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June 2024

Understanding the Power of AI Data Fabric

The rapid adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) tools, such as ChatGPT, has transformed various sectors, including marketing, legal, and software development. However, this rapid integration brings challenges, such as managing critical data access, mitigating costs, and ensuring compliance. To address these complexities, enterprises need to upgrade their data center management with an AI Data Fabric Copilot.

AWS EKS Pricing Explained: A 2024 Guide

Cloud computing demands efficient application deployment, management, and scaling. Amazon EKS offers a solid solution, simplifying cloud computing management for organizations. At its core, AWS EKS harnesses the power of Kubernetes to automate tasks within AWS’s secure cloud infrastructure. It supports smooth and reliable application performance, which is crucial for organizations scaling their operations. This guide details AWS EKS pricing and offers practical tips on reducing costs.

What is Generative AI - Everything You Need to Know

This episode of Azure on Air with Azure MVP's Toon Vanhoutte and Lex Hegt provides a comprehensive introduction to generative AI and retrieval-augmented generation, highlighting the capabilities and potential applications of the technology. Toon's practical demonstration of the job matcher copilot showcases the power of Azure OpenAI Service and its ability to deliver accurate and contextually relevant answers to complex queries.

8 questions for cloud cost optimization-Part 2

This is a two-part blog series which covers the fundamental questions businesses need to ask for cost-efficient cloud usage. These questions include: While you can find the first four questions answered in the first part of this series, you can also get access to the full list by downloading our latest white paper, How IT leaders can drive more with less: An enterprise guide to technology adoption and cloud usage in a disrupted economy. Now let’s explore the second half of the checklist.

Gremlin for AWS: Demo from Install to Testing

Gremlin for AWS is a suite of tools to more easily find and fix the reliability risks that cause downtime on AWS. The cloud opens up a range of reliability challenges that didn’t exist before, especially for customers running distributed, mission-critical workloads. Teams experience the pain of failed migrations, frequent incidents, and reliability toil, but often struggle to modernize their approach to reliability as they modernize their infrastructure. That’s where Gremlin for AWS can help.

Azure Advisor Cost Recommendations: Implementation Best Practices

Microsoft Azure offers a variety of solutions for cost management, with Azure Advisor being one of the core features. Azure Advisor provides insights into reservations and right-sizing for various Azure resources. While Microsoft Azure excels at building and deploying solutions, there is often a notable gap when it comes to operations and cost management.

Dedicated Server vs Cloud Server

When hosting your website or application, you have two main options: dedicated servers and cloud servers. This article will explain the differences between these two hosting solutions, helping you understand which one might be the best fit for your needs. We'll look at the features, benefits, and use cases of each option, allowing you to make an informed decision for your hosting environment.

14 Best Online Business Tools for Productivity in 2024

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses constantly seek ways to enhance efficiency, productivity, and profitability. This is where business tools come into play. Online business tools encompass various software applications and services designed to help businesses operate more efficiently and effectively. From project management and communication to marketing and sales, these tools are essential for businesses of all sizes to stay competitive and meet their goals.

Helping companies go beyond savings with Spot by NetApp for FinOps

We’re thrilled to be back again at FinOps X in San Diego. The premier FinOps event of the year, it’s a fitting place to proudly announce that the Spot by NetApp product portfolio is now a FinOps Certified Platform. This FinOps Foundation certification reaffirms our commitment to supporting the FinOps framework and best practices.

Monitoring 101: Gaining Visibility into Your Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

Savvy organizations are embarking on a journey toward Autonomic IT to better manage their IT environments, particularly as hybrid configurations grow in popularity and are accompanied by greater complexity. Driven by AI and automation, Autonomic IT can help organizations optimize resource allocation, improve the effectiveness of maintenance efforts, avoid downtime, and keep end users happy.

Navigating the cost of cloud storage in the public sector

Like many other industries, organisations in the public sector have been keen to make use of the flexibility offered by cloud computing, but are now observing unpredictable and rising costs. Much of which can be mitigated through careful planning and on-premise infrastructure. Government guidance now recommends switching to a strategy of the most appropriate solution for a problem, rather than a one-size-fits-all or carte blanche approach of shifting all applications to the cloud.

