Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

October 2024

datadog

Best practices for monitoring cloud costs with Datadog Scorecards

Oct 31, 2024 By Amrita Lakhanpal In Datadog
To ensure that your organization’s cloud spend is efficient, you need detailed and granular visibility to understand what comprises your costs, what causes them to change, and how the cloud services and resources you use are enabling your business goals. Extending your visibility and more closely monitoring your cloud costs can position you to successfully adopt FinOps, which provides a framework that can help you maximize the value you get from your cloud spend.
Read Post
sumologic

Differentiating Sumo Logic Mo Copilot using Amazon Bedrock

Oct 31, 2024 By Bashyam Anant In Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic Mo Copilot is a natural language assistant that helps first responders derive insights from logs and resolve issues faster using contextual suggestions and plain English queries. It has been in preview since May 2024 with dozens of customers. Choosing a foundation model was a critical step in its development. Let’s explore our high-level requirements for Copilot, the role of foundation models and the rationale for standardizing on Amazon Bedrock.
Read Post
opsmatters

Hybrid Cloud Strategies: Balancing Cost, Performance, and Security

Oct 31, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Keeping data is an essential process for businesses in the 21st century. Data like customer information, financial records, product details, company projects, future plans, and more are what ensure businesses keep thriving and ensure smooth operation. In fact, 95% of businesses rely on statistical data to make informed decisions.
Read Post
site24x7

What is OCI monitoring and why is it essential?

Oct 30, 2024 By Ramji Y In Site24x7
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a powerful, comprehensive cloud platform that supports a wide range of enterprise workloads. Whether you're running complex databases, applications, or large-scale analytics, OCI offers the infrastructure to handle it all. But as with any robust cloud environment, effective monitoring is crucial to ensure performance, security, and cost-efficiency.
Read Post
site24x7

Leveraging monitoring to build scalable data pipeline with Amazon Kinesis

Oct 30, 2024 By Ramji Y In Site24x7
In today's data-driven world, businesses need to collect, process, and analyze large volumes of data in real-time to make informed decisions. Amazon Kinesis, a powerful streaming platform, helps companies build scalable and resilient data pipelines. However, ensuring that the pipeline functions efficiently requires robust monitoring practices.
Read Post
cloudzero

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.
Read Post
anodot

Anodot recognized as a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Management Tools Report

Oct 30, 2024 By Anodot In Anodot
The cloud financial landscape is expanding with more vendors for companies to choose from to maintain healthy cloud costs. As the market grows, it’s important to partner with a third-party cloud financial management tool built on FinOps innovation and consistently adapt to meet future customer needs. A credible source recommending the right cloud cost tool can help you make an informed choice that positively impacts your cloud cost optimization.
Read Post

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.
View Video
spot

NetApp named as a major player in IDC MarketScape: Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) cloud cost and capacity optimization

Oct 29, 2024 By Bobby Gaffin In Spot
NetApp is excited to announce that it has been named a major player in the first IDC MarketScape: Asia Pacific (excluding Japan), (APEJ), Cloud Cost and Capacity Optimization 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc, September 2024).
Read Post
pulsant

Northern Exposure: the confidence connecting Scotland and the Nordics to drive data centre evolution

Oct 29, 2024 By Pulsant In Pulsant
Scotland has a strong historical record in seeking out and supporting data centre investment. The Green Datacentres and Digital Connectivity: Vision and Action plan is already four years old. However, time has not dampened enthusiasm. The renewed interest in data centre investment that has followed encouraging comments from Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has spread across the UK.
Read Post
ivanti

Cloud Migration Benefits - and the Challenges to Overcome

Oct 29, 2024 By John Armstrong In Ivanti
Cloud migration has become a strategic priority for many organizations. By moving data, applications and IT resources from on-premises infrastructure to a cloud-based environment, they can see multiple benefits. But cloud migration also comes with its own unique challenges. Gaining a deeper understanding of both the benefits and possible pitfalls of cloud computing is crucial before embarking on your cloud journey.
Read Post

Building Robust Solutions on Azure: Insights from Industry Experts

Oct 29, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
Building robust solutions on Azure is essential in today’s cloud-driven world, where performance, availability, and resilience are the cornerstones of successful applications. In a recent episode of Azure on Air podcast, we brought together leading Azure experts to dive deep into these critical aspects of cloud architecture. From overcoming the challenges of distributed systems to mastering performance optimization, the conversation explored the ins and outs of creating high-performing, reliable solutions on Microsoft Azure.
View Video

