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How to Lower Your Cloud Costs

Oct 9, 2024 By Chuck Day In Megaport
Cloud costs can pile up quickly, and often behind the scenes. We explain how you can help your business keep cloud spend under control. Enterprises—including small- to medium-sized—often find themselves struggling to manage costs and predict their cloud storage. And it’s not necessarily because we’re acquiring more things – it’s because the things we have are getting bigger.
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Optimize Your Spend

Oct 9, 2024 By Ivanti In Ivanti
In this video, we explore practical techniques and best practices for reducing TCO and optimizing your IT budget. Discover how to make informed decisions, improve operational efficiency, and create a seamless employee experience. Watch now and learn how to reduce your TCO and optimize your IT spend. Find the right ESM solution for your needs at ivanti.com.
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Databricks Alternatives For Data Intelligence in 2024

Oct 9, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Data drives decisions forward. Every insight leads to action. A 2024 Gartner report revealed that organizations utilizing analytics and AI are better positioned to manage complexity, build trust in data, and empower their teams. This underscores the critical role of data intelligence. It involves collecting and analyzing data to uncover patterns and trends that help businesses take action. As a result, they can make informed decisions, optimize performance, and gain a competitive edge.
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25 Azure Monitoring Tools To Consider For Cloud Optimization

Oct 7, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Microsoft Azure is the most popular cloud computing platform after Amazon Web Services (AWS). With over 200 services and resources available, there are plenty of ways to use Azure. This means the Azure public cloud allows hundreds, if not thousands, of unique configurations. This flexibility is ideal for tailoring Azure to your workload’s requirements but also makes cloud management more challenging.
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Cost Guide: How to Manage IT Costs Effectively

Oct 7, 2024 By Lauren Ballejos In NinjaOne
In this article, you will learn effective ways on how to manage IT costs. Recently, IT departments face increasing pressure to reduce costs while maintaining high-quality services. A McKinsey and University of Oxford study found that large IT projects, on average, run 45% over budget and 7% over time while delivering 56% less value than predicted. This alarming trend emphasizes the need for effective IT cost management strategies.
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AWS Cost Explorer Vs. Cost And Usage Report: How To Use Each

Oct 4, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
A major problem led Amazon to introduce Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Reports. Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) users were overspending on services they couldn’t quite identify. Before the two cloud financial management tools, the AWS public cloud was like a buffet menu without prices. Engineers could use as many cloud resources as possible (and then some), only to be hit with surprise bills at the end of the month or billing cycle.
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Azure Cost Allocation to manage Azure spend and get the most out of it

Oct 3, 2024 By Victor Garcia In Turbo360
As more and more companies are moving their operations to the cloud, cost management becomes one of the significant concerns, and Azure cost allocation provides the solution for it. Due to the fact that more and more companies use Azure services, it has become crucial to define the correct Azure cost allocation and resource management.
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Google Cloud Monitoring Guide: Best Practices And Tools To Use

Oct 2, 2024 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers a great alternative to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. If you use Google Products extensively at work, such as Google Workspace, moving to GCP may be a natural choice. Perhaps you already use GCP with AWS, Azure, or another cloud provider as part of your hybrid cloud strategy. But maybe you struggle to manage GCP costs, monitor security and compliance, and observe performance.
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5 Azure Optimizations That Make Cloud Cost Savings Simple

Oct 2, 2024 By Dustin Lowman In CloudZero
As both the State Of FinOps 2024 and the State Of Cloud Costs In 2024 indicate, reducing cloud waste remains a top priority for cloud-driven organizations. Cloud spenders care more than ever about cost efficiency — and CloudZero is working tirelessly to make cloud savings simpler. To this end, we’re proud to announce that we’ve added a suite of automated Azure optimizations to our already robust library of automated Insights.
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Unlocking Massive Savings Through SaaS Expense Management

Unlocking Massive Savings Through SaaS Expense Management

Oct 2, 2024 By Samitha Nagasinghe, Project Manager at Calero In OpsMatters
Over the course of the 2010s, corporate adoption of cloud productivity services skyrocketed. This meant that by the end of 2020, entire C-level teams were in for a rude awakening: spend on SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) subscriptions had increased with little control. Budgeting on SaaS spend became a matter of pricing without any real analysis being done on the multi-layered spending structure, revealing an overlapping set of dormant subscriptions and underused licenses. One global retailer thought it paid $80 million for 220 known SaaS apps - until an audit set the record straight.
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