Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Analytics

7 Snowflake Alternatives to Help You Lower Costs

The Snowflake data cloud provides storage, reporting, and analytics for organizations that rely on their data to run their day-to-day operations. Snowflake has become a top data warehouse solution for its manageability, superior scalability, always-on data security, advanced analytics, and robust accessibility since its launch from stealth mode in 2014. But Snowflake isn't perfect. For example, Snowflake is a cloud-only solution, so it might not be the best choice for organizations with on-premises data.

InfluxData Announces InfluxDB Edge Data Replication

SAN FRANCISCO, June 15, 2022 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced Edge Data Replication, a new capability for centralized business insights in widely distributed environments. Edge Data Replication enables developers to collect, store and analyze high-precision time series data in InfluxDB at the edge, while replicating all or subsets of this data into InfluxDB Cloud.

Announcing InfluxDB Edge Data Replication: Combining the Power of the Cloud with the Precision of the Edge

There are technical and business reasons to have a time series data presence both at the edge and in the cloud – InfluxDB has always played a key role in both contexts. Today, we’re announcing Edge Data Replication, a new feature that combines these two deployment strategies. With this announcement, InfluxData begins a greater initiative to accommodate both edge and cloud data workloads in one unified solution.

Anodot Supports the FinOps Foundation Mission

As a member of the FinOps organization, Anodot is excited to sponsor the upcoming FinOps X event in Austin, TX. Anodot’s mission has always been to help organizations solve one of the most recognized challenges associated with public cloud adoption — cost control and optimization. Every feature of our Anodot cloud cost management platform has been built by taking a core FinOps market concern and working backward to deliver a capability that fills that need.

Accurately Forecasting Cloud Costs

Most companies today have a “cloud first” computing strategy. According to Foundry’s April 2022 report outlining their 2022 Cloud Computing research, 92% of businesses globally have moved to the cloud. What’s more, the percentage of companies with most or all of their IT infrastructure in the cloud is expected to leap from 41% today to 63% in the next 18 months. As companies move more workloads onto various cloud platforms, cloud budgets continue to increase.

Defining the Edge for IoT with InfluxDB

The 'edge' is the place where the physical world meets the digital world. More and more businesses rely on workloads at the edge, especially in the IoT and IIoT spaces. Define the edge to fit your needs. InfluxDB has the tools and resources to use data at the edge and in the cloud, and to create reliable, durable data pipelines between them.

Optimize Resources Through Apache Spark Tuning (Part Two)

In part one of this two-part blog post, we began our deep dive into Apache Spark tuning to optimize resources. We looked at what is involved in executor and partition sizing, particularly choosing the number of partitions and choosing an executor size. After establishing some principles of optimization here, we ended by asking an important question: Is it really practical for all applications to be optimized? As our recent State of the Market report helped reveal, the answer is two-sided. The good news?

Bboxx Taps Time Series Data to Light Up the Developing World

Using technology to help businesses thrive is always a thrill, but it doesn’t compare to the sense of accomplishment on both a personal and organizational level when you see your tech used to positively impact humanity. It’s one thing to function in a support role for these initiatives, but it’s also important to acknowledge the businesses at the vanguard, building their primary mission around positive human and global impact.