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Preventing A $70K Cost Spike In 4 Clicks - And Protecting Our Profit (Video)

At CloudZero, the thing we do better than any other cost solution is connect the dots between cloud cost and your businesses. While other solutions offer reporting and dashboards that answer, “How much did we spend?”, CloudZero also enables you to answer “Why?”. Was it because you onboarded a new customer? Did your team push new code? Or did usage of a feature tick up after some clever UX adjustments?

Redgate upgrades SQL Monitor query tuning capability to help development teams move faster and smarter

As part of its ongoing program to continuously release improvements for its SQL Server performance monitoring tool, Redgate announced today a new feature to ease the problems DBAs and developers face with query tuning and optimization.

Showcase dashboards securely and effortlessly with Skykit's offering in the Datadog Marketplace

For many organizations, making the most of the visibility Datadog offers into the health and performance of their infrastructure means displaying dashboards to stakeholders in various settings continuously and in real time. But the standard solutions for sharing dashboards to large-format displays can be onerous, involving sundry software and hardware and restrictive manual setups. These solutions can also pose significant security risks, since they tend to involve sharing passwords or devices.

Location, location, colocation

You might think that colocation has been replaced by the cloud. But that’s only true in marketing terms. The reality is that colocation and the role it plays in modern edge computing has never been more important or more required. Believe it or not, cloud computing doesn’t happen in the actual sky – it happens in a data centre. And knowing where that data centre is, and how fast it links to your network and the internet, can be challenging with hyperscalers.

Don't get lost in public cloud promises

When it comes to cloud computing and the migration of services to the public cloud, we’ve been hearing the hype for years. “Just migrate to the cloud and everything will just work. Things will be bigger, faster, cheaper, and better.” The reality is that a migration to the cloud can result in serious disappointment from unrealistic expectations.

Advanced Kubernetes interview questions

In the second part of our “Kubernetes interview questions” series, we have outlined ten questions to help those that want to take their Kubernetes knowledge to the next level. Read on to learn more about the difference between Kubernetes and Docker Swarm. We’ll also be covering how an organization can keep costs low using Kubernetes. If you missed part one, check it out here.

Top 3 SQL Recovery & Repair Tools

Data collected by you is a valuable asset, however, mere collection or accumulation of data may not be enough to result in a positive and noticeable change within your firm. According to Forbes, besides collecting data it is critical to make intelligent and appropriate use of data. Data is not supposed to be a visible asset. As such data collection may not be up to the mark, particularly while manually handling the process.

Tour Terraform Registries in Artifactory

Why should you keep Terraform module, provider, and backend registries in a binary repository manager like Artifactory? Because, like your builds, packages, and other artifacts, your Terraform files are a key part of your software supply chain. Terraform is a widely used open source infrastructure-as-code (IaC) software tool to manage the entire lifecycle of cloud service infrastructure.