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Important Ways to Regain Control of Azure Cost Management

This blog will brief on vital ways to regain control of Azure cloud cost and to achieve cost optimization. To start with, let us have a short introduction about Azure cost management. As the growth towards cloud adoption is increasing in enterprises, it is getting more difficult for enterprises to manage the cost spent on the cloud across the organization.

The future of cloud automation for SAP with Google Cloud and Avantra

In the tech world, automation has become a buzzword, especially when it comes to SAP. But in the world of SAP on cloud infrastructure like Google Cloud, it can be fully embraced by organizations to manage their SAP systems. Automation can help you scale out your SAP environment, providing significant savings to not only your cloud budget but also your team’s time and effort to manage large SAP environments.

Cut Your Cloud Burn with Intel and Densify

Intel Cloud Optimizer (ICO), powered by Densify, the market leading resource optimization analytics engine, will tell you if there are immediate and truly actionable opportunities to reduce costly excess resources safely to immediately cut cloud related burn. For qualifying enterprises (based on annual cloud spend) Intel funds the cost of advanced analytics software and expert assistance from both Densify and Intel cloud architects.

Bitbucket Cloud migration Q&A

With support for Atlassian Server products ending in February 2024, many of you are likely evaluating or planning your migration to Bitbucket Cloud. To help you navigate the migration process, we've put together a list of frequently asked questions that we hear from customers. Each section below has several resource links to help you learn more and start planning your migration.

Cloud Security: Key Emerging Trends You Need to Know in 2022 And Beyond

The early days of cloud computing saw people subject it to severe scrutiny. The main talking point revolved around its security and the ability of infrastructure providers to keep it secure. Regardless of the doubts, more businesses are migrating to the cloud. That's mainly because leading cloud service providers have consistently improved and upgraded their processes to secure their networks. However, even with years of improvement, the old fears remain.

We're increasing the default cron jitter from 5 to 20 minutes

At Upsun, we are committed to making your site perform as best as possible. As part of this commitment, we need to smooth down the system load spikes as much as possible—especially when many crons are triggered at the same time on a particular Grid region. To do so, we are increasing the default cron jitter from five minutes to 20 minutes.

How to Troubleshoot Amplify APIs

One of the things we love about working in the cloud is the ease and scalability it brings to application development. It enables us to build out applications, APIs and any infrastructure that is needed from prototyping an idea, through to self scaling deployments. Monitoring and troubleshooting production-level serverless applications is always tricky, Especially working across a number of services and the many logs they can produce.

Accelerating cloud migration to Microsoft Azure using the Now Platform

With more than 7,000 customers and double the number of employees ServiceNow had four years ago, our digital technology (formerly IT) operations team faced increased demand for compute, storage, and bandwidth. At the same time, we had to maintain tight security controls. We embrace a three-zero strategy: zero unplanned outages, zero physical footprint, and zero user-reported incidents.