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Complete Azure SQL Pricing Guide

Azure Structured Query Language (SQL) has 18 different deployment options, service tiers, compute models, and two different pricing models: vCores and Database Transaction Units (DTU). Because of these complexities, it’s nearly impossible to project monthly budgets! This guide will explain the common Azure SQL pricing configurations and offer tips on optimizing your cloud budget.

GenAI Efficiency 101: 2 Easy Ways To Proactively Maximize ROI On GenAI Projects

Republicans and Democrats don’t agree on much, but when it comes to generative AI, they’ve managed to find 32 billion points of agreement. On May 15, a bipartisan group of senators unveiled a roadmap that would have the U.S. government spending $32 billion annually by 2026 to drive AI-related innovation. The U.S. isn’t alone; AI spending in India is growing at an annual average rate of 31.5%, and will exceed $5 billion by 2027.

Mastering Cloud Cost Optimization? 15+ Best Practices For 2024

The cloud offers on-demand computing resources, the ability to increase or reduce usage as needed, and the flexibility to pay only for what you use. But if you’ve been building on the cloud for some time, you know that the last part isn’t exactly straightforward. For example, leaving aggressive product features, engineering sessions, or testing projects unchecked can quickly waste thousands, even millions of dollars in a matter of days.

How Logz.io Provides Trustworthy Observability through AI

The business of observability is all about data: what you’re observing in the data, how you’re visualizing it, what it indicates about the state of your environment, and how to address issues that may occur. Creating your own perspective for observability, and understanding what you’re seeing, can be difficult.

Retail Observability | Softcat + Grafana

Grafana empowers retailers to deliver unmatched customer experiences, reduce costs, and optimize delivery with omnichannel observability. Innovate faster, increase agility, and watch your business thrive. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

Edge Computing vs Cloud Computing: Key Differences Explained

Edge computing vs cloud computing: what's best for your business? Finding the best approach for your business can take some trial and error, as well as some time researching how each technology and digital infrastructure choice can support your business goals. When choosing between cloud and edge computing, you will need to know what they are, what the differences between the two are, and how each can strengthen your business's operations in its own way.

Why "page.goto()" is slowing down your Playwright tests

When you invest time and effort into creating a well-running end-to-end test suite or adopt Playwright synthetic monitoring with Checkly, you should focus on two things. Your tests must be stable because few things are worse than an unreliable test suite. But also, your tests must be fast because no one wants to wait hours to receive the green light when you're on the edge of your seat to deploy this critical production hotfix.

One console to rule them all - from mobile devices to servers

Use of mobile devices in today’s modern, distributed workplace is now the norm. They offer broad connectivity, powerful computing, and ease of use, but unmanaged mobile devices can also lead to user frustration while increasing an organization’s attack surface. Fortunately, NinjaOne solves for that. We are thrilled to announce the official launch of NinjaOne Mobile Device Management (MDM). A natural extension to our No. 1-rated endpoint management platform, NinjaOne MDM helps IT organizations reduce cost and complexity, and improve security posture by enabling efficient management for Android and Apple mobile devices — alongside Windows, macOS, Linux, VMs and networking devices — all within a single, easy-to-use console. Sound enticing?

The Ultimate Guide to Intune Migrations to Ivanti UEM

If you have purchased Ivanti UEM and are migrating to it from Microsoft Intune, you as an IT administrator must understand and execute several critical steps to make that transition smoothly. In this series of blogs, I will be looking from an Intune admin’s perspective at what it takes to migrate from Intune to Ivanti UEM. I will cover practical elements and best practices, translating terminology used across both products to pave the way for a seamless and successful transition.