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Kubecost Vs. OpenCost: What's The Difference?

Kubernetes (K8s) adoption has exploded over the past few years. But it hasn't been easy to monitor, manage, and optimize K8s costs. To provide greater cost visibility into Kubernetes clusters and environments, Kubecost launched in 2019 while OpenCost debuted in 2022. OpenCost has several founding contributors. But it is Kubecost that developed the cost allocation engine that the OpenCost implementation uses. Kubecost also announced the launch of OpenCost on June 2, 2022.

2bcloud Supports Stor.ai with AWS Adoption in Multi-Cloud Environment

Stor.ai is a retail market ecommerce solutions provider. Its state-of-the art white label retail platform allows clients to quickly and easily connect to inventory, position their brands to develop customer loyalty, and boost average order value. Running a large cloud-based operation requires a well-provisioned cloud platform capable of managing the load and delivering peak performance.

Azure Cloud Automation with Cloudify

If you are reading this, you’re likely familiar with Azure’s cloud solution advantages. Now think how powerful it would be if you could tie them together with the enhancements of the Cloudify platform. You’ll be able to create one great Azure deployment automation solution. It would take advantage of everything you love about Azure while not getting in the way when you move your workloads between private, public, and hybrid clouds.

CloudHedge is Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Native Computing

Iselin, New Jersey – 19th January 2023 – CloudHedge Technologies, an industry pioneer with its end-to-end Continuous Application Modernization platform, OmniDeq™, has been named Cool Vendor in Cloud-Native Computing by Gartner. The report acknowledges CloudHedge’s ability to securely deliver agile digital transformation and modernization journeys for large-scale enterprises, enhancing their efficiency.

How to Assess Current Workloads for a Cloud Migration

Organizations large and small are taking advantage of cloud computing. This can be as simple as leveraging Office 365 or migrating all of their business applications from a data center into the cloud. We’ve all been witness to the explosive growth of cloud applications over the past several years. When organizations start considering migrating business applications to the cloud, there are many considerations, everything from security, compliance, cost, disaster recovery, and more.

Cloud storage pricing - how to optimise TCO

The flexibility of public cloud infrastructure allows for little to no upfront expense, and is great when starting a venture or testing an idea. But once a dataset grows and becomes predictable, it can become a significant base cost, compounded further by additional costs depending on how you are consuming that data.

Maximize Cloud Savings: Advanced Cost Reduction Strategies

Cloud migration can be a powerful way for organizations to reduce costs and improve efficiency. However, simply moving to the cloud is not enough - there are a number of tactics that teams can adopt to maximize cost savings. In this article, I will first explore some common tactics that cloud migration teams use to reduce costs, then share advanced strategies that our most successful customers use to truly take advantage of the cloud for all of its far-reaching benefits.

How to discover advanced persistent threats in AWS

For many organizations, it’s a matter of when, not if, a cybersecurity threat will occur. According to IBM, the average cost of a data breach in 2022 was a staggering $9.44 million in the U.S., with nearly half of breaches happening in the cloud. The longer a threat lingers, the costlier it gets. Advanced persistent threats (APTs), or threat actors that infiltrate cloud infrastructure like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and linger undetected, are on the rise.