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Densify

The Foundation of Cloud Optimization - Cloud Tagging Strategy

Sep 1, 2023 By Densify In Densify

Cloud Tagging should be automated, not left to humans. Optimization in the cloud is actually really simple. Here’s how we get our customers thinking differently which in turn makes them successful. “To your developers the cloud is like a candy store is to a kid where all the candy is free”. Just as parents need to teach their kids the value of money, you need to teach your developers the value of cloud spend.

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How Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer Next Gen Can Save 30% Off Your Cloud Bill

Aug 30, 2023 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer Next Gen is the only cost optimization solution for both Apache Spark and microservices that can save you between 30–47% on your cloud bill. No matter if you try to manually tune your applications on your own, an estimated one-third of what is spent every day on cloud computing resources is wasted. While you might have cost-optimized your infrastructure with things like savings plans, spot and reserved instances, that doesn’t address the waste inherent in your applications. Pepperdata is the only cost optimization solution that.
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grafana

A complete guide to metrics cost management in Grafana Cloud

Aug 25, 2023 By Farhan Manjiyani, Archana Kesavan In Grafana

The macro economy can put a lot of pressure on organizations to reduce costs, typically with the central SRE and platform engineering teams coming under scrutiny. One common workaround we’ve seen countless teams make is compromising their observability by ingesting fewer metrics in the name of cost savings. But for centralized SRE/observability teams, the response to macro conditions should not be monitor less, but rather monitor smarter.

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Pepperdata

How Pepperdata Does What Nobody Else Does

Aug 25, 2023 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
Here at Pepperdata, we’ve been on a number of sales calls lately where there’s a sense of incredulity on the other side of the video screen. How does Pepperdata extract as much as 50 percent in cost savings from some of the most sophisticated clusters in the world, the ones that had already been optimized for peak performance by the most dedicated and talented IT teams? It almost seems too good to be true. It’s not.
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cloudzero

CloudZero Vs. Homegrown Cloud Cost Tooling

Aug 24, 2023 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
From 2022 to 2023, worldwide cloud spending is expected to increase to $597.3 billion, up from $491 billion in 2022. Year over year, that’s a 21.64% increase. Compare that to the 15.42% increase (at the time of writing) in the Nasdaq-100 Technology Sector Index, and you see a simple, inconvenient truth: Cloud spend is outpacing business growth by a substantial margin. It’s no wonder that cloud efficiency sits at the top of many companies’ priority lists.
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cloudzero

21+ Stunning FinOps Statistics You Need To Read

Aug 22, 2023 By CloudZero Team In CloudZero
A recent report found that managing cloud costs, alongside resource usage, is the most pressing cloud management challenge for the fifth straight year. This makes sense, considering respondents said a staggering 32% of their cloud budget went to waste in 2022 alone. It doesn't end there. The following FinOps statistics also demonstrate the value of the cloud for many organizations.
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cloudzero

10 FinOps Diagrams To Help You Better Understand The Value Of FinOps

Aug 21, 2023 By CloudZero Team In CloudZero
By now FinOps has proven its value — so much so that the web is full of helpful in-depth guides, broad overviews, bite-sized articles, and resource lists on the subject. But if you're preparing to pitch a FinOps program at your company, you need to convey only the most important points in a way that's both impactful and succinct. That's when it's time to call in the visuals.
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cloudzero

The Top FP&A KPIs And How To Choose Yours

Aug 18, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
You know this by now. You can only improve an area of your business if you measure its health and performance. Yet, rather than collecting every general finance metric possible, you’ll want to plan, collect, and analyze the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that’ll drive strategic decision-making. That means KPIs are a subset of metrics that are most relevant to your goals as a team. Here’s how to leverage the right KPIs as an FP&A team.
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