Google Cloud, the number three player in the global IaaS and PaaS sectors, secured a market share of 10% towards the end of 2023 with similar commitments to AI that we’re seeing across the cloud provider board. Although growth at Google Cloud hit 24% year-on-year in Q3, according to Canalys, performance was lower than expectations as the cloud provider struggled more than its peers with the delayed impact of enterprise’ IT cost-cutting measures.

Automation is the result of taking a manual task or process and making it automatic with little to no manual intervention. It plays a crucial role in optimizing your cloud spend, as it can be applied to save several hours in various scenarios within your service’s operation. Here, at CloudZero, discussing automation is no stranger to us. We have information about what automation is and some common tools to help in this guide.

In today's tech landscape, businesses are undergoing a significant shift in how they manage their IT infrastructure. Cloud computing has been a huge force in this transformation, leading to a blend of on-prem and cloud-based services known as hybrid IT. With a hybrid IT infrastructure, you can take advantage of both the control and security of on-prem solutions, as well as the scalability and flexibility of cloud architecture. But is hybrid IT right for your business?

Portfolio Analysis is a strategic process that evaluates potential software vendors in a business investment portfolio. This method assesses risk and potential returns by considering factors such as vendor stability, technological maturity, and alignment with the organization's strategic goals. By implementing Portfolio Analysis in software vendor selection, organizations can optimize their overall software portfolio.

“There’s amazing people doing amazing things, thinking about amazing solutions, and I think as storytellers, it’s important for us to lean into some of these futures. They don’t have to be perfect futures, but they’re futures where there’s hope.

The beginning of a new year is a time ripe for innovation. But implementing new ideas to scale quickly while keeping cloud costs down is a delicate balance to strike. January’s cloud cost news brings positive shifts in the market from AWS, Google, and SAP.

The beauty of deploying SaaS-based applications is that you don’t have to worry about building the infrastructure, hiring engineers to maintain it, staying on top of upgrades or worry about application security. Indeed, these are some of the main benefits you get by using a SaaS offering. However, the world of software is full of trade-offs, so, what do you lose out on?

DataDog is a paid SaaS tool that provides a range of products for monitoring applications and tech infrastructure. While CloudWatch is an Amazon Web Services product that monitors applications running on AWS infrastructure, or using AWS services.