autonomy” has also been used, as to describe the need for governments to ensure that they have a hand on the full value chain (or at least know the gaps and accept the risks) and can apply their rules while it seats in its jurisdiction (autonomy derives from the greek autos (self) nomos (rule).

Practice Vs. Performance: Two Reports On The State Of FinOps

This month, two FinOps research reports landed in close proximity. One from the FinOps Foundation — their 6th annual State of FinOps, drawing on a broad global practitioner community. One from CloudZero: FinOps in the AI Era: A Critical Recalibration, built on responses from 475 senior leaders at cloud-mature, AI-active organizations, with a focused lens on how AI is reshaping cloud cost management. Read each alone, and you get a useful snapshot for your business.