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Allan Vermeulen On S3, Jeff Bezos, The Beatles, And Much More

Apr 17, 2023 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
As we were planning “Cloud Atlas,” our primary goal was to talk with someone who was “in the room” during the genesis of the cloud. Allan Vermeulen, who worked for Amazon from 1999-2021, and who proposed Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), became that source. Allan is a born engineer. He has always enjoyed building things — whether “out of bits and software or boards and lumber,” Allan takes pleasure in creating useful things.
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Pepperdata

6 Reasons Why Manual Infrastructure Optimization Doesn't Work

Apr 11, 2023 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
IT spend on big data systems in 2023 is forecasted to be $222 billion (Statista.com: Information spending on data center systems worldwide from 2012 to 2023). Actual monetary cost is just one parameter: infrastructure resources, personnel, and the overall time taken to retrieve big data insights push spending even further.
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How To Spot Cost Inefficiencies In Your Cloud

Apr 10, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
It’s almost impossible to create an optimized cloud system out of the gate and keep it running at a perfect balance over the long term. There’s almost always something that could benefit from some tweaks and adjustments. Cloud costs have a way of creeping up slowly while you’re not paying attention. And if you’re not careful, they can spiral out of control before you realize anything is happening.
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manageengine

8 reasons customers choose CloudSpend over native cloud billing tools

Apr 6, 2023 By CloudSpend In ManageEngine

CloudSpend-Cloud cost management FinOps professionals often find it difficult to gain full visibility of cost overruns resulting from cloud wastage. MangageEngine CloudSpend is a cloud cost management tool that helps you reduce cloud wastage and save costs. If you are a sysadmin or a FinOps professional and are wondering what CloudSpend does that native cloud billing tools don’t, this article is for you.

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Cloud Atlas, Episode 1: The Cloud Gathers

Apr 4, 2023 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
Just about everything you interact with digitally is enabled by the cloud. Whether you’re doom-scrolling on Instagram, binge-watching on Netflix, ride-hailing on Uber, or downloading super-cool cloud podcasts (hint, hint) on Spotify, you’re using the cloud. But most people don’t have any idea what the cloud is, where it came from, or what we, as a species, spend on it.
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Cloud Atlas, Episode 3: The Big Bang

Apr 4, 2023 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
An easy way to understand what the early cloud did is to think of it like a public utility. The same way buildings depend on a common set of utilities — gas, electricity, and water — software projects depend on a common set of services: compute, storage, and database. “Compute” refers to the power it takes to run the software.
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5 Essential Things Every FinOps Team Needs

Apr 3, 2023 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Every time your company onboards a new client or releases a new product, your cloud bill will grow. In fact, it doesn’t take a large event at all to see a spike. Whenever your company changes direction even slightly, it can affect the bottom line. Add to that factors such as economic inflation and increased demand for high-speed, high-power cloud services, and it may seem like each month’s cloud bill is higher than it was before. If that’s the case for you, you’re not alone.
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Supercharging Your Amazon Investment With EKS And CloudZero

Mar 30, 2023 By Erik Peterson In CloudZero
Kubernetes has been described as everything from “awesome!” to “I regret my life choices,” and with 84% of all Kubernetes cloud workloads running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), it should come as no surprise that AWS created Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to eliminate much of the undifferentiated heavy lifting it often takes to manage. What do companies like about Amazon EKS?
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Three Tech Options To Turbo-Charge Your New Construction Company

Mar 29, 2023 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Launching a new company is a process that is going to leave you with more grey hairs than you started with. You will be putting everything that you have on the line, from your savings to your reputation, but it will all be worth it when that gamble on yourself pays off. Heading into the construction industry is always going to be an uphill struggle, as you will be competing against established firms with long-standing ties to clients. But you will have flexibility on your side, and the chance to incorporate new tech from day one.
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