Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The cloud waste problem shows up everywhere. It points to how complicated things have gotten with modern setups. Some groups see waste hitting 80 percent. That makes sense when people check dashboards only now and then. Reports come in way too late to do much about it. Cloud spending will top 825 billion dollars by 2025. For lots of companies, those costs match up with payroll now. Still, handling them often feels like just following loose suggestions.

With more and more business organizations adopting cloud storage to handle their data, the problem of redundancy or duplication of files has become of great concern. Duplicated information does not only eat up the precious storage space but also increases expenditure and lowers productivity. The reason why companies end up paying to store files that they do not require is because duplication of files over time occurs particularly when more than one team or department is doing a common project. Learning to detect and remove duplicate data is a key to the cost control and ability to manage data in general.