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Insurtech Leader Reduces Azure Cloud Spend by $860K with Savepro

Cloud investments grow with your business, and for many companies, cloud costs can scale quickly as new services, features, and data demands enter the fold. For an Insurtech company working closely with Azure, their rapid growth brought equally expanding cloud costs. They turned to 2bcloud to help them streamline and optimize, looking for more efficient ways to manage this growth sustainably.

Publishing Clean-up Activities to Azure DevOps Plan

This video helps users uncover and clean up unused resources in their Azure environment. It covers practical steps for detecting idle resources—like virtual machines, SQL databases, and unattached disks—that can quietly drive-up costs if left unchecked. Discover how to set up a structured cleanup plan and integrate it with Azure DevOps, enabling teams to manage cleanup tasks as work items within their workflows. By organizing and prioritizing these activities, teams can efficiently reduce waste and optimize their cloud spend.

12 SaaS Reporting Tools To Consider For Your Business

SaaS has transformed from just a convenient cloud solution into the leading driver of the rapidly expanding cloud computing sector. With its market value projected to reach $716.52 billion by 2028, nearly all organizations globally will use SaaS in some capacity. Yet, SaaS without reporting is like running a business without a budget — you’re operating but have no idea where your resources are going.

100% ROI Guarantee: You Don't Pay If You Don't Save

Optimizing data-intensive workloads typically takes months of planning and significant human effort to put cost-saving tools and processes in place. Every passing day increases the risk of additional expenditures—outlays that cost the business money and time, and that cause delays to new revenue-generating GenAI or AgenticAI projects. Remove the risk from optimization with Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer’s 100% ROI Guarantee.

SharePoint and Microsoft Information Protection

Managing sensitive information within an organization is no easy task, particularly when it involves archiving documents that are protected by Microsoft Information Protection (MIP). The challenge lies not only in the act of archiving but in ensuring that these documents remain secure, compliant, and accessible when needed. In this article, we’ll explore the intricacies of handling MIP-protected documents in SharePoint, especially when archiving them using Squirrel.

The AI Time Bomb: How Martech Can Prepare For Surging OpEx Costs

For the past two years, AI enthusiasts have been treated to a nonstop procession of lightspeed innovations. ChatGPT rang the era in with a bang; millions of blogs, emails, trivia questions, and sonnets later, Microsoft etched the writing on the wall with its $10 billion investment in OpenAI, ChatGPT’s progenitor. Since then, companies from Alphabet to Zoom have scrambled to somehow, some way, integrate AI into their core offerings.

Snowflake Vs. Databricks: Which Data Cloud Platform Should You Use Now?

Snowflake and Databricks are both robust data platforms. Both are built for speed, scale, and cloud-native applications. They also prioritize efficiency and adherence to strict data protection protocols. Yet each adopts a distinct approach and features suited to its architecture and various use cases. It is these differences that can make all the difference in the way your data is processed, analyzed, reported, and more.

Choosing the Right Wireless Access Point for Your Business

We all rely on the Internet to conduct business, and it has become the heart of how we work, relax, and gather information. Businesses rely on a strong internet connection to communicate with employees, hold video conferences, access cloud infrastructures, and use other business-based tools for smooth operation and collaboration. As businesses expand and demand for their platforms grows, companies need a reliable internet connection to avoid downtime and loss of money.

Product Release Notes October 2024

The easier it is for you to get data into CloudZero, the easier it’ll be to maximize your cloud efficiency. This month’s updates have entirely to do with ease of use: a drag-and-drop method to get unit cost metric data into the product, an improved MongoDB integration, and continued improvements to our AnyCost API and cost integrations.

Understanding IoT Logging Formats in Azure and AWS

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are everywhere you look. From the smartwatch on your wrist to the security cameras protecting your offices, connected IoT devices transmit all kinds of data. However, these compact devices are different from the other technologies your organization uses. Unlike traditional devices, IoT devices lack a standardized set of security capabilities, making them easier for attackers to exploit.