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CloudZero Launches Automated Savings Insights, Helping Engineers Prioritize Cost Efficiency

Getting to cloud efficiency is both an art and a science. The art has long been CloudZero’s specialty: giving engineers complete visibility into the costs associated with their cloud infrastructure, putting it all in a business context, and helping them make proactive decisions about how to build and scale efficiently. In other words, the art is on the human side. Giving human engineers the visibility and context to understand and control cloud costs.

What is a SharePoint Site Collection?

SharePoint, born from the tech giant Microsoft, is not just another application; it’s a robust platform that’s been transforming the way businesses handle their internal processes for years. At its core, SharePoint is designed to streamline collaboration and document management. But what does that mean in layman’s terms? Imagine a vast digital library, where instead of books, you have documents, images, videos, and other digital content.

Ensuring Business Continuity with Cloud Backup

Have you ever had one of those nightmares where your business data has vanished? You wake up in a cold sweat, realizing how much your company relies on all that information stored on servers and computers. If a disaster wiped it out, your business could halt. But there's an easy solution: cloud backup.

The Best Cloud Infrastructure Automation Tools

The past decade has seen a drastic growth in the adoption of public cloud. One of the primary reasons for this is its cheaper infrastructure and ease of scale. With such rapid adoption of public cloud, the need for infrastructure automation also arises. This is because teams want to quickly provision infrastructure and automate tasks that previously took weeks in the case of traditional data centers, down to minutes in the public cloud.

Essential Metrics for Kafka Performance Monitoring

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed streaming system that has grown in popularity and usage across the technology industry. Originating from LinkedIn and now part of the Apache Software Foundation, Kafka provides a robust and scalable platform. It’s uniquely designed with an architecture that includes both a storage layer and a compute layer.

Virtana Named in Prestigious Industry Research by Gartner

Virtana’s AI-powered platform is at the forefront of IT infrastructure management, offering a comprehensive suite of tools and services that empower IT leaders to make informed decisions on how to forecast demand and streamline operations. The rapid evolution of technology has ushered in an era of complexity and dynamism that IT leaders must navigate effectively.

Cloud Migration Basics: A Beginner's Guide

What is a cloud migration? A cloud migration is the practice of moving IT workloads (data, applications, security, infrastructure, and other objects) to a cloud environment. Quick Links: Cloud migration can take many forms, including: There is also another type of cloud migration called a reverse cloud migration (also known as cloud repatriation or cloud exit) where existing applications are moved from a public cloud back to an on-premises data center.

Enterprises Realize Benefits from Migrating to Cloud with Splunk

Today, for a lot of organizations, moving to the cloud provides the best strategy to drive higher business efficiency and scale. But moving to the cloud can be challenging. IT leaders are continuously looking for ways to focus more on driving business value while moving to the cloud.

On-Prem vs Colo vs. Cloud vs. Hybrid: How to Choose

With the ever-increasing demand for digital services, organizations face the questions of how will they keep up and where will they store and access their data and applications. The evolution of hosting options from on-premise infrastructure to colocation, cloud, and hybrid deployments has provided a diverse set of choices for organizations, and it is critical to select the option that best suits your unique needs.

Planning and Baselining a Migration to Azure SQL

A migration from on-premises SQL Server to Azure SQL offers many customers a number of advantages. It can enable scalability, reduce costs, enhance security, ensure high availability, and simplifies maintenance. Many organizations are looking to equivalent cloud services to move on-prem workloads such as SQL databases to the cloud, freeing themselves from the overheads of purchasing, configuring and maintaining physical hardware and infrastructure.