How Companies Eliminate Resource Overprovisioning Once and For All
How Companies Eliminate Resource Overprovisioning Once and For All.
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30% of Your Spend on Kubernetes is Wasted-Here's Why
30% of Your Spend on Kubernetes is Wasted—Here's Why.
Validating chaos experiments with GCP Cloud Monitoring probes
GCP Cloud Monitoring probe let you transform your existing GCP metrics into automated pass/fail validation for chaos experiments, eliminating subjective observation in favor of objective measurement. With flexible authentication options (workload identity or service account keys) and PromQL query support, you can validate infrastructure performance against defined thresholds during controlled failure scenarios.
AWS Outage Shows Why UK Businesses Can't Afford Single-Cloud Dependency
The impact of the AWS outage has reminded many businesses of the risk for businesses that rely heavily on centralised cloud infrastructure, especially when so many essential services are concentrated in a single region. But at the wider, industry level, this is also a warning around the widespread lack of contingency planning for cloud failures. Reactive response must give way to strategically planned disaster recovery protocols that engenders a resilient cloud market.
Decoding cloud credits: Are "free" credits locking you in?
Are "free" cloud credits holding your business back? Join us for an online webinar as we explore the hidden risks associated with cloud credits and the impact they have on businesses. Our speakers, Simon Hansford, Chief Commercial Officer at Civo, and James Marks, Founder of Canopy, will share their knowledge and experience on this critical topic. This webinar is based on our recent whitepaper, which examines the "cloud credit trap" and its far-reaching implications for organizations.
Decoding cloud credits: Are "free" credits locking you in?
“Free" cloud credits, they sound like a gift, but they often come with hidden costs and an agenda: lock-in. The illusion of a cost-saving measure can quickly become a vendor-specific trap, forcing costly migrations or leaving your business overpaying for cloud services. This issue, which the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) estimates contributes to £430M of annual over-payments in the UK alone, is what we call the "cloud credit trap.".
Azure status integration is here!
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our Azure status integration, bringing Microsoft Azure’s real-time service health and incident data directly into your StatusGator dashboard and status page. With this new integration, StatusGator automatically imports Azure outages and service status updates from your Azure subscription — giving you a complete, centralized view of your cloud infrastructure alongside every other service you monitor.
FinOps for Hybrid IT: Extending Visibility Beyond the Cloud
Controlling IT spend used to mean managing cloud invoices. Today, it’s far more complex. Modern enterprises run workloads across multiple platforms — cloud, virtualized, and on-premises — each with its own cost structures and dependencies. That’s why FinOps for hybrid IT has become essential. Extending FinOps principles beyond cloud services enables organizations to see how every part of the infrastructure contributes to cost, efficiency, and business value.
Open Source Cloud Orchestration Tools Compared
Before 2011, cloud infrastructure was still new. AWS had launched EC2 and S3 in 2006. But to deploy applications, engineers had to manually spin up servers, configure storage, and set up networking — all by hand or with custom scripts. There were early configuration management tools, such as Chef and Puppet, but those didn’t offer full cloud orchestration. Then in 2011, AWS launched AWS CloudFormation as the first major orchestration tool.
CEO Diaries: Not All AI Talent Is Alike
If Meta’s (now halted) nine-figure AI talent poaching scheme was any indication, the AI talent market is pretty frothy. The number of AI-related job postings has roughly tripled since 2019, and the average salary has more than doubled (Bain). The race is on for companies to find the fastest, most sustainable routes to AI-driven business value; all companies, but especially software companies, are hotly pursuing racers. But despite what Zuckerberg & Co.