What Is Cloud TCO? (Total Cost of Ownership)

Investing in the right systems, assets, and infrastructure is critical to business success. It can be the difference between profitability and loss. Businesses employ several methods to determine the value of a product or service before purchase or adoption. One of those methods is the total cost of ownership. Total cost of ownership (TCO) is the sum of all costs involved in the purchase, operation, and maintenance of a given asset during its lifetime.

3 Ways to Optimize your Kubernetes Clusters with Resource Control

We cover some real world cases and provide valuable insights into how resources might be the source of future angst that you could avoid. With so many moving parts and so many settings it is nearly impossible to avoid resourcing issues and unnecessary cost in container environments.

A Bright Future and Compelling Partnership for VMware Tanzu CloudHealth and its Customers

Broadcom recently announced that Arrow Electronics will now be the sole go-to-market provider of VMware Tanzu CloudHealth. Arrow will provide sales, marketing, and technical support for Tanzu CloudHealth and enhance the user experience through streamlined accessibility, specialized knowledge, and personalized assistance.

Monitoring the IBM Power Ecosystem using Microsoft Azure | Webinar by NiCE

In today’s interconnected and hybrid cloud environments, effective system monitoring is crucial for maintaining performance, reliability, and security. This technical presentation explores how Microsoft Azure enables comprehensive monitoring of the IBM Power ecosystem, explicitly focusing on AIX, Linux on Power, and Linux on Z Series operating systems. Further, active monitoring of HMC and VIOS is considered.

Turbo and DATA Passion extend long-term partnership in Germany

We are delighted to announce the continuation of our successful partnership with DataPassion GmbH in Germany. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, DataPassion has been a trusted collaborator, providing smart application integration services for CRM, ERP, and multi-channel shopping. Their expertise in Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Azure, and Azure Integration Services, has consistently delivered reliable and scalable solutions to our clients.

Remediate Google Cloud issues with new actions in Workflow Automation and App Builder

Datadog Actions help you respond to alerts and manage your infrastructure directly from within Datadog. This can be done by creating workflows that automate end-to-end processes or by using App Builder to build resource management tools and self-serve developer platforms. With more than 550 available actions, Datadog Actions offers capabilities such as creating Jira tickets, resizing autoscaling groups, and triggering GitHub pipelines.

Google VPS Pricing Explained: A 2024 Guide

Organizations are turning to Virtual Private Servers (VPS) for scalable and cost-effective hosting solutions. Google offers a robust VPS option tailored to various organizational needs. Understanding Google VPS pricing can help you make informed decisions and optimize your cloud costs. This guide will explain Google VPS pricing, explore its uses, and provide tips for optimizing these costs with CloudZero.

Introducing an Enhanced & Redefined Tanzu CloudHealth User Experience

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth is a market leading multi-cloud financial management (or FinOps) platform that helps organizations make sense of their cloud data, optimize and control cloud spend, and grow their cloud management practice. More than 22,000 organizations globally rely on our platform to optimize and govern over $24B in annual multi-cloud spend.

Ep. 21 Redefining Observability with Charity Majors

In this episode Charity Majors, the co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, discusses observability in the cloud computing industry. She talks about her experience speaking at Google Cloud Next and the importance of observability in developing software applications. Charity explains how Honeycomb uses AI to assist with constructing queries and how observability is about understanding and developing complex systems. She also emphasizes the need for a single source of truth in observability tools and the shift from metrics to logs.

AWS GP2 Vs. GP3 Volumes: A Side-By-Side Comparison

Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is an efficient and durable block storage service. It is especially great for rapidly changing data on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Besides, Amazon EBS GP volumes promise a balance between performance and cost savings. In this guide, we see if that is the case. We’ll also tell if switching from your current EBS volume type is worth the while.

Comprehensive Cloud Security Solutions in the Bay Area

As businesses increasingly migrate their operations to the cloud, ensuring the security of cloud-based assets has become a top priority. In the tech-savvy Bay Area, where innovation meets enterprise, the demand for robust cloud security solutions is paramount. This article explores what cloud security solutions entail, their importance, and how businesses in the Bay Area can benefit from these services.

Mastering Version Control in SharePoint

In today’s fast-paced work environment, effective document collaboration is crucial for productivity and success. Teams often work simultaneously on projects, requiring seamless communication and coordination to ensure everyone is on the same page. However, managing multiple versions of documents can become a daunting task, leading to potential confusion and errors. Imagine working on an important document only to discover conflicting versions and lost edits.

