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turbo360

Azure Cost Allocation to manage Azure spend and get the most out of it

Oct 3, 2024 By Victor Garcia In Turbo360
As more and more companies are moving their operations to the cloud, cost management becomes one of the significant concerns, and Azure cost allocation provides the solution for it. Due to the fact that more and more companies use Azure services, it has become crucial to define the correct Azure cost allocation and resource management.
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cloudzero

Google Cloud Monitoring Guide: Best Practices And Tools To Use

Oct 2, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers a great alternative to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. If you use Google Products extensively at work, such as Google Workspace, moving to GCP may be a natural choice. Perhaps you already use GCP with AWS, Azure, or another cloud provider as part of your hybrid cloud strategy. But maybe you struggle to manage GCP costs, monitor security and compliance, and observe performance.
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cloudzero

5 Azure Optimizations That Make Cloud Cost Savings Simple

Oct 2, 2024 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
As both the State Of FinOps 2024 and the State Of Cloud Costs In 2024 indicate, reducing cloud waste remains a top priority for cloud-driven organizations. Cloud spenders care more than ever about cost efficiency — and CloudZero is working tirelessly to make cloud savings simpler. To this end, we’re proud to announce that we’ve added a suite of automated Azure optimizations to our already robust library of automated Insights.
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Unlocking Massive Savings Through SaaS Expense Management

Unlocking Massive Savings Through SaaS Expense Management

Oct 2, 2024 By Samitha Nagasinghe, Project Manager at Calero In OpsMatters
Over the course of the 2010s, corporate adoption of cloud productivity services skyrocketed. This meant that by the end of 2020, entire C-level teams were in for a rude awakening: spend on SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) subscriptions had increased with little control. Budgeting on SaaS spend became a matter of pricing without any real analysis being done on the multi-layered spending structure, revealing an overlapping set of dormant subscriptions and underused licenses. One global retailer thought it paid $80 million for 220 known SaaS apps - until an audit set the record straight.
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cloudzero

Cloud Cost Optimization Metrics Every CFO Should Track

Sep 30, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Cloud services have become an indispensable resource for businesses seeking agility, scalability, and innovation. However, with this increased reliance on the cloud comes the challenge of managing and optimizing costs effectively. For Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), understanding and tracking cloud cost metrics is crucial to maintaining financial health and ensuring strategic investments yield the desired returns.
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InvGate

IT Infrastructure Optimization: Improved Performance and Cost Savings

Sep 30, 2024 By Natalí Valle In InvGate
IT infrastructure optimization should be a top priority. It is not just about upgrading hardware or software but about ensuring that all components work together seamlessly to support business needs. Your IT infrastructure supports all your daily operations and some of your long-term strategic goals. In this article, we'll explore the key aspects of IT infrastructure optimization, discuss practical steps to improve performance, and offer tips for managing costs.
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cloudzero

Guide To Calculating TCO On AWS And Tools To Help

Sep 27, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Organizations often assume that switching to Amazon Web Services (AWS) will automatically reduce their on-premises spending. Certainly, cloud-based services like AWS’ Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) can offer significant cost savings. Yet overspending on AWS is quite common. How can you tell if moving to AWS is the right decision? What figures would you use to quantify and justify that choice to decision-makers? Enter Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) on AWS.
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datadog

How we used Datadog to save $17.5 million annually

Sep 27, 2024 By Bowen Chen In Datadog
Like most organizations, we are always trying to be as efficient as possible in our usage of our cloud resources. To help accomplish this, we encourage individual engineering teams at Datadog to look for opportunities to optimize. They can share their performance wins, big or small, in an internal Slack channel along with visualizations and, often, calculations of the resulting annual cost savings.
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datadog

Optimize your AWS costs with Cloud Cost Recommendations

Sep 26, 2024 By Kayla Taylor In Datadog
Managing your AWS costs is both crucial and complex, and as your AWS environment grows, it becomes harder to know where you can optimize and how to execute the necessary changes. Datadog Cloud Cost Management provides invaluable visibility into your cloud spend that enables you to explore costs and investigate trends that impact your cloud bill.
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manageengine

Unlocking cloud visibility with CloudSpend's Cost Category report

Sep 25, 2024 By CloudSpend In ManageEngine
CloudSpend Cost Category Reports Cloud costs can quickly spiral out of control without a proper understanding of where the money is being spent. AWS offers a tool called Cost Categories that allows you to group and categorize costs across various dimensions, including accounts, services, tags, charge types, and usage types. When paired with a cloud cost management tool like CloudSpend, this categorization becomes even more insightful.
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