In the last 20 years, modern society has undergone a completely visible evolution regarding the Internet. Since its birth in the United States, it has been used by two-thirds of the world's population. According to the Digital Report 2023 study, Internet users worldwide have increased by 1.9%, reaching 5.16 billion this year. We use the Internet for many daily tasks, such as working online, shopping, and consuming content such as movies, music, or streaming games.

SharePoint Online, part of Microsoft’s extensive cloud offerings, brings a new level of efficiency to document and data management in modern workplaces. With its sophisticated tools like Document Libraries and Lists, SharePoint Online is indispensable for businesses seeking streamlined collaboration and organization. This guide delves into these key features, providing insights for both new and experienced users.

This is the second post in a 3-part series about shifting Observability left. If you have not had a chance to read the first, you can find it here. In today’s complex microservices deployments, gaining visibility into deployments is vital for optimal system performance and scalability. This has become even more important as the tech industry has moved toward microservice architecture reliance. Navigating through logs has become increasingly complex as requirements have grown.

SaaS providers prefer to host their solutions centrally on the cloud as a single deployment unit and share them across all their customers (tenants) in order to achieve strategic business objectives. To support this, SaaS generally demands cloud-managed services to help implement necessary automation, security, and observability specifically for their multi-tenanted compute layers.

Cost optimization is critical to managing any cloud-based service, including Azure Cosmos DB. Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service that allows you to scale your storage and throughput across regions. Although it offers a highly scalable and flexible platform for creating applications, Azure Cosmos DB cost optimization is important to ensure efficient resource utilization, avoid unforeseen expenses, and estimate costs more accurately.

Azure VM Reservations are the best solution for optimizing cloud expenses. Users can obtain discounted prices for virtual machines in Microsoft Azure by committing to a one- or three-year term. This strategic approach ensures predictable costs, enhances budget management, and is ideal for workloads with consistent resource requirements. Leveraging Azure VM Reservations empowers businesses to achieve significant cost savings while maintaining flexibility and scalability in the cloud infrastructure.

Virtual Machines (VMs) act as the foundation for the evolution of cloud computing. Business organizations utilizing virtualization for their applications will operate flawlessly only when the corresponding VM resources function without interruptions. A cloud enterprise’s expenditure on VM resources is frequently high, as pricing varies according to its service tier.

Cloud computing offers many advantages over on-premises environments, including scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. Yet, simply using a “lift and shift” strategy — where you move your application as-is from an on-premise environment to the cloud with minimal, if any, modification — can lead to several issues (such as inefficient design, bloated costs, etc.).

Maximise ROI in Spot Instances with CloudSpend In our fast-paced tech world, the need for scalable and budget-friendly cloud resources is unprecedented. AWS is the frontrunner in providing organizations with a wide range of computing services. Through its Amazon EC2 Spot Instances program, often known more simply Spot Instances, AWS offers a cost-effective alternative plan to address an organization’s resource-intensive workload requirements.

As an IT leader, you’re acutely aware of the struggles of juggling multiple cloud environments, from integration headaches to holistic incident management to monitoring multiple clouds at once. Seeking a more efficient multi-cloud management solution is crucial to alleviate these pressures and streamline your cloud operations.