Simplifying Multi-cloud Visibility

Multi-cloud visibility is a challenge for most IT teams. It requires diverse telemetry and robust network observability to see your application traffic over networks you own, and networks you don’t. Kentik unifies telemetry from multiple cloud providers and the public internet into one place to give IT teams the ability to monitor and troubleshoot application performance across AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle clouds, along with the public internet, for real-time and historical data analysis.

Azure Budget Monitoring

When it comes to managing costs in the Azure cloud, it is essential to have a reliable system that can help you keep track of your spending and alert you when you are getting close to exceeding your budget. This is where Turbo360’s Budgets monitoring feature comes in. The Budgets monitoring feature in Turbo360 is designed specifically for Azure cost monitoring.

How to figure out where: decoding the 'colocation versus on-premise' library

For anyone researching ‘on-premise vs. colocation,’ the results soon become repetitive. Google, AI, and YouTube all return similar material on the pros and cons of each option. Some even include public cloud as a consideration. Yet they all reach exactly the same conclusion: that as a business, you need to figure out what is right for you. Whilst the advice is sound, it is also limited. How exactly can a business assess which infrastructure option is right for them?

State of Cloud Costs

Organizations face significant challenges in increasing the efficiency of their growing cloud spending, even as the flexibility and variety of available cloud services offer many opportunities for optimization. Cloud environments are complex and dynamic due to the breadth of services and the drive to adopt new technologies, such as Arm-based processors and GPUs that enable AI capabilities.

Measuring Progress: Trends in Cloud Native App Platforms Highlight Need for Repeatability

As we navigate the complex terrain of cloud-native applications, the landscape is evolving at an astonishing pace. Seven months since Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, the Tanzu division has been observing these changes, aiming to gain an understanding of landscape and opportunities for cloud-native businesses. What we found is that the cloud native landscape and the use cases it supports are nuanced.

How CEOs Can Have a Bird's Eye View of Their Business While Traveling

The modern era is seeing businesses around the world become increasingly globalized. At the same time, given that remote work has become the norm, CEOs are finding themselves frequently on the move. According to European CEO, CEOs travel from 1 to 10 working days per month for business purposes. In fact, these top-level bosses spend more time traveling than in meetings.

What Is AWS Sizing? 10+ Best Practices And Tips

Organizations moving to the cloud often prioritize speed and performance, overlooking the importance of AWS sizing. At first, Amazon’s pay-as-you-go pricing seems manageable, but as companies grow and add more to the cloud, they see the downside of ignoring sizing. Overprovisioned instances lead to spending on resources that aren’t used. This guide focuses on AWS sizing, its benefits, and why it matters. It provides practical tips and best practices to help optimize costs effectively.

Top 5 Cloud and Networking Announcements From Cisco Live 2024

By Chuck Day, Strategic Alliances Manager, Megaport Amidst the dazzle of Las Vegas, Cisco Live 2024 was a whirlwind of innovation, technology, and camaraderie. Held from June 2-6, this year’s event hosted over 20,000 in-person attendees and nearly one million online viewers, numbers anyone would call a massive success. I was proud to attend on behalf of Megaport as this event was particularly special for us – we got to engage with more people than ever before.

Cloud Migration: Security Shines a Light on Operations' Dark Networks

Dark networks have provided a measure of security to supply-chain operations for a couple of decades. These networks are closed to the outside world, only accessible via the connections between enterprise systems – think warehouse management, enterprise resource planning, etc. – and the rugged mobile devices carried by workers within these environments. And, everything is managed by on-premises device management products that never connect beyond the business’s facilities.

Resolve Actions - Compute: Create new AWS Instance (via Slack)

See how we use our the Resolve Actions automation platform internally to streamline the provisioning of new Resolve Actions Evaluation instances on AWS. Via a ChatBot integration with Slack, Resolve creates the new instance, configures the networking and firewall rules, and informs the Sales Team and Customer of the connection details.

Cloud Savings: 10 Strategies To Save In The Cloud

A common misconception around cloud computing is that it’s automatically cheaper than running on-premises infrastructure. Unfortunately, when businesses switch to (or consider switching to) the cloud, their cloud savings may not be immediately evident. In fact, some businesses accrue more monthly costs with the on-demand cloud model than they would with on-premise systems. This begs the question: Is cloud computing really cost-effective?

