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How to Choose Workflow Management Software for Your Business

Every team faces challenges in its daily operations that affect its operational efficiency, preventing it from hitting its weekly, monthly, and quarterly KPIs. It could be miscommunication, repetitive tasks on their to-do list requiring manual input, or a disjointed team. Fortunately, a good workflow management tool can help you streamline all your business tasks, improve team connectivity, and reduce operational errors.

Now available on Microsoft Azure: Cisco AppDynamics provides more flexibility

Cisco is expanding its strategic partnership with Microsoft by offering AppDynamics as a hosted solution on Microsoft Azure — providing more flexibility and choice to customers. This article originally appeared on the Cisco Executives blog. I’m pleased to announce that Cisco AppDynamics is now available on Microsoft Azure hosted in North America for customers and partners globally.

Azure Reserved Instances - Your Ultimate Guide

If your business has predictable compute workloads and wants to save on Azure spend, Azure Reserved Instances can make you the FinOps department’s new favorite person. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Before we tell you how you can start saving on your cloud spend, let’s define a few terms.

The Essential Guide to Cloud Migration Planning

Cloud migration is the process of moving your infrastructure, applications, and data to the cloud. While the potential benefits—like cost savings, scalability, and modernization—are significant, the risks are just as high if you don’t have a solid plan in place. Without clear strategies, you could face unexpected costs, technical challenges, and security issues.

Kubernetes Cost Optimization: 9+ Ways To Lower Costs in 2024

If cost optimization is your only reason for adopting Kubernetes and containers, you might be in for a rude surprise — many companies find that costs increase after moving to Kubernetes. Even companies who adopt Kubernetes for other reasons, like time-to-market advantages, should follow basic cost control best practices to stay within the budget. Optimizing cloud costs related to running Kubernetes doesn’t have to involve trade-offs for performance or availability.
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How to get the most from SAP on Azure

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How to Send Rightsizing Recommendations to Azure DevOps - Expert insights

In this video, Michael Stephenson ( A FinOps certified practitioner & Azure MVP) will demonstrate on how you can identify Azure rightsizing recommendations using Turbo360 and then send them to Azure DevOps as a work item so that your team can implement the same in the next sprint. By integrating Turbo360 with Azure DevOps, you can streamline the rightsizing process, reduce manual effort, and ensure that your Azure resources are optimized for performance and cost.

11.2 Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant in Public Preview (Demo) | Grafana

In this video, Mitch, the Director of Product Management at Grafana, introduces the Cloud Migration Assistant, available in public preview in Grafana 11.2. This tool simplifies the process of migrating dashboards and data sources from Grafana Open Source or Enterprise to Grafana Cloud. Mitch demonstrates how users can easily transfer their configurations with a point-and-click UI, generate a token for secure connection, and use Private Data Source Connect to access private data sources.

Catch The Highlights Of This 2024 Live CloudZero Demo

It’s all well and good to say that “every engineering decision is a buying decision.” It’s one of our favorite phrases here at CloudZero! However, it’s one thing to say it and quite another to LIVE IT. That’s pretty much the driving force behind CloudZero: We want your team to be able to access your company’s cloud spend data, analyze it from every angle that might be helpful, and use that information to grow the business.

Cloud Migration: Achieving Uninterrupted Enterprise Service Management

Uninterrupted Enterprise Service Management (ESM) is essential to maintaining business productivity, efficiency and employee satisfaction. Traditional on-premises ESM systems can be limited in scalability, lack updated security measures and be hard to maintain and upgrade. Relying on on-premises systems raises the additional risk of complete data loss and reduces service availability due to the reliance on only one or two potential failure points.