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How CloudZero Closed A $32M Series B Round In The Weakest Funding Environment In Years

CloudZero just closed at $32M Series B fundraising round in the weakest funding environment since the dawn of the pandemic. The round was led by Innovius Capital and Threshold Ventures, with continued support from existing investors Matrix Partners, Underscore VC, and G20 Ventures. CloudZero is a SaaS product, a data-dense platform delivered via the cloud, mostly to other SaaS companies and digital native businesses (DNBs).

Evolution at the edge: what matters when developing an edge strategy?

The evolution of information technology is governed by how businesses adapt to ever-increasing amounts of data. Those businesses most able to exploit more data, win. Terms such as ‘speed’ and ‘agility’ refer to how a business handles and uses this data. Given the 2.5 quintillion bytes created every day, there is a huge opportunity for businesses to create unassailable leadership.

Native Cloud Tools: Understanding Their Benefits for FinOps

Cloud tools are becoming indispensable for modern-day FinOps. They can improve efficiency and agility and deliver better client results. But what native cloud tools are right for you, and how can they benefit FinOps? Let’s find out. When managing financial operations in your organization, using native cloud tools is a must. Let’s take a closer look at some key advantages.

The Art of Using Execution tags to Troubleshoot ECS

In the grand tapestry of software engineering, our journey often winds through labyrinthine layers of application logic. Here, bugs play a compelling game of hide-and-seek, and features dance in an unpredictable ballet. During these instances of fervent exploration, we find ourselves longing for a reliable compass—a secret weapon—to help us decipher the riddles that lie ahead. Cue execution tags, our luminous lighthouse cutting through the dense fog of complexity.

Real-Time, Automated Cost Optimization for Amazon EMR

Running your infrastructure in the cloud can lead to wasted resources and ultimately overspending. Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer for Amazon EMR operates dynamically in real time to optimize performance without the need to model your workloads ahead of time, change application code, or platform settings. It provides autonomous optimization continuously, improving resource utilization at both the instance level and with the EMR autoscaler. Watch the full video for a deep-dive on how Pepperdata solves the problem of cloud overspending and resource waste without manual intervention.

Understanding VMWare Snapshot Quiescing

Snapshot quiescing, a technique employed in the world of virtualization, stands as a pivotal concept to grasp for anyone involved in IT operations. In particular, when working with VMware, understanding snapshot quiescing can significantly streamline your backup and restore operations. It’s a crucial process that ensures the data on a Virtual Machine (VM) is in a consistent state when a snapshot is taken.

Canonical extends its commercial OpenStack offering to small-scale cloud environments with project Sunbeam

June 13, Vancouver, OpenInfra Summit – Canonical today announced the extension of its commercial OpenStack offering to small-scale cloud environments with a new project Sunbeam. The project is 100% open source and is available free-of-charge. Early adopters can also opt-in for comprehensive security coverage and full commercial support under the Ubuntu Pro + Support subscriptions once they complete the deployment themselves.

Enable preconfigured alerts with Recommended Monitors for Azure

As a new Datadog customer, your top priority is figuring out how to maximize the platform’s potential and deliver value to your organization quickly and seamlessly. But with a plethora of options and configurations available at your disposal, it can be overwhelming to determine where to begin. With Datadog, you don’t need to be an expert in observability or monitoring to get up and running efficiently.