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Create Drag-And-Drop Unit Cost Dashboards In Minutes

Oct 30, 2024 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
As 2024 peeks into 2025, cloud-driven businesses are poised for yet another year of record cloud spending. After exceeding $675B this year, cloud spenders are expected to shell out more than $820B in 2025 (Gartner). But as any good unit economist knows, it’s not just that cloud costs are growing, it’s that they’re growing inefficiently — taking too big a bite out of companies’ profits.
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What's New in Turbo360 - Azure Cost Analyzer Improvements, Anomaly Detection Enhancements...

Oct 30, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
Turbo360's Product Owner, Michael Stephenson, brings you the latest updates in the Azure cost management and monitoring platform. This video highlights exciting new UI themes, enhanced widget features, and improved cost analysis tools—all designed to boost your productivity and deliver deeper insights.
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Understanding Provisioning In IT: A Complete Guide For 2024

Oct 28, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Your IT infrastructure, resources, and components play a crucial role in your system performance, security, and overall health. Provisioning is often one of the very first steps toward setting up the right environment for your workload requirements – both locally and in the cloud. Here’s a handy guide to how provisioning works in IT. We’ll also share a tool to help you prevent overprovisioning and waste by automating provisioning in the cloud.
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How OnlineOrNot more than halved its AWS bill

Oct 28, 2024 By Max Rozen In OnlineOrNot
Chances are, you've heard one of the main promises of serverless compute: "you only pay for what you use". While convenient when starting a new project, once you start to get continuous usage on that compute, you start to realize you're paying a hefty premium for that convenience. If you're using AWS Lambda like I am, chances are that "for what you use" part isn't completely true either.
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13 Snowflake Tools To Help Monitor Cloud Storage And Usage

Oct 25, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Snowflake is special for several reasons. To begin with, its architecture separates storage and compute, making it fast, highly scalable, and efficient. Snowflake’s cloud-native, SaaS, and serverless approach also means you don’t have to worry about provisioning servers on-premises. Instead, you just need a Snowflake subscription; their team will handle the handy work on your behalf. At CloudZero, we use Snowflake for these and several more reasons.
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Cloud Financial Operations: Strategies for Cost Management

Oct 24, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
This episode of FinOps on Azure delves into financial operations within cloud infrastructure management, featuring host Michael Stephenson, A FinOps certified practitioner, and Andrew Matveychuk, Information Technology Architect. They discuss the critical importance of cost management in cloud environments, highlighting the expectations versus reality of cloud migration costs.
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Choosing The Best AWS Pricing Model: A Complete Look At AWS Pricing (With Examples)

Oct 23, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
We uncovered over $1.7 million of annualized cloud savings a few months ago. The key to getting here was understanding the whos, whats, and whys of our costs as they were. Well, that’s three things, but you get the idea. Now here’s the thing. The key to understanding your Amazon Web Services (AWS) costs is to know what you are paying for and why. To understand these two, you have first to understand what you’re paying, right?
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Maximizing cloud efficiency with CloudSpend's Resource Inventory report

Oct 22, 2024 By CloudSpend In ManageEngine
CloudSpend Resource Inventory As organizations increasingly rely on the cloud to support business operations, cloud cost management of resources becomes vital for cost control, resource optimization, and effective governance. A clear view of your entire cloud infrastructure is essential to avoid unnecessary spending and improve operational efficiency. CloudSpend’s Resource Inventory report provides a detailed analysis of all the cloud resources within any business. Let us dive into this below.
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Ternary Alternatives For FinOps Teams And Cloud Optimization

Oct 21, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
As of 2024, 89% of organizations are using a multi-cloud strategy. Among the reasons for this shift are avoiding vendor lock-in and achieving scalability and cost-effectiveness. Yet, maximizing the value of investments in multi-cloud environments is a major challenge. That’s where multi-cloud FinOps solutions like Ternary come in — or, as you’ll see in this guide, where the top Ternary alternatives can take the lead.
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Beyond Basics: Advanced Azure Advisor Cost Recommendations for Your Business

Oct 21, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
Discover how to maximize your Azure cost savings by exploring strategies and techniques that go beyond the insights provided by Azure Advisor. Also, learn why managing Azure costs has become a critical challenge for organizations and why native tools like Azure Advisor may not be giving you the full picture. This video unpacks the complexities of cloud cost optimization and explores how data-driven insights are revolutionizing Azure Cost Management.
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AWS Budgets Alternatives To Help Optimize AWS Cloud Spend