End to end tracking of Azure Function Apps

Oct 29, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
In this video, Mike Stephenson explores a practical use case for gaining transparency in Azure Function integrations that help in end-to-end tracking of Azure Function Apps. Discover how leveraging Application Insights can help your team gain visibility into hidden integrations and improve operational efficiency. Learn how one customer successfully implemented this solution to streamline their processes and reduce support ticket escalations.
View Video
cloudzero

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.
Read Post
onlineornot

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.
Read Post
pulsant

Local presence today, global potential tomorrow: using colocation to access an ecosystem that drives growth

Oct 28, 2024 By Pulsant In Pulsant
In an era where modern commerce is inseparable from technology, digital transformation has become crucial for businesses to survive and thrive in all markets. Scotland has led the way in understanding the impact of this shift. In August 2023, the Independent Expert Group (IEG) on Unlocking the Value of Data delivered its report to the Digital Directorate, covering private sector use of public sector personal data.
Read Post
pulsant

Looking to the edge to secure the legal industry

Oct 28, 2024 By Pulsant In Pulsant
The 2023 National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) report into the UK legal sector warns that a failure to: “maintain appropriate cyber security measures… can have exceptionally negative consequences for a legal practice and its clients". Current figures cite that 65% of UK law firms have been victims of cyber incidents . Elsewhere, another report revealed that 72% - almost three-quarters - of UK-headquartered law firms have at least one employee password on the dark web.
Read Post
spot

Re-evaluating your VMware infrastructure strategy? 3 Ways to maximize your savings with NetApp and Azure

Oct 28, 2024 By Lauren Dyer In Spot
Since its acquisition of VMware, Broadcom has made significant changes to their licensing model, which have had an impact on many customers’ licensing costs. These changes have disrupted, and in some cases, completely upended VMware customers’ existing platform strategy, becoming a forcing function for them to carefully assess the potential risks to the business and the future impact they may have on their VMware infrastructure platforms.
Read Post
turbo360

Azure Function and APIM: The Ultimate Tool for Business Data Tracking

Oct 28, 2024 By Nadeem Ahamed In Turbo360
The Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) module is designed to shift support “left,” meaning it empowers support operators to identify and address issues earlier in the process by providing them with a business-friendly view of the underlying complex infrastructure. This makes it easier for operators to understand and manage critical processes without needing to have expert skills in the technical complexities of Azure.
Read Post
2bcloud

Medallion Lakehouse Architecture in Microsoft Fabric

Oct 27, 2024 By Evgeniy Golovashev In 2bcloud
When managing data in the Azure Cloud, data extraction, transformation, and governance are the core of any organization’s data management strategy. Microsoft Fabric, combined with the Medallion Architecture design pattern, allows organizations to leverage the power of Azure to meet their goals by delivering reliable, governed data for business use and reporting.
Read Post
cloudzero

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.
Read Post
megaport

Six Key Differences Between Major Cloud Providers

Oct 25, 2024 By Matt Bero In Megaport
Demystify your private cloud options with our comparison of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. On a typical day at Megaport, our Solutions team helps a lot of customers with a lot of questions. And in my time here, I’ve noticed these questions often follow the same theme: What’s the best way to connect to their cloud service providers? The reality is that there’s no simple answer to this question.
Read Post
Internxt

What Is Cloud Management and Why Is It Important?

Oct 25, 2024 By Internxt In Internxt
Despite advances in technology, many businesses still struggle to effectively manage data in a cost-effective, secure, and manageable way. Cloud storage is becoming the go-to method for companies to store data, with 94% of major companies worldwide utilizing cloud computing. Corporate data also makes up 60% of data stored in the cloud. So as demands continue to grow, and compliance and data protection laws become more stringent, how can businesses effectively manage their cloud needs?
Read Post

Cloud Control Ep #30 Balancing Innovation and Turst in Cloud Storage with Ali Zafar

Oct 25, 2024 By Spot In Spot
In the latest episode of Cloud Control, Ali Zafar, the Vice President of Engineering for Hybrid Infrastructure at Dropbox, joins host Shon Harris to discuss the challenges of managing a multi exabyte infrastructure. Ali shares his background working at companies like Tesla, Google, and Cisco, and how they have shaped his approach to cloud and hybrid infrastructure. He emphasizes the importance of leveraging emerging technologies like AI and the significance of culture and relationships in driving innovation and efficiency.
View Video
logicmonitor

