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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.

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.