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How Real-Time Asset Tracking Transforms Data Center Operations

Using real-time asset tracking, data centers can identify the exact location of any given asset at any given time. This can be extremely useful in ensuring that available resources are optimally utilized. For instance, understanding the current status and location of servers, racks, and other hardware can streamline maintenance operations and reduce downtime.

Azure Blob Storage Versioning: A Step-by-Step Guide

In the multifaceted world of cloud computing, managing and safeguarding data becomes paramount. Azure Blob Storage Versioning serves as a pivotal feature within the Microsoft Azure platform, providing the essential capacity to control and maintain various versions of data. Whether you’re a small business owner worried about accidental deletions or a large corporation dealing with regulatory compliance, understanding Azure Blob Storage Versioning is crucial.

How Much Does Twitter Spend On AWS And Google Cloud?

It's been a rollercoaster ride at Twitter recently. News of layoffs with "50% higher than legally required" severance pay has dominated the news. But Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk is also trying to optimize cloud infrastructure costs. Some of the tactics used include refusing to pay a $70 million AWS bill and $8 million to a software services company. More on that below.

Is your cloud provider telling you everything, everywhere, all at once?

Today the Internet IS the new enterprise network your organization relies upon. However, most of your key applications and systems are outsourced to the cloud. In fact, huge parts of your Internet Stack are either outsourced to the cloud or to 3rd-parties who themselves rely upon the cloud. And that's an issue because if any of those cloud-based services go down, your network is going to be impacted.

Maximizing Efficiency and Savings: Explore Virtana's Latest Innovations to IPM and Cloud Cost Management

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, where IT infrastructure and cloud costs play a pivotal role, organizations demand advanced solutions that streamline operations, optimize performance, and drive cost efficiency. Virtana, a trailblazer in infrastructure monitoring and observability and true multicloud cost management, has taken another leap forward by introducing a host of groundbreaking features to our flagship products.

CloudOps: Transforming IT Operations in the Cloud

CloudOps, or Cloud Operations, is quickly becoming the standard for managing IT operations in the cloud computing ecosystem. By transforming traditional IT operations to harness the full potential of the cloud, businesses are experiencing greater automation, collaboration, agility, and resilience. This article is a deep dive into the concept of CloudOps, its core components, the advantages it offers, and the steps necessary to implement it effectively within an organization.

What is data portability & why should businesses care about it?

If you wanted to switch from one project management tool to another, what would happen to your data? As more and more business operations undergo digital transformations and move online, organizations have become more reliant than ever on their digital data. Many take for granted that their data is their own and that they can take it with them if they change tools. But for those who rely on third-party tools, control of data may not be so simple.

5 Steps to An Easy, Error-free Load Balancer Sanity Reboot

It’s one of the main use cases fit for network automation: the load balancer sanity reboot. Not to be left to manual executions, this long, tiresome task creates too much possibility for errors. Negative effects like unnecessary time and money spent are detriments that organizations can avoid, simply by automating the types of tasks—like load balancer sanity reboots—that include loads of repetitive steps.

eCommerce Load Testing (Step 3): Build the Environment

In this webinar clip from "Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes", Speedscale Co-founder, Nate Lee, explains what to consider when building the environment, including backend dependencies and data. He covers how service mocking can help companies test at a higher velocity in today's complex development environments.