How to scale observability for AWS hybrid and multi-cloud environments

Oct 24, 2024 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
Managing observability across hybrid and multi-cloud environments is like flying a fleet of planes, each with different routes, altitudes, and destinations. You’re not just piloting a single aircraft; you’re coordinating across multiple clouds, on-premises systems, and services while ensuring performance, availability, and cost-efficiency. AWS customers, in particular, face challenges with workloads spanning multiple regions, data centers, and cloud providers.
Read Post
Internxt

Cloud Infrastructure: What Is It and How It Can Benefit Your Business

Oct 24, 2024 By Internxt In Internxt
For many businesses, one of the worst scenarios is losing their data, having sensitive information leaked, experiencing hardware failure, or being attacked by ransomware. Without the necessary security measures and proper cloud infrastructure, businesses need to face the reality that they could lose millions. In today’s competitive and digital world, your business operations' safety, scalability, and efficiency must be protected.
Read Post
ivanti

Cloud Migration: Optimize Business Outcomes with Patch Management

Oct 24, 2024 By Mariah Shotts In Ivanti
The IT landscape is ever evolving and with vulnerabilities only growing, maintaining the security and stability of your systems is now more critical than ever. Because any increase in vulnerabilities leads to an increase in risk. According to Verizon, exploitation of vulnerabilities increased 180% year over year. And research from Google has shown that zero-day exploits have seen a 50% year-over-year increase.
Read Post
ScienceLogic

Comprehensive Observability: Key User Experience Metrics to Monitor in Cloud Environments

Oct 24, 2024 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
As we conclude our three-part series on key observability metrics ScienceLogic monitors, this blog focuses on the analysis and impact of user experience (UX) metrics to shed light on their business impact. Whether it’s an internal business application or a customer-facing platform, a seamless and efficient user experience can significantly impact satisfaction, productivity, and loyalty.
Read Post

Mastering Cybersecurity: From Integration to Real-World Threats and AI

Oct 24, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
In this episode of Azure on Air, Nino Crudele dives into the world of cybersecurity, revealing critical insights on safeguarding digital data. Drawing from personal experiences and real-world hacking stories, Nino unpacks how threats like social engineering and the dark web operate. He also explores the role of artificial intelligence, showing both its potential to strengthen and undermine security efforts. This episode is a must-listen for anyone wanting to stay informed about emerging cyber risks and learn best practices for protecting their online presence.
View Video

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.
View Video
smikar

Microsoft Teams vs. SharePoint. The Ultimate Guide

Oct 23, 2024 By Mark In SmiKar Software
In today’s fast-paced, digitally-driven work environment, effective collaboration and content management are crucial for success. Microsoft offers two powerful tools to help you achieve these goals: Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. While both platforms are designed to enhance productivity, they serve distinct purposes. In this in-depth comparison, we’ll explore the strengths of each tool, examine real-world scenarios, and provide actionable tips to help you make informed decisions.
Read Post
cloudzero

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?
Read Post
pulsant

The digital evolution of Dun Eideann

Oct 23, 2024 By Pulsant In Pulsant
Since the 2011 Scottish Digital Strategy, Scotland's political and economic commitment to the technology industry has been consistent and substantial. The 2020 Scottish Technology Ecosystem Review and the subsequent TechScaler startup programme are great examples of this dedication at work today. Edinburgh's vital role in these plans has been equally long-standing.
Read Post
turbo360

Azure VM Recommendations: A Comprehensive Guide

Oct 23, 2024 By Srihari Senthil In Turbo360
Microsoft Azure offers a wide range of Virtual Machines (VMs) to suit various use cases, making it a flexible platform for organizations of all sizes. However, choosing the right VM for your workload can be challenging, especially with Azure’s continuously expanding portfolio. This blog aims to provide detailed Azure VM recommendations to help optimize your cost, performance, and operational efficiency.
Read Post
manageengine

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.
Read Post
qovery

Qovery Joins the AWS ISV Accelerate Program

Oct 22, 2024 By Romaric Philogène In Qovery
We are proud to announce that Qovery has been officially accepted into the AWS ISV Accelerate Program as of October 21, 2024. This strategic achievement is a game changer for both Qovery and our customers, offering new avenues for collaboration and growth through an integrated go-to-market approach with AWS.
Read Post
VictoriaMetrics

Monitoring Azure AKS & Azure Linux with VictoriaMetrics

Oct 22, 2024 By Zakhar Bessarab In VictoriaMetrics
Azure linux is a Linux distribution built for Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. It can be used as a base OS when creating node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. Using Azure linux as a base OS for AKS node pools has several benefits, such as lower resources footprint, faster boot times, and better security.
Read Post
datadog

