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December 2021

Pepperdata

Pepperdata Helps Companies Get a Clear View of Their Big Data Stack

Dec 29, 2021 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
Peppedata ends 2021 on a very strong note as a premiere solution for providing visibility and automation for your big data stack. Among the highlights of this year’s run are a few recognitions from our friends at G2. The site gets 5.5 million visits every month from people and enterprises that are looking for reliable solutions that meet both their needs and budget. As the biggest and most trusted marketplace for software vendors and consumers, any award from G2 is always a cause for celebration.
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cloudzero

21 Financial KPIs Every SaaS Company Should Be Monitoring

Dec 29, 2021 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Since the first software-as-a-service (SaaS) company entered the market in 1999, Salesforce, the industry has exploded. Experts are predicting that the industry will exceed $600 billion by 2023 at an 18% compound annual growth rate. In order to play in this highly competitive space, SaaS companies need to have a deep understanding of their financial key performance indicators (KPIs).
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2021 Kubernetes on Big Data Report: Data Management | Pepperdata

Dec 23, 2021 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
Get the Pepperdata 2021 Kubernetes on Big Data report and start your journey of better understanding how your competitors are managing their data with Kubernetes. Cloud vendors have proliferated and promised users optimal performance and tight spend. Still, many of these vendors don't provide visibility into Kubernetes big data, resulting in performance issues, poor resource allocation, overspending, and ineffective tuning. To fully optimize your Kubernetes big data, maximize performance, and reduce spend, you need to step beyond the basic K8s measurements and look at app performance.
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cloudzero

What Are The Different Cloud Cost Models? 3 Types You Need To Know

Dec 20, 2021 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Identifying the best payment plan for cloud services can be a challenge. For one thing, no two businesses are exactly alike. Since each organization faces a unique set of circumstances, it is tough to choose the best option from all the different cloud cost models without taking an in-depth look at business-specific aspects such as demand, spending preferences, and projected revenue over the next few years. On top of that, the payment plans themselves are very often confusing.
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cloudzero

5 IT Financial Management (ITFM) Best Practices To Consider In 2022

Dec 17, 2021 By CloudZero In CloudZero
If IT Financial Management (ITFM) was as simple as widely presumed, we’d be seeing IT expenditure dropping globally with the continued adoption of cloud services. For example, in 2020 it was expected that 83% of enterprise workloads would move to the cloud. That move happened but the results didn’t come with the extensive cost reduction benefits that businesses envisioned. Organizations are actually spending more despite the workload migration.
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cloudzero

The 12 Best AWS Cloud Management Tools - Organized By Category

Dec 15, 2021 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Organizations of all sizes can take advantage of Amazon Web Service’s cloud computing. AWS provides low-cost cloud storage, nearly unlimited compute resources, and secure remote computing services. Still, many users find AWS confusing. Companies often struggle to understand AWS billing. Aligning cloud spend to actual operational activities for cost allocation is next to impossible. AWS also limits the amount of compute resources you can use based on your location.
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FinOps Tools: Supercharge Your Investment with Optimization

Dec 14, 2021 By Densify In Densify
Cost analysis and allocation tools like CloudHealth, CloudCheckr, and Cloudability play an important role in many organizations’ FinOps journeys by assisting with keeping Finance informed, enabling forecasting, and driving accountability. These tools may also help provide visibility and direction around long-term purchases like Savings Plans and RIs. But, slicing and dicing your cloud costs is only the tip of the FinOps iceberg: 85%+ of your cloud savings potential lies beyond refining how you buy cloud services. You also need to optimize what you’re actually purchasing.
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Pepperdata

2021 Pepperdata Survey: The Reality of Kubernetes in Action

Dec 14, 2021 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
More companies than ever before are migrating to Kubernetes and seeing the results of Kubernetes in action. Kubernetes (K8s) is a key platform for big data users, and as such, we wanted to dive deeper and discover some new truths about current Kubernetes challenges and what the solutions might be. We surveyed 600 IT and big data professionals from various industries to determine which big data applications enterprises are moving or intending to move to Kubernetes.
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cloudzero

The 25 Most Important Cloud Metrics For SaaS Companies To Monitor

Dec 13, 2021 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Author Jeff Duntemann said a good tool improves how you work, whereas a great tool transforms your thinking. Companies that want to improve their cloud-based operations can rely on cloud metrics as an effective tool for transforming their cloud operations. You can't fix what you don't measure. Cloud metrics are the logs of data that a cloud infrastructure or application generates.
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cloudzero

5 Refactoring Techniques You Can Use To Improve Your Software

Dec 8, 2021 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Although refactoring isn’t typically listed as one of the core phases of the software development lifecycle, you cannot leave it out if you intend to keep code running efficiently. The unfortunate thing about software is, it doesn’t usually age very well. Even seemingly perfect source code progressively decays over time — due to the ever-morphing tech ecosystem.
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Pepperdata

What is Cloud Repatriation and How to Avoid It with Cloud Cost Management

Dec 7, 2021 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
Cloud computing is one of the great technologies of our era. As such, enterprises everywhere are in a hurry to migrate to the cloud. However, one of the less-talked-about trends of our time is cloud repatriation: the process of enterprises reversing their decision, leaving the cloud, and returning to an on-prem setting. According to TechTarget, 85% of enterprises reported plans of repatriating their workloads from the public cloud in 2019.
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cloudzero

Data-Driven Software Development: How To Make Strategic Dev Decisions

Dec 3, 2021 By CloudZero In CloudZero
A fundamental requirement for building a profitable product is finding ways to reduce costs and improve efficiency. When you’re operating in the cloud, it’s almost impossible to gain this insight without data. This is where data-driven software development comes in. Data-driven development is a software engineering approach that relies on data to guide the development process.
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anodot

AWS Savings Plan: All You Need to Know

Dec 1, 2021 By Anodot In Anodot

Organizations using Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud traditionally leveraged Reserved Instances (RI) to realize cost savings by committing to the use of a specific instance type and operating system within the AWS region. Nearly 2 years ago, AWS rolled out a new program called Savings Plans, which give companies a new way to reduce costs by making an advanced commitment of a one-year or three-year fixed term.

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