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Relationship Between DevOps and FinOps and Azure Cost Management

In this episode of "FinOps on Azure," Richard Fennell, CTO at Black Marble and FinOps certified practitioner Michael Stephenson MVP, discusses the relationship between DevOps, FinOps, and Azure Cost Management. The podcast discusses how integrating FinOps into DevOps practices enhances cost management and optimization. Richard emphasizes the challenges of implementation, the importance of senior management support, and the early involvement of FinOps in development cycles to improve decision-making and identify cost-saving opportunities.

15 New Relic Alternatives To Evaluate In 2024

It’s no secret. Competition is more than fierce in SaaS; it’s also bitter. The competition will enter any market, area, and idea as long as there’s money to fund it — even if the margins are close to zero. Having an observability tool like New Relic or New Relic alternatives can be the key to protecting your margins. A few hours of service disruption, a software bug, or unoptimized code deployment can significantly impact customer experience.

Myth #2 of Apache Spark Optimization: Cluster Autoscaling

In this blog series we’ll be examining the Five Myths of Apache Spark Optimization. (Stay tuned for the entire series!) If you’ve missed Myth #1, check it out here. The second myth examines another common assumption of many Spark practitioners: Cluster Autoscaling stops applications from wasting resources.

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.