Monitor your Azure OpenAI applications with Datadog LLM Observability

Oct 22, 2024 By Thomas Sobolik In Datadog
Azure OpenAI Service is Microsoft’s fully managed platform for deploying generative AI services powered by OpenAI. Azure OpenAI Service provides access to models including GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, DALLE-3, and the Embeddings model series, alongside the enterprise security, governance, and infrastructure capabilities of Azure.
Read Post
Aiven

Aiven Achieves the AWS Retail Competency & Hosts AWS Immersion Day

Oct 22, 2024 By Elena Zykova In Aiven
Transforming retail: Aiven and AWS empower businesses with real-time data insights for better customer experiences. We’re excited to announce that Aiven has achieved the prestigious AWS Retail Competency, in the category of Advanced Data Insights. Achieving the AWS Retail Competency recognizes Aiven’s expertise in providing customers with software solutions that empower retailers to gain valuable data insights to drive business success.
Read Post
cloudzero

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.
Read Post
eg innovations

Monitoring and Troubleshooting Nerdio

Oct 21, 2024 By Karthik G In eG Innovations
Today I’ll give a brief overview on monitoring and troubleshooting Nerdio, a.NET application, popular with MSPs (Managed Service Providers) and enterprises using Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Nerdio is a cloud-based application used by administrators to automate the deployment and management of virtual desktops in Azure.
Read Post

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.
View Video
Internxt

12 Business Process Improvement Tools to Increase Productivity & Efficiency

Oct 18, 2024 By Internxt In Internxt
No matter how well businesses run, team leads, or project managers are always searching for ways to run business operations faster and more efficiently. Even when projects and management plan effectively, processes can still become stuck, face delays, or data becomes disorganized.
Read Post
cloudzero

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.
Read Post

End-to-end tracking for Azure Data Factory

Oct 18, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
This video by Michael Stephenson focuses on utilizing Turbo360's Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) data query feature in conjunction with Azure Data Factory. It begins with an introduction to the architecture, highlighting how data factory diagnostic settings can push events to a Log Analytics workspace for tracking purposes.
View Video
lumigo

Leveraging AI for Predictive Analytics in Observability

Oct 18, 2024 By Winston Bowden In Lumigo
Predictive analytics has become a key goal in observability. If teams can foresee potential system failures, performance bottlenecks, or resource constraints before they happen, they can act preemptively to mitigate issues. AI holds the promise of making this possible. In this post, we explore how AI can push observability toward predictive analytics, the industry’s current hurdles, and practical use cases for leveraging AI today.
Read Post
turbo360

Getting transparency on hidden Azure Function Integrations

Oct 17, 2024 By Michael Stephenson In Turbo360
Recently we released a new feature for Business Activity Monitoring and one of our customers was able to get almost immediate value from this feature with an integration use case they were struggling to support. The solution implemented involves the source data coming from various operational technology systems that push data to an event hub.
Read Post

End-to-end tracking for Azure APIM

Oct 17, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
In the video, Michael Stephenson discusses the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) data queries feature and its integration with API management, emphasizing its role in enhancing operational insights. He explains how the tool allows users to query both App Insights and Log Analytics, enabling the creation of user-friendly views for non-technical users, such as support operators.
View Video
onpage

Cloud Engineer - Roles and Responsibilities

Oct 17, 2024 By Zoe Collins In OnPage
Cloud engineers have become a vital part of many organizations – orchestrating cloud services to create seamless digital experiences for clients. With responsibilities spanning across cloud security to troubleshooting incidents, cloud engineers are key to keeping modern businesses running efficiently. And as the need for cloud expertise continues to rise, so do opportunities in the field.
Read Post
grafana

How to quickly configure Grafana Cloud Application Observability with Open Telemetry Operator

Oct 17, 2024 By Lionel Marks In Grafana
Monitoring application health is a lot like monitoring your personal health. Vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, and overall well-being can spot problems before they escalate, helping us maintain good health. Similarly, application health requires constant monitoring of performance indicators like CPU usage, memory consumption, and application response times.
Read Post
sumologic

Stronger together: Sumo Logic and AWS partnership expands with five new competencies

Oct 17, 2024 By Hussein Sherif In Sumo Logic
For over a decade, we’ve worked closely with AWS to help our joint customers ensure the health and security of their mission-critical applications. That’s why we’re so excited to have recently renewed our Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with AWS and to announce five new AWS competencies across multiple industries.
Read Post
devart

How to Migrate MySQL Database to Amazon RDS or Aurora

Oct 16, 2024 By Nataly Smith In Devart
Amazon cloud storage offers a scalable and secure way to keep and access data across multiple devices. As to Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service), it provides automated backups, software patching, and scaling without the need for manual intervention. In this guide, we are going to walk you through the process of transferring a database from a local machine or a traditional server to AWS with the help of the command line as well as with a convenient GUI – dbForge Studio for MySQL.
Read Post
qovery

AWS vs GCP vs Azure: Which Cloud Platform is Best for your Business?

