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How to Implement FinOps Successfully - Episode 5 / Operate Phase

This is the fifth and final part of this FinOps series, The Operate Phase. If you have missed any of my previous blogs, here is a list of posts in the series: Note: I am ex-AWS, so you will notice a lot more focus on AWS tools and services as examples here, however we are cloud agnostic and all cloud providers have similar services and tools.

What's Your Data Center Energy Cost? [Free Calculator]

Do you know what your power density per rack is? How about what it costs to power each individual rack for a year? Or all your racks combined? The fact is that most data center managers don’t know this information, which can be incredibly valuable when it comes to power capacity planning, energy management, and maximizing the utilization of existing resources. That’s why we created a simple and free tool to make it easy for you to understand your power density and data center energy costs.

Scalability Testing Best Practices

Will your software perform well during peak hours? Can it handle the load during sales periods? Is your infrastructure valid if you double your sales by the end of the year? These are just some of the questions that scalability testing can help you answer. Scalability testing evaluates the activity level of your application by upscaling and downscaling the number of users.

The PwnKit vulnerability: Overview, detection, and remediation

On January 25, 2022, Qualys announced the discovery of a local privilege escalation vulnerability that it identified as PwnKit. The PwnKit vulnerability affects PolicyKit’s pkexec, a SUID-root program installed by default on many Linux distributions. The same day of the announcement, a proof of concept (PoC) exploit was built and published by the security research community.

IP ranges - better security for more confidence

Today, we’re announcing that one of our most popular feature requests, IP ranges, is now generally available for CircleCI Cloud customers. This feature enables teams to meet compliance requirements by limiting the connections that communicate with their infrastructure. No company wants to give the entire internet access to their artifact repositories or other sensitive environments. With IP ranges, teams are able to open up their IP-based firewalls to only CircleCI.

Is the industry bullish enough on Open vRAN?

The Open virtualized Radio Access Network (Open vRAN) ecosystem poses a real need for communication service providers (CSPs) and vendors to change the way they plan and operate upcoming network deployments, particularly 5G. Open vRAN or open and virtualized RAN is defined as an architecture that uses a combination of disaggregated network functions, off the shelf hardware, and software to enable maximum flexibility in deployment and operations.

Robin.io named one of the best container storage products of 2022

For the second time in a row, Robin.io has been named among the world’s leading storage products by Storage Newsletter. Robin’s flagship product, Robin Cloud Native Storage (CNS) is custom-built for the purpose of deploying and managing stateful applications with 1-click simplicity. At the time of its launch, the industry was seeing increasing Kubernetes adoption, and businesses and their IT teams were exploring use cases that extended beyond stateless applications.