Microsoft Azure offers a variety of solutions for cost management, with Azure Advisor being one of the core features. Azure Advisor provides insights into reservations and right-sizing for various Azure resources. While Microsoft Azure excels at building and deploying solutions, there is often a notable gap when it comes to operations and cost management.

Broadcom recently announced that Arrow Electronics will now be the sole go-to-market provider of VMware Tanzu CloudHealth. Arrow will provide sales, marketing, and technical support for Tanzu CloudHealth and enhance the user experience through streamlined accessibility, specialized knowledge, and personalized assistance.

Investing in the right systems, assets, and infrastructure is critical to business success. It can be the difference between profitability and loss. Businesses employ several methods to determine the value of a product or service before purchase or adoption. One of those methods is the total cost of ownership. Total cost of ownership (TCO) is the sum of all costs involved in the purchase, operation, and maintenance of a given asset during its lifetime.

Managing and knowing where your cloud spend goes is nearly impossible without the right cloud cost management tools. Cloud-native, distributed technologies like microservices, containers, and Kubernetes can make it even more difficult to have full visibility into resource usage — and the associated costs. This cost information is also often buried in rows and columns of text on cloud providers’ bills. In addition, a lot of cloud cost management tools are clunky and inexact.

Datadog Actions help you respond to alerts and manage your infrastructure directly from within Datadog. This can be done by creating workflows that automate end-to-end processes or by using App Builder to build resource management tools and self-serve developer platforms. With more than 550 available actions, Datadog Actions offers capabilities such as creating Jira tickets, resizing autoscaling groups, and triggering GitHub pipelines.

We are delighted to announce the continuation of our successful partnership with DataPassion GmbH in Germany. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, DataPassion has been a trusted collaborator, providing smart application integration services for CRM, ERP, and multi-channel shopping. Their expertise in Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Azure, and Azure Integration Services, has consistently delivered reliable and scalable solutions to our clients.

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth is a market leading multi-cloud financial management (or FinOps) platform that helps organizations make sense of their cloud data, optimize and control cloud spend, and grow their cloud management practice. More than 22,000 organizations globally rely on our platform to optimize and govern over $24B in annual multi-cloud spend.

Organizations are turning to Virtual Private Servers (VPS) for scalable and cost-effective hosting solutions. Google offers a robust VPS option tailored to various organizational needs. Understanding Google VPS pricing can help you make informed decisions and optimize your cloud costs. This guide will explain Google VPS pricing, explore its uses, and provide tips for optimizing these costs with CloudZero.

Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is an efficient and durable block storage service. It is especially great for rapidly changing data on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Besides, Amazon EBS GP volumes promise a balance between performance and cost savings. In this guide, we see if that is the case. We’ll also tell if switching from your current EBS volume type is worth the while.

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