Adding config to AWS ECS tasks

When deploying Docker containers to AWS ECS, you can encounter a situation where you want to run an image that requires some configuration. For example, let's say you wanted to run Vector1 as a sidecar to your main application so you can ship your application's metrics to a service like Honeybadger Insights. To run Vector, you only need to provide one configuration file (/etc/vector/vector.yaml) to the image available on Docker Hub.

INTEGRATE 2024 Day 2 Highlights

Dan Toomey, Senior Integration Architect at Deloitte Australia, kicked off the session by highlighting the essential role of business rules in software development. He emphasized the significance of managing evolving and complex business rules, advocating for the use of effective tools like Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) to safeguard code and services.

8 questions for cloud cost optimization-Part 1

Our perception of the cloud is underpinned by three terms: scalable, flexible, and efficient. These adjectives, however, are only the capabilities of the cloud—not the benefits. Turning the cloud’s capabilities into benefits involves understanding the nature of the cloud and optimizing how you use it based on that. From choosing your cloud vendor to rewriting your code for the cloud, our cloud cost efficiency checklist spans a wide spectrum of planning and actions.

VPNs and Cloud Storage: Protecting Data Integrity and Privacy

In an era where data breaches and cyber threats have become all too common, ensuring the integrity and privacy of data has never been more critical. Two powerful tools in this ongoing battle are Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and cloud storage services. Together, they provide a robust defense mechanism for both individuals and businesses, securing sensitive information from prying eyes and unauthorized access.

The Ultimate Cloud Security Checklist: How to Protect Your Brand's Data

The cloud revolution is here. The flexibility, scalability, and cost savings of cloud computing have led businesses of all sizes to migrate operations to the cloud. By 2025, Gartner estimates that over 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms. But this monumental shift is not without risks. High-profile data breaches like the Capital One hack serve as sobering reminders that the cloud introduces new attack surfaces and vulnerabilities.

The Role Of Finance Teams In Cloud Cost Management

As businesses increasingly migrate to cloud-based solutions to enhance their operational flexibility, the challenge of managing cloud expenses has become more pronounced. This development has highlighted the crucial role of finance teams, who are now integral in overseeing these complex cost structures.

INTEGRATE 2024 Day 1 Highlights

Slovo Koltovich, Principal GPM at Microsoft, delivered the keynote at Integrate 2024. He began by discussing Azure Integration Services (AIS), a comprehensive platform enabling the creation of tailored solutions to meet unique requirements. The primary advantage of AIS lies in its focus on security and compliance. With nearly 800 connectors, AIS facilitates connections to numerous data sources. Microsoft invests billions annually in security, with thousands of personnel dedicated to it.

Is investing in AI-driven cloud services worth the expense?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the next significant technological frontier, poised to revolutionize the tech sector, particularly through its massive impact on cloud infrastructures. By 2024, this transformation is expected to be as widespread as managed Kubernetes services, with an estimated 70% of organizations utilizing managed AI services in their cloud setups.

What is Observability and Why You Need IT to Manage Your Hybrid Cloud Environment

In today's digital age, where technology plays a pivotal role in every aspect of our lives, ensuring the smooth and uninterrupted functioning of software applications and systems has become critical. This is where Observability shines. Observability is the ability to gain deep insights into the inner workings of a system, enabling organizations to identify and address issues before they turn into major disruptions.

How to use SharePoint Powershell

The SharePoint Online Management Shell (SPO Management Shell) is an indispensable tool for administrators seeking to harness the full potential of SharePoint Online. Unlike the standard user interface, the SPO Management Shell offers advanced users granular control over their SharePoint environments. Whether you’re managing a complex network of sites or automating routine tasks, the SPO Management Shell provides the flexibility and power to streamline your operations.

VPS vs Cloud Hosting - Which One is Better?

When picking between VPS and cloud hosting for your website, you need to think about your site's particular needs and resources. VPS hosting gives you dedicated resources and more control, while cloud hosting provides scalability and flexibility. This article will look at the main differences between these two hosting types, helping you decide which one is the best choice for your website.

10 Azure FinOps Tools To Consider In 2024

As Azure grows more complex, the need for Azure FinOps tools that simplify financial management increases. In this guide, we’ll explore the best Azure FinOps tools. These tools can turn your cloud spending into a strategic asset and help you tackle the common challenge of rising cloud costs.

