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InfluxData Named a Winner in 2021-22 Cloud Awards

InfluxDB Cloud wins Best Use of the Cloud in the Internet of Things category SAN FRANCISCO, February 8, 2022 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced InfluxDB Cloud was named a winner in the 2021-22 Cloud Awards category for Best Use of the Cloud in the Internet of Things. Now in its 10th year, the Cloud Awards recognize innovation and excellence in cloud computing among startups and global enterprises.

[Infographic] AWS RDS from a Serverless perspective

In this article, we’ll deep dive into all the basics to help you decide if AWS RDS is the right decision for your architecture and help you hit the ground running if you do end up AWS RDS. For many decades now, relational databases (RDS) have been the place to store your data. They are pretty flexible often use some kind of SQL dialect, which is one of the main languages taught in computer science classes, and widely understood by the average developer.

What to Know About Azure SQL Database Serverless Compute Tier

Over the past several years, I've helped numerous customers migrate SQL Server workloads to Azure SQL, including Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure SQL Virtual Machines. In this article, I'll explain some of the challenges of optimizing the compute cost for an Azure SQL Database deployment and review how the serverless compute tier can greatly simplify it.

Azure Container Apps - an overview

Over the years, containerization has grown in popularity among organizations and will continue to grow. For example, containerization is slowly becoming the de facto approach when it comes to building applications following the microservices architecture. It is undeniable that containerization has a lot of advantages, but these advantages come at a cost.

Continuous EC2 Spot Market Prediction for Continuous Optimization

Using spot instances for mission-critical workloads always carried the risk of interruptions, making their use, while financially attractive, less than ideal from a reliability perspective. Spot by NetApp has made it possible for cloud consumers to use spot instances for dramatic cost savings while ensuring high availability for all kinds of workloads. Spot Availability Scores are core to our cloud infrastructure offerings, which are leveraged to provide maximum availability while mitigating risks.

How to Use Big Data with Spark Successfully Today

You’d probably struggle to find a big data practitioner who’s never heard of Apache Spark or used big data with Spark. We’d even go so far as to say it’s near impossible—and that’s for good reason. Spark is well known because it’s fast, reliable, and capable. Let’s dive into why that is, answer some common questions surrounding Spark computing, how to easily use it to achieve success, and more.

Five Ways To Reduce Your Cloud Security Blast Radius

It takes only a glance at the daily headlines to see that cybercriminals are using increasingly sophisticated methods to breach cloud defenses and access sensitive data. The complexity of cloud frameworks makes it extraordinarily difficult to detect nefarious activities. In many cases, attackers lurk in systems for weeks or months before pulling the trigger.

Finserv hybrid cloud strategy - it starts with Linux

The future of financial services technology infrastructure is hybrid multi-cloud. Hybrid multi-cloud architecture provides financial institutions flexibility, portability, interoperability, and the control needed to consistently deploy and manage enterprise applications and workloads. By adopting hybrid cloud, finservs realise the benefits of effective cloud cost management, security, compliance, efficiency and agility. The hybrid cloud strategy starts with choosing the right enterprise Linux.

Kubernetes Monitoring: A Beginner's Guide

Kubernetes monitoring involves tracking application performance and resource utilization across cluster components, such as pods, containers, and services. The goal is to gain visibility into the health and security of your clusters. Kubernetes provides built-in features for monitoring, including the resource metrics pipeline that tracks several metrics like node CPU and memory usage and a full metrics pipeline.

The 3 Most Common Questions We Get About Cloud Cost Intelligence

As cloud use has increased, so have the costs associated with it. In 2020, surveyed organizations reported being over budget for their cloud spend by an average of 23%. Most are spending more than they expected, and to top it off — they don’t feel they’re getting value from that spend.