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Top Cloud Cost News From March 2025

Spring is unfolding, and your event calendar is about to be overflowing with new FinOps get-togethers. Plus, we’ve got some cloud cost announcements from a couple of the major providers that could affect your bill and your FinOps strategy. Here’s the top news from March 2025 and upcoming events you won’t want to miss.

Is FinOps Certification Worth It? Here's Your Handy Breakdown

At its core, FinOps is a cultural practice that brings together finance, technology, and business teams to manage and optimize cloud spending. For SaaS companies, where cloud infrastructure is integral to operations, FinOps practices directly impact the bottom line. But as with any emerging discipline, the big question is: Is a FinOps certification truly worth the time and financial investment?

Unlock the Secret to IT Efficiency: How Proactive Maintenance Saves You Time, Money, and Headaches

In today's fast-paced business environment, the role of IT has never been more critical. Whether it's keeping your systems secure, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations, or enabling innovative solutions, technology underpins almost every aspect of business performance. However, as essential as IT is, it's also susceptible to breakdowns, inefficiencies, and unexpected challenges. These issues can disrupt operations, drain resources, and lead to expensive downtimes.

How to master the SGA and PGA in Oracle databases

If you have a car or a motorcycle, you frequently tune it to have top-notch performance. Similarly, while using Oracle Database, you need to manage memory effectively. When you get it right, everything runs smoothly; when you get it wrong, you face slow queries and frustrated users. As we are talking about Oracle databases here, you are probably aware of the system global area (SGA) and program global area (PGA) in Oracle, which play a crucial role in database memory management.

The Future of AI Consumption with Chris Sharp, CTO of Digital Realty | Uplink Podcast | Episode 1

What powers the AI revolution? Digital Realty CTO Chris Sharp joins us to explore the evolution of data centers—from invisible infrastructure to the epicenter of next-gen compute. How did data centers transform from invisible infrastructure to the epicenter of the AI revolution? In this fascinating conversation with Chris Sharp, Chief Technology Officer at Digital Realty, we explore the remarkable evolution of digital infrastructure over the past two decades.

Data Center Boom: Navigating the Hottest Industry in the World | Uplink Podcast | Episode 2

How did data centers become one of the hottest industries on the planet? DataBank CEO Raul Martynek joins us to break down the explosive growth of digital infrastructure—and what it really takes to scale in the AI era. The data center industry stands at the epicenter of today's technology revolution, experiencing what industry veterans call "the best market ever seen." In this revealing conversation with DataBank's CEO, we dive deep into the forces driving unprecedented growth in digital infrastructure and why this sector has become perhaps the hottest industry globally.

Building a Software Data Retention Strategy and Why You Need One

Every day, your developers are pushing software. Some of that software will make it to production, but many of those incremental builds will not. While you shouldn’t remove those incremental builds and old release versions haphazardly, if left unchecked, they can clog up your software repositories as well as the workflows and systems they serve.