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Understanding Provisioning In IT: A Complete Guide For 2024

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.

Medallion Lakehouse Architecture in Microsoft Fabric

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.

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

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.

What Is Cloud Management and Why Is It Important?

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?

Six Key Differences Between Major Cloud Providers

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.

13 Snowflake Tools To Help Monitor Cloud Storage And Usage

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.

Cloud Financial Operations: Strategies for Cost Management

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.

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

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.