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Introducing Cloud Logging - Log Analytics, powered by BigQuery

Logging is a critical part of the software development lifecycle allowing developers to debug their apps, DevOps/SRE teams to troubleshoot issues, and security admins to analyze access. Cloud Logging provides a powerful pipeline to reliably ingest logs at scale and quickly find your logs. Today, we’re pleased to announce Log Analytics, a new set of features in Cloud Logging available in Preview, powered by BigQuery that allows you to gain even more insights and value from your logs.

5 Reasons Why Your Cloud Costs Are High

Bill shock stemming from surprisingly high cloud bills remains a persistent concern for enterprises that have migrated to the cloud. Cloud service providers often market the cloud as a highly effective means to lower operational costs. By moving their applications and processes to cloud-hosted infrastructures, organizations are saving money that would have gone to datacenters, hardware, and personnel.

How to Monitor Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Technology

One question many administrators are asking is: How can I effectively and efficiently monitor Azure Virtual Desktop technology? There are several options for monitoring Azure Virtual Desktop technology and this blog will cover some of the most popular ones. In this blog, we will focus on multi-session, native Azure virtual desktops.

A Smart Home System That Does Not Rely On a Cloud

The cloud has been discussed extensively in recent years. Some people believe that it is the future of computing, while others think that it is inherently insecure and unreliable. Whatever your opinion may be, one thing is for sure: the cloud is not right for every application. In this blog post, we will discuss a smart home system that does not rely on a cloud server. Stay tuned to learn more!

The Best Way to Control Kubernetes and Cloud Costs

Although reducing costs is one of the benefits organizations seek in deploying Kubernetes in the cloud, many organizations find it difficult or impossible to monitor and control their costs. The problem typically stems from a lack of visibility. For example, 53% of respondents in the Anodot State of Cloud Cost Report 202 2 said their biggest challenge to controlling costs is gaining visibility into their cloud usage and associated costs.

The 10-Step Framework To Developing A Cloud Cost Strategy

Cloud cost intelligence is a game-changing way to understand where your money is going and what that means for your business. Any company with a cloud services bill can benefit from a cloud cost intelligence strategy that outlines which spending decisions are beneficial and which should be scrapped in favor of something else. But let’s say you have done your background research and you understand what cloud cost intelligence is and why it matters. Where do you go from there?

Multi-cloud trends in the media sector

The cloud is helping organisations in the media and entertainment sector unlock new levels of efficiency and speed as they find themselves under pressure to produce and distribute content faster than ever before. In our latest blog we look at how a Network-as-a-Service model can enhance their multi-cloud strategy.

Open-source cloud for beginners with OpenStack

In the beginning, there was Amazon Web Services (AWS). And AWS set a standard for cloud computing. AWS was fast, flexible, convenient to use and geo-redundant. Definitely much better than legacy IT infrastructure or VMware. A lot of enterprises all over the world started migrating their business applications to AWS.

Top 6 services to Integrate with MetricFire

At MetricFire, we focus on integration with your infrastructure. As one of our business values, MetricFire strives to ensure you can integrate your infrastructure with our Hosted Graphite monitoring service easily. Our engineers are committed to going above and beyond in finding solutions to get our customers the insights they need.