It’s a fast-paced business world out there. This means artificial intelligence (AI) models that help modern businesses win are more than welcome. The right model can drive innovation, streamline workflows, and save you money. But OpenAI’s powerful models can have a catch: High-frequency API usage, complex queries, and data processing can lead to unexpectedly high costs. Surprise costs eat up budgets and threaten other critical investments. Not good.

The SharePoint REST API is a powerful tool that allows developers to interact with SharePoint data and resources remotely. Whether you’re managing documents, configuring sites, or building custom applications, the REST API provides a flexible, efficient way to programmatically access and manipulate data within a SharePoint environment.

NetApp is excited to announce the addition of Shuffle Data Store for Ocean for Apache Spark. Customers running on AWS can now benefit from improved resilience and efficiency for multi-step data preparation pipelines that require Apache Spark to shuffle data. The external shuffle solution is backed by either Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP storage or Amazon S3 storage, which have been optimally configured for Spark workloads.

As the world of work continues to evolve and the technological needs of companies change, cloud migration has seen some interesting developments in recent years. At Auvik, we’ve collected three key takeaways and 15 cloud migration statistics that point to emerging trends and help IT professionals better position themselves for the future. First, some quick definitions: Public clouds are managed by providers, while private clouds are managed by the company or a third party.

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, the world has seen a huge shift in our personal, business, and creative lives. Although we often use AI daily, its addition to our lives has not been without problems. It has caused writer strikes and worries about how AI handles our data and what it means for privacy, and many people are worried about AI taking over their jobs.

Many SaaS companies struggle to get engineers to take charge of costs and lower cloud expenses. Confused business leaders often put the problem on the shoulders of the engineers: Surely, it’s just that the engineers don’t care enough to stay within budget, or maybe they just don’t want to participate in the culture of cost efficiency leadership is trying to build. But what if your engineers actually do want to optimize costs—they just don’t have the tools and data to do so?

Gartner predicts that by the end of 2025, 80% of organizations will use cloud automation tools to orchestrate workloads. The firm also forecasts that spending on public cloud services will hit $679 billion by the end of 2024, with SaaS leading the cloud computing market. This surge in cloud spending will shape the future of SaaS, and cloud automation tools will play a key role in this transformation.