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Kentik Traffic Costs Workflow Demo

Sep 3, 2025 By Kentik In Kentik

Learn how Kentik's automated traffic cost workflow provides instant visibility into network traffic costs, enabling you to optimize spend, improve margins, and make smarter business decisions. In this demo, you'll see practical examples like evaluating costs by AS group and downstream customer, helping network, finance, and commercial teams take immediate, actionable steps to reduce costs and boost efficiency.

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Vendor consolidation-the key to IT cost optimization in 2026

Sep 2, 2025 By Jeremy Spence In ManageEngine

IT departments are no strangers to complexity. With businesses navigating a range of cloud services, cybersecurity tools, and automation technologies, the modern IT ecosystem can resemble a medley of vendors, software, and services sown together. While these solutions aim to improve performance, the sheer volume of suppliers can muddy the waters when it comes to efficiency and cost management.

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Why Cost Optimization Should Be More Like Pulling Levers, Not Using Scissors

Sep 2, 2025 By CloudZero Team In CloudZero

The cloud, as we know it today, was created as recently as 2006. For most of its lifespan since then, companies have been throwing money at cloud services with abandon. The competitive edge gained by having the newest, best, and most powerful tools at their disposal made it worthwhile for companies to spend ever-increasing amounts without too much worry.

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Gemini AI Pricing: What You'll Really Pay In 2025

Sep 1, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero

If your team is experimenting with Google’s latest Gemini models, you’ve probably noticed the pricing can get murky. And like any cloud service, usage-based billing means those features can quickly rack up your SaaS costs. Free tiers fade fast. Token usage gets fuzzy. And before long, your GenAI bill feels more like a guessing game than a budget line item.

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How Right-Sizing Ephemeral Environments Reduces Cloud Costs

Aug 31, 2025 By Alex Oprisan In Bunnyshell

Ephemeral environments supercharge development velocity-but if left unchecked, they can quietly drain your cloud budget. The answer? Right-sizing: a strategy that tailors resource allocation to real-world usage. Done right, it can slash cloud expenses by 30% to 70%. Let's dive into how this works-and why more teams are making it part of their CI/CD pipelines.

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Electronic Data Capture: Transforming Operations in Clinical Research

Aug 30, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters

The clinical research landscape has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent years, driven by the urgent need for faster, more accurate data collection and management. At the heart of this evolution lies Electronic Data Capture (EDC) technology, which has fundamentally changed how organizations conduct clinical trials and manage operational workflows. For operations professionals overseeing complex research environments, understanding EDC systems represents a critical component of modern data management strategy.

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DeepSeek Pricing: Models, How It Works, And Saving Tips

Aug 29, 2025 By Rachel Whitener In CloudZero

Some teams won’t touch DeepSeek because it’s Chinese. Others are quietly running pilots and rethinking how much reasoning and context they actually need, or can afford. For SaaS teams staring down runaway AI costs, DeepSeek’s mix of open-source freedom, massive context windows, and token rates 10–30X cheaper than OpenAI or Anthropic is tough to ignore. However, DeepSeek pricing comes with cache hits, cache misses, off-peak discounts, that September pricing shift, and more.

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FinOps For Claude: Your Strategy For Managing Claude API And Anthropic Costs At Scale

Aug 28, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero

Anthropic’s Claude is one of the most powerful and developer-friendly large language models (LLMs) available. But as usage grows, so does cost. Here’s the reality: A single unoptimized development loop or unmonitored QA job can multiply costs 10x overnight. Most teams experimenting with Claude lack the visibility and guardrails needed to prevent runaway costs, especially once usage moves from R&D into production.

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Reduce cloud waste with Datadog Cost Recommendations

Aug 27, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog

Struggling to optimize your cloud spend across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud? Datadog Cloud Cost Management highlights underutilized or legacy resources and lets engineers take immediate action using Datadog Workflows. Eliminate waste and drive savings with recommendations that your teams can trust.

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Optimize Kubernetes and Container Costs with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

Aug 27, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog

Struggling to understand the true cost of your Kubernetes workloads? With Datadog Cloud Cost Management, you can automatically allocate container costs by team, product, and service down to the pod. Instantly identify idle resources, surface optimization opportunities, and act with confidence. All in one unified platform.

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