Oct 16, 2024 By Morgan Perry In Qovery
Are you a startup struggling to choose the right cloud platform for your business? With so many options available, it can be overwhelming to determine which vendor best suits your needs. This article will compare AWS, GCP, and Azure based on key factors such as pricing, compliance, security, scalability, ease of use, and their specific benefits for startups. After you have gone through this article, you will have a clearer understanding of which cloud platform is the best fit for your business.
Read Post
turbo360

Azure Logic Apps Consumption: The Ultimate Tool for Business Data Tracking

Oct 16, 2024 By Nadeem Ahamed In Turbo360
In the latest release of Turbo360, significant improvements have been made to the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) module. This module is designed to shift support “left,” meaning it empowers support operators to identify and address issues earlier in the process by providing them with a business-friendly view of the underlying complex infrastructure.
Read Post
cloudzero

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.
Read Post

Real-time application monitoring and bottleneck detection l Blackfire

Oct 16, 2024 By Platform.sh In Platform.sh
Blackfire's continuous observability solution empowers developers to monitor their applications' real-time behavior and proactively identify existing bottlenecks or the consequences of upcoming changes before they reach production. By speeding up the discovery process and allowing long-term performance optimization, Blackfire lets developers stay in control, even during crises, to build and grow their applications confidently.
View Video
cloudzero

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?
Read Post
turbo360

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.
Read Post

Introducing pipe syntax in BigQuery and Cloud Logging

Oct 15, 2024 By Google Operations In Google Operations
Writing complex SQL queries can be challenging, but BigQuery's new pipe syntax offers a more intuitive way to structure your code. Learn how pipe syntax simplifies both exploratory analysis and complex log analytics tasks, helping you gain insights faster. Watch along and discover how to leverage pipe syntax in BigQuery for a more efficient analytics experience.
View Video
ScienceLogic

Comprehensive Observability: Key Performance Metrics to Monitor in Cloud Environments

Oct 15, 2024 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
Enterprises need strong observability to ensure system reliability, proactively detect and resolve issues, optimize performance, enhance security, and maintain seamless business operations across complex distributed environments.
Read Post
cloudzero

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.
Read Post
logitio

Azure Logging Unleashed: Your Key to Cloud Performance

Oct 11, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
The Azure Cloud platform processes an extensive variety of data including Eventhub Diagnostic Logs, Kubernetes Metrics, SQL Logs, Activity Logs, Container Activity Logs, and Azure Metrics. Depending on the requirements of your organization these logs offer various levels of importance and priority. But it’s more than likely that you will be monitoring a large variety of these logs.
Read Post

End-to-end tracking for Azure Logic App Standard

Oct 10, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
Turbo360's BAM Data Queries feature is designed to provide end-to-end visibility into business processes and workflows, allowing you to track and monitor the entire flow of your integration platform. In this video, Michael Stephenson - Product owner for Turbo360, demonstrates how to leverage the BAM Data Queries feature in Turbo360 to create a user-friendly view of your workflow's transactions. This allows business users and support operators to monitor the integration platform without needing to be technical experts.
View Video

GitHub Copilot and Beyond: The Evolution of AI in Integration

Oct 10, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
This in-depth conversation with Martin Abbott, a seasoned expert in integration and AI, explores the transformative power of Gen AI Copilot. In this episode, Martin shares his journey in integration and AI, from his early days working with BizTalk to his current work with Gen AI. He provides a comprehensive overview of GitHub Copilot, including its features, benefits, and potential applications. It also discusses the importance of ethics and responsible AI development, as well as the real-world impact of Gen AI Copilot on various industries.
View Video
Densify

How Densify solves the cloud efficiency challenge

Oct 10, 2024 By Densify In Densify
The FinOps Foundation states that “For the first time, Reducing waste was the highest key priority for FinOps practitioners across all spending tiers. This may be influenced by macroeconomic trends, with businesses looking for ways to reduce spending without reducing the value they are getting from their cloud investments.”
Read Post
Densify

