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Understanding AWS EC2 Billing: Ways To Optimize Your Costs

EC2 instances come with a spider web of charges — when you take a look at your bill, you’ll see there are hundreds of unique line items connected to your usage. In addition to the instance, you’re also billed for storage, data transfer, and networking associated with that instance. It’s important to fully understand those charges so you can find ways to optimize your costs.

Cloud Economics - And The Cloud Cost Metrics You Should Be Tracking

Over the past decade, businesses have flocked to the public cloud, with the promise of faster innovation, improved scalability — and of course, cost savings. Yet for many companies, the reality of cloud migration has been a different story. CFOs are blindsided by high costs and uncontrolled spending. Meanwhile, engineering teams struggle to justify and explain their spend — often frustrated that finance doesn’t understand, even when spend is growing healthily along with the business.

3 Improvements Finance Teams Can Make To Their FP&A Process

FP&A is a strategic part of the finance organization and has the potential to drive important business outcomes. When done right, it can have a major positive impact on the future of the business. When done poorly, it can slow a company down. The role of FP&A has evolved. Today it isn’t just about taking inputs and crunching numbers — it’s about being a strategic advisor to the organization.

Pepperdata Lets AWS Auto Scaling Execute More Big Data Workloads

Here at Pepperdata, we continuously work to improve our products and better serve our customers. Whether it’s executing more big data workloads or ensuring their resource consumption remains optimal, we want our customers to get the best value and tangible benefits from our products while not overshooting their big data cloud budgets. Today, we’re bringing you the data to back up our claims that all of this is possible.

Anodot Acquires Pileus to Transform the Cloud Cost Optimization Space

We couldn’t be more excited here at Anodot at the announcement of the acquisition of Pileus. Acquiring a company is a very special event, a moment that is the culmination of months of thought and deliberation. Is there a strong synergy between the two entities? Do we share the same DNA and culture? Is the additional product aligned with our long-term vision?

Serverless Cost Optimization: 4 Ways To Lower Your Costs

Serverless services save time. When you switch to serverless architecture, you offload redundant cloud management activities to your cloud provider and gain more time to focus on the most important parts of your business — development and innovation. Even better, you only pay for what you use, so you don’t have to worry about committing to reserved instances or committing to a savings plan. But there’s a catch.

Spark Performance Management Optimization Best Practices | Pepperdata

Gain the knowledge of Spark veteran Alex Pierce on how to manage the challenges of maintaining the performance and usability of your Spark jobs. Apache Spark provides sophisticated ways for enterprises to leverage big data compared to Hadoop. However, the increasing amount of data being analyzed and processed through the framework is massive and continues to push the boundaries of the engine.

How to Optimize Spark Enterprise Application Performance | Pepperdata

Does your big data analytics platform provide you with the Spark recommendations you need to optimize your application performance and improve your own skillset? Explore how you can use Spark recommendations to untangle the complexity of your Spark applications, reduce waste and cost, and enhance your own knowledge of Spark best practices. Topics include: Join Product Manager Heidi Carson and Field Engineer Alex Pierce from Pepperdata to gain real-world experience with a variety of Spark recommendations, and participate in the Q and A that follows.

How to Maximize the Value Of Your Big Data Analytics Stack Investment

Big data analytics performance management is a competitive differentiator and a priority for data-driven companies. However, optimizing IT costs while guaranteeing performance and reliability in distributed systems is difficult. The complexity of distributed systems makes it critically important to have unified visibility into the entire stack. This webinar discusses how to maximize the business value of your big data analytics stack investment and achieve ROI while reducing expenses. Learn how to.

How DevOps Can Reduce the Runaway Waste and Cost of Autoscaling

Autoscaling is the process of automatically increasing or decreasing the computational resources delivered to a cloud workload based on need. This typically means adding or reducing active servers (instances) that are leveraged against your workload within an infrastructure.