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What Are The Different Cloud Cost Models? 3 Types You Need To Know

Identifying the best payment plan for cloud services can be a challenge. For one thing, no two businesses are exactly alike. Since each organization faces a unique set of circumstances, it is tough to choose the best option from all the different cloud cost models without taking an in-depth look at business-specific aspects such as demand, spending preferences, and projected revenue over the next few years. On top of that, the payment plans themselves are very often confusing.

Dashboard Fridays: Azure VM Health Dashboard

Adam is back for our final Dashboard Fridays video of 2021, and is joined by Azure expert and community hero Cameron Fuller of Catapult Systems! The Azure Management Services team at Catapult required a quick way to visualize the key health pieces for their customers, using a visually intuitive dashboard. In this bitesize video, Cameron will showcase this sample Azure VM Health dashboard focused on free disk space, heartbeat and CPU utilization. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and how you can easily get your hands on it.

Azure Thames Valley: Azure CosmosDB as a Knowledge Graph (in SquaredUp's Cloud product)

In this session, Richard Jones, SquaredUp CTO, shares how SquaredUp's new Cloud product utilises Azure CosmosDB as a graph database, to provide an explorable and searchable knowledge graph of all your applications, services, and resources spanning all your tools and platforms.

5 IT Financial Management (ITFM) Best Practices To Consider In 2022

If IT Financial Management (ITFM) was as simple as widely presumed, we’d be seeing IT expenditure dropping globally with the continued adoption of cloud services. For example, in 2020 it was expected that 83% of enterprise workloads would move to the cloud. That move happened but the results didn’t come with the extensive cost reduction benefits that businesses envisioned. Organizations are actually spending more despite the workload migration.

Global Azure AD Outage Affecting Microsoft 365 Services December 15

Microsoft has had its own share of outages recently and during the evening of December 15th Azure AD was the cloud culprit. As a result, the Exoprise sensors detected this Microsoft 365 outage more than an hour before Microsoft informed customers of the issue. Here’s some of the errors that users were experiencing if they attempted to sign into Microsoft services: Most of our worldwide customers knew well in advance of the problem before users or business suffered.

Cloud monitoring 101

Cloud monitoring is a concept that refers to a process of examining, monitoring, and controlling a cloud workflow. Cloud monitoring may be performed manually or via automated monitoring services or technologies to ensure that a cloud is operating. This procedure, centered on security and administration, has become critical for firms that depend on cloud technology.

Christmas Newsletter 2021

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and you are the most wonderful part of the Cloud 66 family! Thank you for being our customer - we are grateful. We wish you a holly, jolly holiday season full of magic, happiness, and laughter. Have a prosperous 2022 filled with clean code, smooth pipelines, effortless deployments, and spectacular success! Festive Greetings from the Cloud 66 Crew!

Tutorial: Getting Started with AWS Lambda and Node.js

AWS Lambda is an incredible tool that works well with an abundance of other services on AWS. In this hands-on walkthrough, we’ll show you how to get started and create your first Node.js AWS Lambda function. Once upon a time, not so long ago, a word caught my ear. Lambda. That struck a chord, remembering the good old days of playing Half-Life as a kid. Little did I know what AWS Lambda was and how incredibly awesome it is. If you’re intrigued, stick around.