Kubernetes Autoscaling vs. Optimization: Understanding the Difference

Oct 9, 2024 By Densify In Densify
In cloud-native environments, autoscaling and optimization are often confused, yet they serve different purposes. While Kubernetes offers several built-in autoscaling features, these are often mistaken for optimization. In reality, autoscaling is reactive, responding to changing demands, whereas optimization is proactive, focused on configuring workloads efficiently from the start.
Read Post
megaport

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.
Read Post
cloudzero

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.
Read Post

End-to-end tracking of APIM and Azure Functions

Oct 9, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
In this video, Michael Stephenson, Turbo360's Product owner, demonstrates how to design and implement a seamless end-to-end tracking system for API management and Azure Functions, providing real-time visibility into business processes. Discover how to create a transaction, add stages, map fields, and create a query to retrieve data from App Insights. Also, learn how to create a simplified view of an end-to-end process for users, allowing them to see what's happening behind the scenes.
View Video
lumigo

Shaping the Next Generation of AI-Powered Observability

Oct 9, 2024 By Winston Bowden In Lumigo
Observability is crucial for maintaining complex systems’ health and performance. In its traditional form, observability involves monitoring key metrics, logging events, and tracing requests to ensure that applications and infrastructure run smoothly. The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to revolutionize the way organizations approach observability.
Read Post
c1

The Risks of Not Migrating to a Cloud-Based Unified Communications Solution

Oct 9, 2024 By Alain Mowad In C1
On-premises communication systems often require managing separate platforms for phone, email, video conferencing, and instant messaging. This fragmentation creates operational inefficiencies that slow down workflows. Employees waste time switching between tools, leading to delays in communication and collaboration. The risk of staying with outdated systems is that your team will continue to operate with these silos, ultimately reducing productivity and making it harder to compete in fast-paced markets.
Read Post
manageengine

Azure monitoring in Applications Manager

Oct 8, 2024 By Applications Manager In ManageEngine
Azure monitoring involves tracking and analyzing the health and performance of your cloud infrastructure hosted on Microsoft Azure. It involves gaining real-time insights into the performance of Azure resources, such as virtual machines, databases, and applications, enabling you to identify and resolve issues before they impact your operations. With a plethora of options available in the market, choosing the right Azure monitoring software can be a daunting task.
Read Post
Platform.sh

Driving sustainability and excellence: a FinOps story at Platform.sh

Oct 8, 2024 By Sumaira Nazir In Platform.sh
FinOps Professional Sumaira Nazir defines herself by her commitment to growth. With a master's degree in psychology and a background in both business analysis and project management, Sumaira’s passion for self-improvement means she’s always in pursuit of her next professional milestone. In fact, this love of learning is part of what drew her to Platform.sh.
Read Post
ivanti

Cloud Migration: Unlock the Full Power of Your Unified Endpoint Management Solution

Oct 8, 2024 By Mariah Shotts In Ivanti
To understand the challenges facing modern IT teams in managing a diverse range of endpoints, one word that keeps coming up? Proliferation. Organizations are faced with a rapidly expanding ecosystem of network devices, tools and assets–some of which are so hidden from view that IT doesn’t even realize they exist.
Read Post
InvGate

Private Cloud Providers: 10 Best Options And Key Features to Consider

Oct 8, 2024 By Natalí Valle In InvGate
While not every organization will opt for a private cloud, those who do must navigate a challenging market with numerous options. But what exactly are private cloud providers? How do they differ from other options, like public or hybrid cloud models? Understanding these distinctions is essential for selecting a provider that meets your organization's specific needs and strategic goals. Let's explore how the private cloud works, the features it provides, and what to look for when choosing a provider.
Read Post
anodot

Autoscaling in Cloud Computing

Oct 8, 2024 By David Drai In Anodot
Autoscaling in cloud computing is the ability of a system to adjust its resources in response to changes in demand automatically. This guarantees that applications always have the resources they need to perform optimally, even during periods of high traffic. Autoscaling eliminates manual intervention, allowing your dev team time to focus on your product. All major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform offer robust autoscaling solutions with many features and capabilities.
Read Post
cloudzero

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.
Read Post
dashbird

Making serverless applications reliable and bug-free

Oct 7, 2024 By Taavi Rehemägi In Dashbird
Building applications using serverless technology on AWS—like AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway—can be incredibly powerful. You get to scale effortlessly and focus on writing code without worrying about managing servers. But as your application grows and spreads across hundreds or even thousands of cloud resources, keeping track of errors and fixing issues quickly becomes a big challenge.
Read Post

