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How To Build A Successful Cloud Strategy in 2024

Businesses move to the cloud for several reasons. For some, moving to the cloud means gaining access to the best enterprise-level technology without the associated costs of handling, maintaining, and managing the underlying infrastructure. For others (like startups), the ability to scale quickly and respond faster to market demands is at the top of the list.

How can you create a schedule for your UAT environment?

This video demonstrates the workload optimization feature within a Turbo360. This feature allows users to schedule automatic resizing or turning off resources in Azure to minimize costs. The video shows how to set up a schedule to manage resources, such as App service plans, Cosmos DB, Data Factory Pipelines, Logic Apps, SQL databases, and VMs, and how to configure notifications and cost savings.

The Top 8 Open-Source Software Providers for Storage, Media, & More

Open-source platforms are rapidly overtaking the proprietary software market as more people value open-source software's transparency and resources. We all have many options for tools to integrate into our lives, from media streaming to managing our files; choosing the right open-source tools can help save money and offer greater flexibility, encourage collaboration and shared knowledge within communities.

What is Tiered Pricing? Definition, Examples, Best Practices

Pricing matters. Charge too little and you won’t earn enough revenue to stay afloat. Charge too much and you could lose thousands in potential business. You don’t want to price out some customers. So what can you do? This is where tiered pricing comes into play. The SaaS pricing approach can be helpful for companies looking to meet the needs and budgets of their different customer personas.
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Security & AI Considerations in IT Monitoring Focusing on Microsoft SCOM & Azure Monitor SCOM MI

This whitepaper explores the pivotal roles of security and artificial intelligence (AI) in advancing IT monitoring capabilities, with a specific focus on Microsoft SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) and Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance (MI). It highlights how security measures safeguard monitoring data integrity and confidentiality while AI enhances predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and automated responses.

Kentik Bytes - Cloud Network Performance Metrics

Phil Gervasi introduces a quick and easy way to see network performance metrics among multiple cloud instances. Synthetic tests can be deployed in multiple public clouds to test for loss, latency, and jitter among public cloud instances, such as between AWS and Azure. Phil demonstrates the ability to adjust the time range and shows inbound and outbound traffic, average latency, packet loss, and jitter. A spike in any of these metrics would trigger an alert tied to the ticketing system. He also shows the ability to click into the path view between cloud instances to see a hop-by-hop breakdown.

Kentik Bytes - Identifying Idle Cloud Resources

Phil Gervasi introduces a method for identifying idle resources in AWS using the Kentik platform. By selecting dimensions such as Logging Status, Observing VPC ID, and Observing Region, users can filter the data to determine if a resource is actually doing anything from a network perspective. “No Data” messages indicate resources with no network activity, and a more specific filter can be created based on this message to isolate idle resources. By adjusting the time frame and observing bits per second, users can determine how long resources have been idle.

Amazon EBS Optimization: A Guide To Maximizing EBS Efficiency

The Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) service should provide high-performance block storage for Amazon EC2 instances. Yet, without careful management, Amazon EBS can become inefficient, leading to performance bottlenecks and cost overruns. For example, EBS volumes persist even after an EC2 instance has been terminated. The unused EBS volumes continue to incur costs.