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Skiff Competition: Discover a Cost-Effective and Secure Alternative to Skiff

Skiff is a cloud storage platform with the same goal as many alternative cloud storage services: to provide a secure and private cloud for individuals and businesses. Skiff hopes to provide alternatives to Big Tech companies such as Google Drive and Dropbox to give users full ownership of their files with end-to-end encrypted services. As well as cloud storage, Skiff has expanded its services to other products that encrypt your data, including email, calendar, and other mobile apps.

Do you have a Cloud Exit Strategy?

In the modern digital age, the allure of cloud computing has been nothing short of mesmerizing. From startups to global enterprises, businesses have been swiftly drawn to the promise of scalability, flexibility, and the potential for reduced capital expenditure that cloud platforms like Azure offer. Considering the diverse Azure VM types and the attractive Azure VMs sizes, it’s easy to understand the appeal.

6 Tips For People Looking To Upgrade Their Business To The Cloud

Are you looking to upgrade your business operations and take advantage of the convenience and scalability that cloud computing offers? With the right plan, moving your data and applications to the cloud can give you unprecedented access, a higher degree of control over security features, and an enhanced networking capability that other platforms can't match. In this blog post, we're going to look at six tips for people who are ready to make the jump into cloud technology. Learn about how properly preparing for such a major transition will help ensure success further down the line as well!

How To Monitor AWS EC2 With MetricFire

AWS EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) has revolutionized the way businesses operate in the cloud. With its scalable and flexible infrastructure, EC2 allows organizations to easily deploy virtual servers and manage their computing resources efficiently. However, as your EC2 environment grows, monitoring becomes crucial to ensure optimal performance, security, and cost optimization. One powerful solution for monitoring AWS EC2 is Hosted Graphite by MetricFire, a comprehensive graphing and monitoring service.

Cloud repatriation: What's behind the return to on-premises?

Find out why cloud repatriation is on the rise — and what makes on-premises the ideal approach for some businesses. Over the last ten years, the cloud has been touted as a game-changer. But, like magpies, have we all jumped on the “shiny object syndrome” bandwagon? Spending on public cloud services continues to show strong growth, with Gartner forecasting that by the end of 2023, worldwide end user spending on public cloud services will total nearly $600 billion.

Cloud storage for enterprises

Any data-centric organisation faces the prospect of data growth at some point in their existence; it is estimated that more than 2,500 Petabytes (PB) of new data is created every day. While only a few organisations will ever have to deal with that kind of scale, it is important to plan ahead for your own organisation’s growth. Legacy appliance-based storage systems where hardware and software are closely coupled can be expensive to maintain, expand, and difficult to operate.

FinOps Focus: Cost Management vs. Cost Optimization

Rethinking Cost Optimization Cost Optimization is a term that has been around for a while when discussing Cloud cost, and to a larger extent the practice of FinOps. It is usually what most people associate with FinOps when they hear those terms initially, but is that the correct term to use?

The Benefits and Challenges of Managing Hybrid Estates

More and more organizations are migrating their data to the cloud but the majority are likely to end up managing hybrid estates, with some data managed through a cloud provider and some managed locally. This leads to some unique issues, especially around monitoring and services. If the objective of migrating to the cloud is simply to implement virtual machines (VMs) in a different location than you traditionally do, there will be fewer challenges.

Azure Key Vault: A Comprehensive Overview

Azure Key Vault is Microsoft’s dedicated cloud service, designed to safeguard cryptographic keys, application secrets, and other sensitive data. In an era where digital security is paramount, it functions as a centralized repository. Here, sensitive data is encrypted, ensuring that only designated applications or users can access them. Imagine having a hyper-secure, digital vault where you can store all your essential digital assets.

Azure: The Ultimate Guide to Microsoft's Cloud Computing Platform

Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate and manage their data. With the vast amounts of information being generated daily, traditional on-premises infrastructure struggles to keep up with the demands of scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness. This is where Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform, comes into play. Azure provides a comprehensive set of tools and services that enable organizations to build, deploy, and manage applications and services on a global scale.