Artificial intelligence in healthcare: transforming the practice of medicine

Oct 7, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
In this episode of the Azure On Air podcast, Mick Badran joins our host to discuss his journey in the integration space and how he's applying AI and integration in the healthcare industry. He dives into the challenges and opportunities of using AI in healthcare and also shares his experiences with building a healthcare startup and working with medical professionals to improve patient outcomes.
View Video
opsmatters

How Technology Is Transforming Law Firms for Greater Efficiency

Oct 6, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
The legal industry has long been known for its traditional approaches and slow adaptation to change. However, technology is increasingly transforming the way law firms operate, making them more efficient and client-focused. From automation tools to virtual meetings, advancements in technology are streamlining workflows, reducing costs, and allowing lawyers to focus more on strategy and client engagement. This article will explore the various ways technology is revolutionizing law firms and enhancing their efficiency.
Read Post
cloudzero

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.
Read Post
ScienceLogic

Comprehensive Observability: Key Availability and Reliability Metrics to Monitor in Cloud Environments

Oct 4, 2024 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
Strong observability in cloud environments is essential for monitoring the health of interconnected systems. Unlike traditional monitoring, which is limited to specific cloud stacks or devices, observability provides comprehensive visibility across the entire hybrid IT infrastructure including applications, IT systems and services.
Read Post
smikar

Moving SharePoint Online Documents to Azure Blob Storage

Oct 4, 2024 By Mark In SmiKar Software
Managing large volumes of documents in SharePoint Online can become challenging as storage needs grow. With rising storage costs and limits, organizations often look for efficient ways to offload files. One highly scalable and cost-effective solution is moving documents from SharePoint Online to Azure Blob Storage.
Read Post

Cloud Control Ep #29 Open Source Revolution How CNCF is Reshaping Cloud Infrastructure

Oct 4, 2024 By Spot In Spot
In this episode, our host, Shon Harris, introduces Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and a seasoned professional in the cloud industry, who explores his journey and experiences. With a wealth of knowledge and expertise, Chris sheds light on various aspects of cloud computing, from the evolution of cloud technology to the latest trends and innovations. This episode offers a comprehensive overview of the industry and provides valuable insights for both aspiring and seasoned professionals in the field.
View Video
turbo360

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.
Read Post
tigera

Why Kubernetes is removing in-tree cloud-provider integration support in v1.31, and how it can affect you

Oct 3, 2024 By Reza Ramezanpour In Tigera
Kubernetes is known for its modularity, and its integration with cloud environments. Throughout its history, Kubernetes provided in-tree cloud provider integrations with most providers, allowing us to create cloud-related resources via API calls without requiring us to jump through hoops to deploy a cluster that utilizes the power of underlying networking infrastructure. However, this behavior will change with the release of Kubernetes v1.31, and right now is the best time to plan for it.
Read Post
solarwinds

Are You Managing Your Hybrid Cloud by Default?

Oct 3, 2024 By Eric Seidman In SolarWinds
In today's technology landscape, the hybrid cloud has become the backbone of today’s IT strategies. Combining the flexibility of public cloud services with the control of private infrastructure, hybrid cloud environments offer a balance of scalability, cost efficiency, and data sovereignty. But let’s be real: Managing these complex ecosystems isn't easy.
Read Post

End-to-end Tracking of Azure Logic Apps consumption

Oct 3, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
In this video, Mike Stephenson demonstrates how to use a new feature in Turbo360's Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to create a business process dashboard for Azure Logic App consumption. Learn how to easily integrate with Azure Monitor's diagnostic settings and create a friendly view of your transactions, empowering your users to see what's going on in your integration platform.
View Video
cloudzero

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.
Read Post
cloudzero

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.
Read Post
solarwinds

Elevating SolarWinds Observability for Hybrid IT Environments

Oct 2, 2024 By Jeff Stewart In SolarWinds
Exciting times here at SolarWinds. We’re uniting our Self-Hosted and SaaS observability offerings under a single umbrella, SolarWinds Observability, and announcing a host of enhancements that will allow us to go even further to meet our customers' hybrid IT needs. Let’s take a look at what’s in store.
Read Post
canonical

Launching Your Ubuntu Confidential VM with Intel TDX on Google Cloud: A Guide to Enhanced Security

Oct 2, 2024 By Hugo Huang In Canonical
In the world of cloud computing, we rely on abstraction layers to manage complex systems. While this simplifies development, it also creates vulnerabilities for sensitive data. Traditionally, privileged software within the cloud has access to your data, and could pose a significant security risk, if not managed properly. But there’s a new way to protect your data: confidential computing.
Read Post
canonical

