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Unveiling SharePoint

In the realm of enterprise solutions, Microsoft SharePoint has emerged as a cornerstone for fostering collaboration and managing content. Originating back in 2001, SharePoint has meticulously evolved, aligning itself with the changing dynamics of the corporate world. Today, it stands as a robust platform enabling organizations to create, manage, and share content in a highly secure environment.

Regulating hyperscalers: How the CMA investigation could alter cloud computing

In 2022, Ofcom, a UK regulator, began its market study into the cloud industry to investigate the dominance that hyperscalers, especially AWS and Microsoft, hold over the industry and the limits this creates for customers. This investigation follows concerns surrounding customers feeling “locked in” to a single provider, potentially leading to inflated prices in the market¹.

Office 365 Services Overview

Microsoft Office 365, often simply referred to as Office 365, represents a significant shift in the way we approach work in a digital environment. It’s a subscription service that ensures you always have the most up-to-date modern productivity tools from Microsoft. This suite of services and applications goes beyond the traditional software suite to offer a wide range of tools and solutions to modern-day challenges faced by organizations and individuals alike.

The Top Cloud Cost News From September 2023

When it comes to September’s cloud cost news, cloud-based organizations will have to take a little bit of sour news along with the sweet: Cloud costs continue to rise with inflation, and IBM cloud service users will soon see price hikes, but AWS and Azure have both recently released updates that may help you keep your costs under control. Read on to see how these changes may affect your company in the coming months.

How to reduce Azure costs? | The ultimate tool for Azure cost optimization

Are you struggling to manage and understand your Azure spending? Many businesses face the same struggle in reducing and optimizing their Azure spending. This video discusses the challenges associated with Azure cost optimization and shows how Serverless360 can help you save money on your Azure bill. With Serverless360, you can.

Simplifying Azure for business and support users

Due to Azure's technical complexity, support and business users often face challenges in using the Azure portal. Serverless360 steps in to mitigate these challenges by providing a user-friendly experience for both IT operations and support users, bridging the common challenges in managing Azure-based solutions. In this video by Michael Stephenson, he contrasts the operational and business process views offered by Serverless360 with Azure Portal's deployment-focused perspective.

Monitor Azure Resource Events with LogicMonitor Logs

The integration of Azure’s event-driven model with LogicMonitor’s monitoring capabilities offers businesses a robust solution for real-time IT infrastructure monitoring. LogicMonitor’s cloud-based platform provides a comprehensive overview of an organization’s IT infrastructure, both on cloud and on-prem.

Troubleshooting Common Kafka Conundrums

This is the third blog in our series on Kafka, where we continue to explore the nuances of deploying Kafka for scale. In our previous blogs, Essential Metrics for Kafka Performance Monitoring and Auto-Instrumenting OpenTelemetry for Kafka, we laid the foundation for understanding Kafka’s performance and monitoring aspects. Now, as we explore further into the Kafka ecosystem, we’re here to tackle the common challenges that can arise during deployment and scaling.

How to securely send your telemetry to Grafana Cloud using AWS PrivateLink

Using Grafana Cloud to manage and monitor even your most sensitive data from your AWS services just got easier. If your organization’s workloads are hosted in AWS and you are using a Grafana Cloud instance that’s also hosted in AWS, you can now use AWS PrivateLink to establish a secure connection between your virtual private cloud (VPC) network and Grafana Cloud for all your data.

Securing open source software dependencies in the public cloud

I recently recorded a Lightboard presentation on securing open source software dependencies in the public cloud. This blog summarises, and expands upon, some of the key elements from that presentation: I think about this topic through two lenses: software supply chains and updating software dependencies while maintaining stability.