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November 2021

Cloud cost management and optimization: How to regain control over your bill

The cloud is today one of the most expensive resources for any modern organization, second only to employee salaries and overhead. According to recent research by Gartner, end-user spending on public cloud services will reach $396 billion in 2021 and grow 21.7% to reach $482 billion in 2022. By 2026, Gartner predicts public cloud spending will exceed 45% of all enterprise IT spending, up from less than 17% in 2021.

Virtana Optimize | Cloud Cost Management Solution

With Virtana Optimize, you can increase your advantage by optimizing your capacity and cost in real time on an ongoing basis. Our real-time data collection and analytics identify unused resources that can be eliminated so you can stay on budget, even as conditions and options change, and avoid an end-of-month billing surprise.

41+ BI Tools Every SaaS Company Needs To Know About

Today, data is a bit of an esoteric concept. Data is contextual and you need to understand the data that’s important to you. For instance, cost data. Cost insight has given companies the ability to make informed engineering, product, and business decisions like rearchitecting software or pricing your product for higher profitability. However, to do this optimally, you’ll need to establish the right systems and practices. This is where business intelligence (BI) tools come in.

7 Cloudability Alternatives For Cloud Cost Management (Updated 2021)

If you are fine using a conventional cloud cost management tool, Apptio's Cloudability can be a helpful tool. It promises to enable DevOps, IT, and finance to optimize cloud resources for quality, speed, and cost. A large business with a high cloud spend, a team of 5-10 engineers, and a budget for expert guidance is an ideal match for Cloudability.

What Are On-Demand Instances And When Should You Use Them?

According to Amazon, On-Demand Instances are best reserved for short-term processes with uneven workloads that cannot be interrupted. This might partly explain why such EC2 instances are exceedingly popular with AWS users. On the flip side, however, it turns out that On-Demand Instances are also getting dumped for the sake of cloud cost optimization. Our recent Spot Instances guide, for instance, advises AWS users to consider making a switch and, consequently, enjoy up to 90% cost savings.

A Simple Guide to Taming the Beast That Is Kubernetes

Containers are amazing. But when you start to orchestrate them in a complex environment, they can become quite the beast. Kubernetes is one of the best tools to tame that beast, but few resources exist to help you manage your big data workloads on Kubernetes. If you want to learn how you can optimize your big data workloads on Kubernetes, this is for you.

Lower Your Google Cloud Costs with These 5 Google Dataproc Best Practices

Thinking about using Google Dataproc as your cloud vendor? We can see why. Google Dataproc is a powerful tool for analytics and data processing, but to get the most out of it you have to ensure you use it properly. We’re going to explore five best practices you can use to lower your Google cloud costs while maximizing efficiency: Following these tips will ensure the best performance and help keep your cloud costs in line.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Learn How to Simplify Kubernetes Performance Management | Pepperdata

Complex applications running on Kubernetes scale super fast, but this can create visibility gaps that can make detecting and troubleshooting Kubernetes issues as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack. Although Docker and Kubernetes are now becoming standard components when building and orchestrating applications, you’re still responsible for managing the performance of applications built atop this new stack.

Big Data Performance Management Solution Top Considerations

The growing adoption of Hadoop and Spark has increased demand for Big Data and Performance Management solutions that operate at scale. However, enterprise organizations quickly realize that scaling from pilot projects to large-scale production clusters involves a steep learning curve. Despite progress, DevOps teams still struggle with multi-tenancy, cluster performance, and workflow monitoring. This webinar discusses the top considerations when choosing a big data performance management solution.

The 3 Best Ways To Talk To Your C-Suite About Cloud Costs

For any company working in the cloud or using managed cloud services to create products, cloud costs represent a significant expense. If you lead an engineering team, you may have to defend your bill to your CEO or CFO. But here’s the challenge: Cloud costs can be difficult to communicate because engineers and executives often think about cost from different perspectives. As an engineer, you may think of costs in terms of AWS services, such as EC2 instances, storage, etc.