From query to action: Introducing SQL alerting in Cloud Monitoring Observability Analytics
Cloud Monitoring Observability Analytics lets you create alerts from (and get alerted about) analytical SQL queries of logs and traces.
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The AI vendors just started watching the meter. CFOs need to watch the return.
On June 18, OpenAI gave ChatGPT Enterprise admins new credit usage analytics and spend controls. It’s a single view of credit consumption broken down by user, product, and model, default workspace budgets, per-group limits, and a Cost API for pulling the data into their own systems. Two days earlier, Microsoft shipped Copilot Cowork with spending limits, budget allocation, usage alerts, and user-level caps. This is a step in the right direction.
Customer lifetime value (CLV): formula, calculation, and how to improve it
Customer lifetime value (CLV) is the total revenue a business expects from a single customer over the entire relationship, minus the costs of serving them. The standard SaaS CLV formula: Average Revenue Per Account x Gross Margin % / Monthly Churn Rate. For a $500/month customer with 75% gross margin and 5% churn: CLV = $7,500. That number can swing materially once AI spend per customer is built into gross margin, something many SaaS companies still don't do.
Why your Drupal or Django project keeps breaking in staging (and how to fix it structurally)
Beyond hosting: moving from framework management to application delivery.
Secure SharePoint Document Sharing: 2026 Enterprise Guide
External sharing controls, sensitivity labels, DLP, conditional access, audit, and lifecycle for SharePoint document libraries. The 2026 enterprise reference.
The secret behind Carnegie's fortune and the lesson for the AI era
Point A: 1835. Andrew Carnegie is born in a weaver’s cottage in Dunfermline, Scotland. The cottage has one main room, which the Carnegies share with another family. Point B: 1901. Andrew Carnegie becomes the richest man in the world when Carnegie Steel Company wins the Iron vs. Steel industrialists’ war, and he sells the company to J.P. Morgan for the modern equivalent of $450 billion.
Shipped: See who's really spending your Claude budget
The Anthropic Enterprise connector pulls per-user Claude Enterprise cost and usage into CloudZero, so you can allocate Claude spend to the teams that drove it.
Azure FinOps with AI: What's New in Turbo360 v5.2
Turbo360 v5.2 is the biggest AI update we've shipped. Every module now has AI built in - not just to surface data, but to explain it, guide you through it, and help non-experts take action without needing to call in a specialist. In this video, Mike Stephenson walks through every new feature in v5.2, from AI agents that explain cost drivers and rightsizing recommendations, to a brand new Savings Tracker that gives you a better way to prove FinOps impact to management.
Turbo360 for System Integrators: Grow Your Azure Practice
If you deliver Azure integration solutions for clients, this video is for you. Fragmented tooling, unpredictable bills, and support incidents that eat into your consultancy time — these are the problems that limit how fast SI partners can scale. Turbo360 helps you solve all three, and turn each one into a business growth opportunity. In this video, Turbo360 CTO Mike Stephenson (Microsoft MVP) walks through how system integrator partners are using Turbo360 to deliver better outcomes for clients, reduce support overhead, and build managed service revenue alongside their integration practice.