Tag: cloud cost management

Reducing Energy Consumption With Cloud Cost Efficiency
A new study from Stanford University found that it takes 75 gigajoules per year of energy for a person to have a good, long life, but the average American uses nearly four ...

Four Steps to Avoiding a Cloud Cost Incident
The recent Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud Report found that organizations waste 32% of their cloud spend, up from 3o% last year. This can be due to cloud cost incidents triggered ...

Survey Surfaces Multi-Cloud Computing and Cost Challenges
A survey of 360 CIOs and IT leaders in the U.S. and the United Kingdom found that, as the number of cloud platforms an organization employs expands, the number of tools they ...

IT Spending to Reach $4.4 Trillion in 2022
For those who doubted the digital transformation trend, it’s become clear that it’s not a marketing fad or a buzzword but is now standard operating protocol for businesses. A forecast released this ...

How Observability Can Improve Gaming
Competing in the gaming industry is becoming increasingly costly. To attract new players, millions of dollars are spent in user acquisition (UA), development and cloud infrastructure. As the space becomes more expensive, ...

Debunking 6 Stubborn Public Cloud Myths
A lot of enterprises migrate to the public cloud because they see everyone else doing it. And while you should stay up on the latest and greatest innovations—which often happen in the ...

FinOps Cloud Cost Optimization via Governance-as-Code
Cloud implementations continue to grow in scope and complexity. Too often, this expansion also means costs keep spiraling out of control. In this article, we’ll examine why the emerging practice of cloud ...

Harness Updates Cloud Cost Control Tool for DevOps Teams
Harness today announced that it has updated its cloud cost management (CCM) module for its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to add support for Kubernetes at the node level in addition ...

Designing Cost-Efficient Cloud Environments
Today, the days of on-premises data centers are mostly behind us, and the cloud has largely taken over with the promise of scalability, flexibility and cost-efficiency. Despite these promises, the cloud often ...

The Rise of the Cloud Economist: The Other CFO
The new Cloud Economist job title wrangles runaway cloud costs Have you ever forgotten about a subscription? Maybe it was that Amazon Fresh upgrade you never used, charging you monthly payments. Or, ...

Review, Review, Review
Ossification is an issue in IT, and always has been. It is borne largely out of staff and management knowing what to expect from existing software/infrastructure, and the deep product knowledge that ...

Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization For The Enterprise
Multi-cloud is an increasingly popular approach for deploying enterprise computing assets. But, in the same vein, managing cloud costs has become a huge challenge. Whilst public cloud continues to grow in popularity, ...