Unleash superior workflow oversight for Power Automate Flows

Azure Power Automate is a cloud-based service provided by Microsoft that allows users to create automated workflows between their favourite apps and services to synchronize files, get notifications, collect data, and much more. With Azure Power Automate, users can seamlessly integrate various Microsoft and third-party applications, such as Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Salesforce, Twitter, and Dropbox, among others.

Monitor AWS Batch on Fargate with Datadog

AWS Batch on Fargate is an AWS offering that combines the benefits of AWS Fargate—a serverless compute engine for deploying and managing containers—with AWS Batch, a fully managed service for running batch workloads. Leveraging a pay-per-use pricing model and automatic scaling, AWS Batch on Fargate provides you with a cost-effective and scalable solution for running batch computing workloads without needing to worry about managing any underlying infrastructure.

AWS vs GCP: Which Cloud Service Logs Can Provide the Most Valuable Data to Improve Your Business

The infrastructure and services running on public cloud computing services like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) produce massive volumes of logs every day. An organization’s log data provides details about their entire IT environment in real-time, or at any point in time in history.

Building a Docker Swarm on AWS EC2: A Step-by-Step Guide

In today's tutorial, we're diving into the world of container orchestration by setting up a Docker Swarm on AWS EC2 instances. Docker Swarm allows you to manage a cluster of Docker hosts as a single virtual system, making it easier to deploy and scale your containerized applications. By leveraging the power of AWS EC2, we'll walk through each step to get your Swarm up and running smoothly.

Myth #1 of Apache Spark Optimization: Observability & Monitoring

In this blog series we’ll be examining the Five Myths of Apache Spark Optimization. (Stay tuned for the entire series!) The first myth examines a common assumption of many Spark users: Observing and monitoring your Spark environment means you’ll be able to find the wasteful apps and tune them.

CxOs are loving CloudSpend summary reports: Keeping the cloud financially grounded

CloudSpend Summary Reports The cloud offers a treasure trove of benefits for businesses, including scalability, agility, and access to cutting-edge technologies. However, for CxOs, managing cloud costs effectively can be a constant tightrope walk. Ever feel overwhelmed by your cloud bill? You are not alone! That is where the Summary Report comes in. It is a handy tool to understand your cloud spending and identify potential savings opportunities.

Cloud vs On-Premises Monitoring What if you can´t use the Cloud?

Executive Summary Cloud and on-premises monitoring offer distinct advantages; cloud monitoring provides unmatched scalability and accessibility, while on-premises monitoring ensures enhanced data security, control, and customization. On-premises solutions are essential for industries with strict compliance requirements and sensitive data handling needs, such as healthcare and finance.

CloudWatch Pricing: A Straightforward 2024 Guide

To ensure your company’s cloud-based resources remain continuously available, you need a way to monitor all your applications and quickly detect when something goes wrong — especially if you are running multiple instances and using various products. Amazon’s inbuilt tool, CloudWatch, allows you to do just this. In this article, we’ll cover what AWS CloudWatch is, how it works, and how much it costs.

Mastering SharePoint Document Archiving

In today’s digital age, businesses and organizations increasingly rely on SharePoint to manage their vast amounts of data and documents. However, this reliance often leads to an inevitable challenge: the overflow of document libraries. When left unchecked, these libraries can become overwhelming, cluttered, and inefficient, hampering productivity and making it difficult to locate crucial information.

Enhanced Spot Ocean Controller: The fastest and most efficient scaling for your K8s applications

Fast scaling is a pressing business need in many B2C industries like media distribution, streaming, and gaming. Spot by NetApp is proud to offer the fastest scaling on earth with its enhanced Ocean controller.

Turbo360 is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

We are thrilled to announce that Turbo360 is now available in the Azure Marketplace. This significant milestone underscores our commitment to helping you maximize your ROI on Azure investments. Turbo360 is an advanced Cloud Management platform designed to empower Azure users with significant Cost savings and Infra Monitoring capabilities for complex Azure Environments.

Interview with Engineering Manager, Harsha Patil

In the next edition of our interview series that focuses on senior players in the global tech arena, we welcome Harsha Patil an Engineering Manager overseeing cloud compute infrastructure at an E-commerce company in California, USA. We will explore his career development, offer tips for aspiring engineers, and discuss the key lessons he has learned along the way in this feature.

