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The Cloud Cost Optimization Company | Pepperdata CEO Ash Munshi interview with theCUBE

Pepperdata CEO Ash Munshi discusses Pepperdata's origin from stabilizing big data workloads to optimizing cloud costs in real time. With cost control becoming an imperative for companies with an uncertain economic outlook—as well as a difficulty in managing how they spend in the cloud—Munshi walks through how Pepperdata reduces cloud costs for companies in the Fortune 5 through autonomous and continuous resource utilization.

What Is The Rule Of 40 For SaaS? Here's How To Calculate It

Many SaaS businesses emphasize customer acquisition and retention over growing gross margins, especially during the startup and scale-up stages. It makes sense. A company can grow its revenue faster if it acquires and retains more buying customers as opposed to simply selling more to existing customers. Yet, here’s the thing. Revenue growth measures the increase in the amount of money a business takes in from sales.

How CloudZero Closed A $32M Series B Round In The Weakest Funding Environment In Years

CloudZero just closed at $32M Series B fundraising round in the weakest funding environment since the dawn of the pandemic. The round was led by Innovius Capital and Threshold Ventures, with continued support from existing investors Matrix Partners, Underscore VC, and G20 Ventures. CloudZero is a SaaS product, a data-dense platform delivered via the cloud, mostly to other SaaS companies and digital native businesses (DNBs).

Real-Time, Automated Cost Optimization for Amazon EMR

Running your infrastructure in the cloud can lead to wasted resources and ultimately overspending. Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer for Amazon EMR operates dynamically in real time to optimize performance without the need to model your workloads ahead of time, change application code, or platform settings. It provides autonomous optimization continuously, improving resource utilization at both the instance level and with the EMR autoscaler. Watch the full video for a deep-dive on how Pepperdata solves the problem of cloud overspending and resource waste without manual intervention.

A Guide To Ensuring Profitability For Your SaaS Company

This isn’t the “good old days” anymore. It used to be that cloud companies could pursue growth at all costs and still garner the support of venture capitalists and other investors. In 2023, however, with costs rising and margins getting narrower every day, investors are now favoring companies that can ensure long-term profitability rather than just growth. Now, more than ever before, it’s crucial to drive toward SaaS profitability as the ultimate goal.

Slash Cloud Costs via Pepperdata in the AWS Marketplace

Pepperdata’s cost slashing capabilities are legendary: for the last decade, we’ve been doing just that for some of the largest and most demanding enterprises in the world, including security-conscious global banks, members of the Fortune Five, and other top-tier companies.

IT Cost Optimization: Importance and Best practices

Managing IT costs has become the top priority for many organizations in the modern, fast-paced, and fiercely competitive world. The dependence of organizations on IT infrastructure has increased, making it more challenging than ever to control IT costs. IT cost optimization is critical for businesses to remain competitive and agile in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape.

How To Allocate Cloud Costs After A Company Merger/Acquisition

If you’re going through a merger or an acquisition, you’ll soon have to assemble all the cloud account data from two or more organizations and blend it together to fit your new, larger organization. You may be bringing the companies together to form a new entity or simply absorbing one company into the other; the details don’t matter, because the solution is the same either way.

Optimizing Your K8s Nodes Using FinOps Tools? Try This Instead...

June 7, 2023 It’s no secret that Kubernetes is one of the fastest-growing technologies in use today for deploying and operating applications of all types in the cloud. It’s also no secret that Kubernetes’ popularity is a significant contributor to fast-growing cloud bills. FinOps teams are constantly looking for ways to lower their cloud spend, in cooperation with the DevOps, Engineering and App owner teams that control this infrastructure.

Understand your Kubernetes and ECS spend with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

Rising container usage has fueled a growing reliance on container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, EKS, and ECS. As organizations increasingly opt to run these systems in the cloud, their cloud spend tends not only to grow but also to become more opaque due to the dynamic complexity of these environments. Typically, various services, teams, and products share cluster resources, and as nodes are added and removed, those resources continuously shift.