Ubuntu powers Azure's confidential AI offering

Oct 2, 2024 By Jehudi In Canonical
Microsoft Azure has announced the general availability of their confidential virtual machines (VMs) with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, powered by Ubuntu. This offering combines the hardware-based protection of AMD EPYC processors with NVIDIA’s latest GPU technology to enable secure and high-performance AI workloads in the cloud. Combining these technologies allows sensitive sectors to unlock AI adoption through addressing previous concerns of critical data privacy.
Read Post
datadog

Reduce your AWS Step Functions' error remediation time by redriving executions directly from Datadog

Oct 2, 2024 By Jake Greenberg In Datadog
AWS enables customers to retry or redrive Step Functions executions to continue any failed executions of Standard Workflows from their points of failure while maintaining all inputs. For example, if you find broken downstream logic in your code or experience unexpected errors upon execution, you can remediate those errors by fully re-running an execution or use redrive to continue this execution.
Read Post

Unified observability Maximize visibility & control of multi cloud environments

Oct 2, 2024 By Digitate In Digitate
In today’s multi-cloud world, gaining real-time visibility across complex infrastructure is vital for business resilience and IT efficiency. However, traditional observability tools often fall short, leaving gaps in data collection and actionable insights. This is where unified observability comes in. Unified observability is Digitate’s unique approach, enabling organizations to monitor and control their business, applications, and infrastructure layers from a single pane of glass.
View Video
bunnyshell

Bunnyshell: The Best Qovery Alternative for Modern Cloud Deployment

Oct 1, 2024 By Bunnyshell team In Bunnyshell
When it comes to automating DevOps processes and managing cloud environments, both Bunnyshell and Qovery have gained significant traction. While both platforms provide multi-cloud deployment, automation, and developer-friendly interfaces, there are key differences between the two. Bunnyshell offers several advanced features that make it a standout alternative to Qovery, particularly for teams seeking more control, flexibility, and efficiency in managing their cloud environments.
Read Post
bunnyshell

Heroku Alternatives: Why Bunnyshell is the Best Choice for Modern Cloud Deployment

Oct 1, 2024 By Bunnyshell team In Bunnyshell
With Heroku announcing significant changes, such as the discontinuation of its free tier, developers are left seeking alternatives that offer similar ease of use but more robust and scalable options. While Heroku was once the go-to for rapid deployment and management of applications, several alternatives now stand out, each offering unique benefits on different cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, DigitalOcean, Linode, Hetzner, Vultr, and Scaleway.
Read Post
cloudzero

Cloud Management Software: 15+ Platforms To Consider Today

Oct 1, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
The cloud offers many benefits, including scalability, cost savings, and operational efficiency. But here’s the deal. Organizing, monitoring, and controlling a cloud environment can become complex as workloads, applications, services, and underlying infrastructure grow. Businesses can better control and monitor their cloud infrastructure services, resources, and data using cloud management software.
Read Post
Platform.sh

Platform.sh now a Certified B Corp, continues to aim for the stars

Oct 1, 2024 By Platform.sh In Platform.sh
Platform.sh was built on a set of core principles: positive impact, caring for others, fairness, aiming for the stars. Since 2015, our founders have followed their own true north, creating a cloud application platform and technologies that would make developers’ daily lives easier. Like most for-profit businesses, the leadership team sought marketplace differentiation. Revenue growth. Continuous innovation. But they wanted something more.
Read Post
pulsant

Partnering for the planet: our investment in a supplier education programme to step up environmental responsibility in Pulsant's supply chain

Oct 1, 2024 By Pulsant In Pulsant
As part of Pulsant’s commitment to make a positive difference to our environment, we recently pushed ourselves forwards in value chain engagement and brought together a cohort of SME suppliers for a series of in-person decarbonisation workshops. In association with sustainability specialists SLR Consulting, our investment in these sessions supported our suppliers in understanding the landscape of decarbonisation and establishing their own action plans.
Read Post
Kentik

Unleashing the Power of Kentik Data Explorer for Cloud Engineers

Oct 1, 2024 By Phil Gervasi In Kentik
Kentik Data Explorer is a powerful tool designed for engineers managing complex environments. It provides comprehensive visibility across various cloud platforms by ingesting and enriching telemetry data from sources like AWS, GCP, and Azure, and with the ability to explore data through granular filters and dimensions, engineers can quickly analyze cloud performance, detect security threats, and control costs in real-time exploration and historically.
Read Post

Copyright © 2024 OpsMatters™. All rights reserved.