Taloflow raises $1.3M to automate the soul-sucking software vendor selection process

Taloflow, a Y Combinator W21-batch company, has raised $1.3 million in funding. This investment comes from Wonder Ventures, First Check Ventures, and many notable founders, including the founders of PEER 1, Sacra, and Hootsuite, who share our vision for software vendor selection. Today also marks the launch of our collaborative AI notebook – two years in the making – which automates the research to evaluate tech vendor capabilities for any use case in dozens of B2B categories.

Product Release Notes May 2024

At CloudZero, we pride ourselves on developing a platform that provides an exceptional and engaging user experience across DevOps, Engineering, and Finance organizations. This month, we’re rolling out many enhancements that simplify business-critical processes across the platform, from user management to anomaly detection and remediation to integration setup and maintenance.

Journeying to Autonomic IT in the Face of IT Complexity: Challenges and Solutions for IT Leaders

Modern IT infrastructures are more than just a support system; they are the beating heart of business innovation and success. However, these environments are incredibly complex, which comes with information silos and a lack of visibility, posing a significant barrier to Autonomic IT. One of the main factors contributing to IT operations’ reaching this point of complexity is the growing use of cloud services.

15+ AWS Cost Management Best Practices (Updated 2024)

While there are many advantages to using Amazon Web Services (AWS), cost management can be complicated because so many factors impact your AWS bill. Account setup, savings plans, and a number of other factors can all affect your AWS charges and usage. In this article, we’ll introduce 15 AWS cost management best practices that promote optimization and how you can go beyond AWS cost management by using an advanced cloud cost intelligence tool.

Google Cloud Logging 101 - How to manage log routing at scale

Cloud logging’s log router is a power tool that gives you the flexibility to choose which logs are stored in Cloud Logging, sent to other Google Cloud products like Cloud Storage, or even sent to your favorite third-party product. In this video, we'll explore log sinks, aggregated sinks for centralized management, and the intercepting option to prevent duplicate log storage, equipping you with the knowledge to streamline your log management workflow in Google Cloud.

How Forcepoint Uses CloudZero To Boost Its FinOps Strategy

Nothing makes us prouder at CloudZero than hearing success stories from our long-term clients. Happily, we have another insightful story to share with you today about a company using the CloudZero platform to achieve their cloud finance goals. In the video below, Erik Peterson, founder and CTO of CloudZero, speaks with Mike Surma, director of cloud cost optimization for Forcepoint, to find out exactly which tools and features helped his company the most in its FinOps journey.

The impact of emerging market trends on the edge data centre industry

The edge data centre market (broadly defined as smaller, more distributed data centres, localising data storage and compute closer to end users) is experiencing 92% year on year growth. This growth is being driven by a combination of factors including: Three of the biggest trends impacting the edge data centre market today are.

Generative AI: A Boon with Hidden Burdens for IT

The landscape of artificial intelligence has undergone a seismic shift in recent times. The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT has sparked a revolution, with applications blossoming across various industries. According to recent estimates, 54% of companies had integrated GenAI into their business processes by November 2023. This level of adoption is remarkable, given the nascent stage of these technologies.

The Countries With The Best Cloud Technology In The World

In the past decade, cloud technology has revolutionized the way businesses operate. Offering invaluable benefits such as speed, flexibility, and security, cloud computing has become a necessity for countless companies around the world. Recent research says that more than 94% of organizations have a large portion of their workloads in the cloud. But with so many countries utilizing these systems, which countries around the globe currently have the best cloud technology of all?

Azure Files vs SharePoint Online

In today’s digital era, efficient data storage and management are paramount for businesses of all sizes. With a myriad of cloud storage solutions available, choosing the right one can be daunting. Two popular options, Azure Files and SharePoint Online, offer distinct features tailored to different organizational needs. Understanding the strengths and limitations of each is crucial for making an informed decision.

From Concept to Scale: Promo.com's Journey with Azure and 2bcloud

Promo.com, initially launched as Slidely in 2012, has become a key player in the digital marketing sphere by providing tools that empower small businesses and agencies to create impactful visual content. Transitioning to Promo.com in 2016, the company set out to disrupt traditional video marketing with a user-friendly, browser-based video editor designed for quick and effective video creation.