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Cloud Cost Optimization Services Beyond Tools: Building A Sustainable Operating Model

Dec 17, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
If you’ve already worked through cloud cost optimization strategies, the fundamentals aren’t new. CloudZero’s State of Cloud Cost report shows that cloud cost optimization is now a priority for most organizations. We’ve also covered these foundations in depth, including how cloud cost optimization works in practice and how FinOps teams approach cost accountability. What’s less discussed is what happens next. Cloud environments don’t stand still. Architectures change.
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Breaking things fast: A new Approach to QA and testing

Dec 17, 2025 By Upsun In Upsun
This post is based on Greg Qualls, Director of Product Marketing, presentation, "Accelerating QA and Testing," at SymfonyCon 2024. We utilized AI tools for transcription and to enhance the structure and clarity of the content. Before we dive in, I have over 18 years of experience in sales. If, at times, I sound like I'm trying to sell you something, please forgive me. I promise I'm not.
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Build or buy, that is the question

Dec 17, 2025 By Jessica Orozco In Upsun
For IT leaders who need to move fast without breaking governance. If you’re running IT for a bank, a SaaS company, or a Higher education institution, you’re carrying a brutal balancing act on your shoulders. On one side, your developers are pushing for autonomy, velocity, and the freedom to ship. On the other hand, you’re on the hook for governance, compliance, security, cost controls, and now that AI has entered the chat, innovation at scale.
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AI & FinOps: The New Power Duo Driving Modern Profitability

Dec 16, 2025 By David Aponovich In CloudZero
FinOps teams have been expected to understand millions of dollars in cloud and AI spend using tools that a handful of (usually technical) specialists can operate. Dashboards, filters, exports, and SQL have been the norm. That era is over. CloudZero is now bringing AI directly into the FinOps workflow so anyone in the business can ask natural-language questions about cloud and AI spend, and get accurate answers back from the platform.
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Preparing your eCommerce platform performance for Black Friday

Dec 16, 2025 By Upsun In Upsun
This blog is based on an Upsun livestream discussion featuring Guillaume Moigneu, Field Engineer, and Thomas di Luccio, Product Manager at Upsun. The conversation was moderated by Greg Qualls. We utilized AI tools for transcription and to enhance the structure and clarity of the content. When Black Friday approaches, the stakes are high for eCommerce businesses.
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Discover how to build AI-augmented applications with enterprise-grade security

Dec 16, 2025 By Upsun In Upsun
IT leaders want AI that moves the needle without blowing up risk, cost, or changing control. Your teams need a path to productize AI features on top of existing apps, connect safely to external models, and satisfy audit requirements without slowing delivery. Those are the core buying criteria we hear from IT middle management: buy over build, predictable outcomes, and a strong compliance posture.
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Why local internet traffic matters more than you think

Dec 16, 2025 By Mike Hoy In Pulsant
Imagine sending a letter to your neighbour across the street, only for it to be routed through London or even Amsterdam before landing in their letterbox. This is effectively what happens to much of Scotland’s internet traffic. Despite physical proximity between users, businesses and services, digital data is frequently sent on needlessly long journeys, often leaving the country before reaching its destination.
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Risks of Sharing Personal Information Online and Ways to Protect It

Risks of Sharing Personal Information Online and Ways to Protect It

Dec 16, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
We know that you, like any other person, like to share stuff on the internet. Went on vacation? Post images of your family and tag the resort. Got promotion? Why not tag the company in the post on LinkedIn? Found a fun quiz on Facebook? Of course, it'd be fun to take it. But what if we tell you those are the things that help criminals to get as close to you as possible?
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How Prop Firms Leverage Technology for Efficient Trading

How Prop Firms Leverage Technology for Efficient Trading

Dec 16, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In the fast-paced world of financial trading, speed, precision, and insight are critical to success. Proprietary trading firms, or prop firms, have emerged as specialized entities that trade financial instruments using their own capital rather than client funds. Their unique business model relies heavily on operational efficiency, and technology has become a central pillar in achieving this efficiency. Understanding how these firms operate and the role of technology in their strategies provides a glimpse into the future of trading.
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The cloud the way you want it: Introducing cloud parity

Dec 15, 2025 By Civo In Civo
For decades, there have been two incompatible worlds in cloud: Public (AWS, Google, Microsoft) and Private (VMware, Nutanix). Moving between them meant throwing everything away and re-architecting your systems. Civo is rewriting that script. This final thought from the Civo keynote at Civo Navigate London 2025 introduces Cloud Parity: the elimination of the public/private gap. It's just one way of working, with the same product, same API, and same support.
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