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Snowflake is special for several reasons. To begin with, its architecture separates storage and compute, making it fast, highly scalable, and efficient. Snowflake’s cloud-native, SaaS, and serverless approach also means you don’t have to worry about provisioning servers on-premises. Instead, you just need a Snowflake subscription; their team will handle the handy work on your behalf. At CloudZero, we use Snowflake for these and several more reasons.

Learn to monitor host metrics with OpenTelemetry. Discover setup tips, common pitfalls, and best practices for effective observability.

Demystify your private cloud options with our comparison of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. On a typical day at Megaport, our Solutions team helps a lot of customers with a lot of questions. And in my time here, I’ve noticed these questions often follow the same theme: What’s the best way to connect to their cloud service providers? The reality is that there’s no simple answer to this question.

For gaming companies, creating a positive user experience is paramount. Gamers expect seamless gameplay, fast response times, and 24/7 availability. Maintaining top-notch performance is crucial when managing massive multiplayer online games, mobile games, or e-sports platforms. This blog will explain how gaming companies rely on monitoring and explore many widespread monitoring use cases for gaming companies.

Did you know that an average data center can consume around 300,000 gallons of water every day? With data center sustainability being a top priority for many organizations around the world, it is important to remember that sustainability is not just about decreasing the use of fossil fuels and lowering carbon emissions but reducing water consumption as well. However, according to Uptime Institute, only 43% of data centers collect data on their water usage for corporate sustainability purposes.

Developer self-service can sound like a dream: A platform that developers can use to freely develop — unburdened by sprawling IT, tools they shouldn’t need to know how to use, and tickets that take forever to complete. But in DevOps, self-service is becoming a differentiator for organizations with growth goals, widening skill gaps, a need for visibility, or just an appetite for better DevOps efficiency.

Over the last few years, cloud-native has become a popular buzzword in the tech industry. There are cloud-native applications, cloud-native network functions, even cloud-native storage. But, like many buzzwords, the true meaning of cloud-native has itself become clouded by overuse.