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Cloud Cost Dashboards: What "A Single Pane Of Glass" Really Means

If you’ve done any shopping around for a cloud cost intelligence platform, you may have heard about the “single pane of glass” approach to presenting cloud cost data. It’s a descriptive phrase uttered by almost every cloud cost company in one form or another. We may not all say it in a similar way, but it’s the same concept across the board.

Learn about LogicMonitor's new launch approach

Check out this on-demand webinar with LogicMonitor’s Chief Product Officer, Taggart Matthiesen, and LogicMonitor’s Senior Director of Product Marketing, Bill Emmett, for a conversation about how our recent product innovations can help you unlock intelligence and extensibility in your hybrid IT environments.

Troubleshooting Hyper-V

In the ever-evolving landscape of IT, virtualization has established itself as an irreplaceable cornerstone. While various platforms offer virtualization services, Microsoft’s Hyper-V stands out as a robust, scalable, and user-friendly option. If you’re an IT professional, chances are you’ve come across Hyper-V at some point in your career. With its intricate features and multi-faceted architecture, Hyper-V serves as the backbone for many virtualized environments.

Understanding Zero Trust Principles

Have you ever wondered how to keep your digital assets truly secure in a world where cyber threats seem to evolve quicker than cybersecurity measures? If so, you might want to consider adopting a Zero Trust security model. Far from being a buzzword, Zero Trust has emerged as a holistic approach to cybersecurity that operates on a straightforward principle: “Never Trust, Always Verify”.

Coralogix Logging vs GCP Logging: Features, Pricing and Support

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers a wide range of features to support their core deliverable, highly available and scalable infrastructure-as-a-service. One of the features—GCP’s log management and available via GCP Log Explorer— is offered to support customers’ basic logging requirements.

When to scale tasks on AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Since its inception, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) has emerged as a strong choice for developers aiming to efficiently deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on AWS cloud. By abstracting the complexities associated with container orchestration, ECS allows teams to focus on application development, while handling the underlying infrastructure, load balancing, and service discovery requirements.

Hyper-V PowerShell Commands: A System Administrator's Guide

Hyper-V has rapidly become an indispensable tool in the system administrator’s toolkit. Not only does it provide a robust, feature-rich platform for virtualization, but it also seamlessly integrates with Windows Server, making it a must-have for any Windows-based enterprise environment. As a system administrator, you’ve probably realized that managing Hyper-V manually through its GUI can be time-consuming.

The Foundation of Cloud Optimization - Cloud Tagging Strategy

Cloud Tagging should be automated, not left to humans. Optimization in the cloud is actually really simple. Here’s how we get our customers thinking differently which in turn makes them successful. “To your developers the cloud is like a candy store is to a kid where all the candy is free”. Just as parents need to teach their kids the value of money, you need to teach your developers the value of cloud spend.

Building Organizational Trust for Cloud Optimization Software

You’ve loaded data into Densify and after reviewing recommendations your developers don’t want to take the recommended action – they aren’t trusting, yet. This is one of the top issues identified by the FinOps Foundation and many of our customers of Densify – but not all. Let’s explore what some customers do differently to build organizational trust in taking optimization recommendations.