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Hello, tech aficionados and IT professionals! If you’re in the business of managing digital assets, workflows, or intranets, chances are you’ve crossed paths with SharePoint. But do you ever wonder how this versatile platform has evolved over the years? Or perhaps you’re curious about what future enhancements are on the horizon? Well, buckle up, because we’re about to embark on a comprehensive journey through the fascinating world of SharePoint.

Businesses are rapidly transitioning to the cloud, making effective cloud cost management vital. This article discusses best practices that you can use to help reduce cloud costs.

As the cloud storage world expands, so does the competition for the crown of best online cloud storage provider, leaving many people wondering which is the best cloud storage option for them. In this case, it's time to put Microsoft OneDrive under the microscope in this OneDrive review.

As many companies shift from traditional IT infrastructure to cloud computing, they are also rethinking how they handle cloud costs — from accounting to tax reporting. Computing costs are predictable and relatively fixed in traditional IT environments. An organization purchases computing capacity upfront and uses it over time. The total cost of ownership is fairly easier to calculate with this setup. By contrast, cloud computing operates on a pay-as-you-go basis, with no upfront payments.

We’re excited to share an update on our Microsoft Azure integration that automates discovery and mapping of key cloud assets into Tidal Accelerator. Tidal has enabled a new integration that pulls information on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), Azure App Service, and Azure Database instances, Elastic Pools and Servers, directly into Tidal Accelerator for further analysis.

We’ve seen two general approaches to getting optimization done to reduce cloud costs in our customers; the first and most popular is “the stick” where FinOps teams campaign against lines of business development teams with a mantra of “spend less”!

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers a variety of database instances, which can be confusing at first. In this guide, we'll clarify what each RDS instance class, family, type, and size means in under 15 minutes. Let's start at the beginning.

Hello, and welcome to this deep dive into one of the most underappreciated yet profoundly useful technologies in the Windows operating system—Volume Shadow Copy Service, commonly known as VSS. Have you ever been caught in a situation where your computer crashes, and you lose hours, days, or even weeks of work? It’s a heart-stopping moment that most of us have unfortunately experienced. But here’s where VSS comes into play.

Pepperdata’s ability to halve cloud costs at top enterprises may seem radical and new, but it’s absolutely not. Pepperdata has been hardened and battle tested since 2012, and our software is currently deployed on about 100,000 instances and nodes across some of the largest and most complex cloud deployments in the world. We’re an AWS ISV Accelerate partner focused on helping customers save money running Spark on Amazon EMR and Spark and microservices on Amazon EKS.