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Unified observability Maximize visibility & control of multi cloud environments

In today’s multi-cloud world, gaining real-time visibility across complex infrastructure is vital for business resilience and IT efficiency. However, traditional observability tools often fall short, leaving gaps in data collection and actionable insights. This is where unified observability comes in. Unified observability is Digitate’s unique approach, enabling organizations to monitor and control their business, applications, and infrastructure layers from a single pane of glass.

Google Cloud Monitoring Guide: Best Practices And Tools To Use

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers a great alternative to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. If you use Google Products extensively at work, such as Google Workspace, moving to GCP may be a natural choice. Perhaps you already use GCP with AWS, Azure, or another cloud provider as part of your hybrid cloud strategy. But maybe you struggle to manage GCP costs, monitor security and compliance, and observe performance.

5 Azure Optimizations That Make Cloud Cost Savings Simple

As both the State Of FinOps 2024 and the State Of Cloud Costs In 2024 indicate, reducing cloud waste remains a top priority for cloud-driven organizations. Cloud spenders care more than ever about cost efficiency — and CloudZero is working tirelessly to make cloud savings simpler. To this end, we’re proud to announce that we’ve added a suite of automated Azure optimizations to our already robust library of automated Insights.

Elevating SolarWinds Observability for Hybrid IT Environments

Exciting times here at SolarWinds. We’re uniting our Self-Hosted and SaaS observability offerings under a single umbrella, SolarWinds Observability, and announcing a host of enhancements that will allow us to go even further to meet our customers' hybrid IT needs. Let’s take a look at what’s in store.

Launching Your Ubuntu Confidential VM with Intel TDX on Google Cloud: A Guide to Enhanced Security

In the world of cloud computing, we rely on abstraction layers to manage complex systems. While this simplifies development, it also creates vulnerabilities for sensitive data. Traditionally, privileged software within the cloud has access to your data, and could pose a significant security risk, if not managed properly. But there’s a new way to protect your data: confidential computing.

Ubuntu powers Azure's confidential AI offering

Microsoft Azure has announced the general availability of their confidential virtual machines (VMs) with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, powered by Ubuntu. This offering combines the hardware-based protection of AMD EPYC processors with NVIDIA’s latest GPU technology to enable secure and high-performance AI workloads in the cloud. Combining these technologies allows sensitive sectors to unlock AI adoption through addressing previous concerns of critical data privacy.

Reduce your AWS Step Functions' error remediation time by redriving executions directly from Datadog

AWS enables customers to retry or redrive Step Functions executions to continue any failed executions of Standard Workflows from their points of failure while maintaining all inputs. For example, if you find broken downstream logic in your code or experience unexpected errors upon execution, you can remediate those errors by fully re-running an execution or use redrive to continue this execution.

Heroku Alternatives: Why Bunnyshell is the Best Choice for Modern Cloud Deployment

With Heroku announcing significant changes, such as the discontinuation of its free tier, developers are left seeking alternatives that offer similar ease of use but more robust and scalable options. While Heroku was once the go-to for rapid deployment and management of applications, several alternatives now stand out, each offering unique benefits on different cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, DigitalOcean, Linode, Hetzner, Vultr, and Scaleway.