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Optimizing GPU Efficiency and AI Costs with Pepperdata

As AI workloads explode, platform owners face an increasingly common challenge: a massive gap between GPU demand and supply. Pending workloads, idle GPUs, and rising costs make it harder than ever to scale AI efficiently. In this video, we explore how Pepperdata.ai helps enterprises regain control of their GPU environments with two breakthrough solutions: Demand Optimization – Get granular visibility into GPU usage across your entire infrastructure. Identify inefficiencies, balance supply and demand, and uncover hidden capacity.

AI Agent for Cloud Cost Optimization: From Blind Spots to Smarter Spend

Cloud has become the backbone of digital enterprises, but managing its cost footprint is proving increasingly difficult. With multiple providers, diverse pricing models, and ever-changing workloads, organizations often find themselves facing spend leakage and unanticipated overruns. The stakes are high—not only in terms of IT budgets but also in ensuring cloud resources deliver maximum business value.

Data Centre Colocation: What UK Businesses Need to Know About Costs

As more UK companies go digital, many are missing critical cost factors when choosing colocation data centres, with location, power bills and regulatory compliance proving far more expensive than many anticipate. With insights from Pulsant, a digital edge infrastructure provider, we take a look at true cost of colocation.

Kubernetes For AI: The CTO's Guide

Kubernetes began as a tool to help teams keep thousands of microservices running without falling apart. It gave them a way to schedule workloads, recover from failures, and scale services without constant firefighting. Now, AI has brought back the same chaos, only magnified. Training jobs sprawl across GPUs. Inference traffic spikes without warning. Pipelines stretch across clusters, clouds, and compliance boundaries. Left unchecked, it can break both your workload and cloud budget.

Service disruption on October 20, 2025

When the internet goes down, our primary job is to help everyone get back up, as fast as possible. Of the almost half a million incidents we've helped our customers solve, there are some which stand out for both their scale and impact. One of these happened on Monday, October 20, when AWS had a widely covered major outage in their us-east-1 region, from 07:11 to 10:53 UTC. We’re hosted in multiple regions of Google Cloud and so the majority of our product was unaffected by the outage.

The Hidden Risk of DNS - Lessons from the AWS Outage & Why You Need DNS Spy Monitoring NOW

On October 20, 2025, much of the internet came to a halt. Apps wouldn’t load. Payments failed. Cloud dashboards went dark. From Fortnite to Alexa, Snapchat, and countless business platforms, users across the world were suddenly offline — all because DNS broke inside Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) US-East-1 region.

Build Vs. Buy? Why Creating Your Own Cost Management Platform Is Futile

The siren song of building a custom, internal cloud cost management platform is enticing. Many brilliant engineering teams are convinced they can come up with a bespoke solution that perfectly fits their needs. They look at their company’s unique infrastructure and decide they can DIY cost management without having to rely on an external vendor. Believe me, I get the temptation.

Amazon Isn't Eating Its Own DNS Dog Food

On October 19-20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a significant outage (AWS status) affecting its US-EAST-1 region in northern Virginia. The root cause was DNS resolution failures for DynamoDB’s API endpoints, which cascaded across AWS’s interconnected services, disrupting major platforms including Snapchat, McDonald’s, Disney+, Roblox, Coinbas, Reddit, and Amazon’s own services.

Sustainable Cloud Computing in the UK: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Future

The tech industry's environmental impact is a growing concern, but can collaboration and innovation drive sustainability? At Civo Navigate London 2025, Regent Lee, Dinesh Majrekar, Liam McTague, and Simon Morris explored the challenges and opportunities of reducing emissions in the tech industry.

The Best Cloud Storage Deals of Black Friday 2025

Looking for the best cloud storage deals? You’re in the right place, and since Black Friday is just around the corner, now is the perfect time. This time of year, companies offer their biggest deals on everything from tech gadgets, beauty, video games, and much more. But for cloud storage, we’ve got you covered with the best cloud storage deals of the year, allowing you to store, backup, sync, and share your files with friends, family, or colleagues.