Oct 18, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers several native tools for reporting and cost optimization. Among them is AWS Budgets, a service that enables users to set spending and usage limits on their AWS resources. It also schedules reports with regular updates on actual or forecasted costs, ensuring users are informed of usage. However, AWS Budgets is a budgeting tool and has limitations when it comes to comprehensive AWS cost control.
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15 Cloud Business Intelligence Tools: Organized By Category

Oct 16, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Data overload. Poor decision-making. Inefficient processes. Limited real-time insights. These are just a few of the many challenges an organization would face without business intelligence (BI). Yet traditional BI has its own set of challenges, including complexity, cost, data diversity, and more. These limitations have led businesses to seek a more affordable and efficient solution — the cloud. This article explains cloud business intelligence (cloud BI), how it works, and its benefits.
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Tech Bacteria Experiment: Just How Much Bacteria Is Lurking On Your Devices?

Oct 15, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
We take our phones and tech devices everywhere — whether it’s on the train, at a coffee shop, or even in bed, we’re rarely far from them. In fact, 75% of Americans admit to using their phones even while on the toilet. With each new location, our devices pick up a mix of dust, dirt, and germs along the way. While the COVID-19 pandemic may have heightened our awareness of germs, are we paying enough attention to the bacteria that can gather on our everyday gadgets?
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Azure Cost Management Per Department: Optimizing Cloud Spending using Turbo360

Oct 15, 2024 By Praveena Jayanarayanan In Turbo360
Cloud adoption is growing rapidly, and businesses are increasingly using platforms like Azure to run their services. However, managing costs efficiently is crucial to prevent overspending. By tracking costs per department, you ensure that each team is accountable for its cloud spending, making optimization and budgeting more effective. In this article, we’ll explore how to track and allocate Azure costs per department, ensuring your organization optimizes its cloud budget.
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Best Amazon RDS Alternatives For Cloud Database Management

Oct 14, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Data is in the digital age what oil was in the industrial age. Many organizations have noticed this and are now racing to find the most efficient, cost-effective, and robust platforms to help organize, store, and manage their data. Amazon RDS offers a robust cloud database solution, but like any service, it has limitations. In this guide, we’ll explain cloud database management, how Amazon RDS supports it, and why it might not meet all needs.
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How to Lower Your Cloud Costs

Oct 9, 2024 By Chuck Day In Megaport
Cloud costs can pile up quickly, and often behind the scenes. We explain how you can help your business keep cloud spend under control. Enterprises—including small- to medium-sized—often find themselves struggling to manage costs and predict their cloud storage. And it’s not necessarily because we’re acquiring more things – it’s because the things we have are getting bigger.
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Optimize Your Spend

Oct 9, 2024 By Ivanti In Ivanti
In this video, we explore practical techniques and best practices for reducing TCO and optimizing your IT budget. Discover how to make informed decisions, improve operational efficiency, and create a seamless employee experience. Watch now and learn how to reduce your TCO and optimize your IT spend. Find the right ESM solution for your needs at ivanti.com.
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Databricks Alternatives For Data Intelligence in 2024

Oct 9, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Data drives decisions forward. Every insight leads to action. A 2024 Gartner report revealed that organizations utilizing analytics and AI are better positioned to manage complexity, build trust in data, and empower their teams. This underscores the critical role of data intelligence. It involves collecting and analyzing data to uncover patterns and trends that help businesses take action. As a result, they can make informed decisions, optimize performance, and gain a competitive edge.
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25 Azure Monitoring Tools To Consider For Cloud Optimization

Oct 7, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Microsoft Azure is the most popular cloud computing platform after Amazon Web Services (AWS). With over 200 services and resources available, there are plenty of ways to use Azure. This means the Azure public cloud allows hundreds, if not thousands, of unique configurations. This flexibility is ideal for tailoring Azure to your workload’s requirements but also makes cloud management more challenging.
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Cost Guide: How to Manage IT Costs Effectively

Oct 7, 2024 By Lauren Ballejos In NinjaOne
In this article, you will learn effective ways on how to manage IT costs. Recently, IT departments face increasing pressure to reduce costs while maintaining high-quality services. A McKinsey and University of Oxford study found that large IT projects, on average, run 45% over budget and 7% over time while delivering 56% less value than predicted. This alarming trend emphasizes the need for effective IT cost management strategies.
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AWS Cost Explorer Vs. Cost And Usage Report: How To Use Each

Oct 4, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
A major problem led Amazon to introduce Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Reports. Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) users were overspending on services they couldn’t quite identify. Before the two cloud financial management tools, the AWS public cloud was like a buffet menu without prices. Engineers could use as many cloud resources as possible (and then some), only to be hit with surprise bills at the end of the month or billing cycle.
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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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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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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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