Tag: cloud costs

July 11, 2024

The complexity within IT infrastructures is increasing, as is the pressure on IT budgets to use available funds as smartly and efficiently as possible. Effective cost management in the cloud is, therefore, becoming increasingly important. Yet many companies still find […]

July 2, 2024

Competition is the engine of progress, driving innovation, technological advancement, and consumer-friendly pricing. This is particularly true in cloud computing, a sector marked by intense rivalry among providers keen to dominate the market through a broad spectrum of services. Yet, […]

May 22, 2024

Mainframe systems are the core of many organizations as they are often used for managing essential processes and information. These are systems that have been in existence for quite a long time, built on dated technology and support, but they […]

May 7, 2024

Paris-based Cloudreso.com has saved 30% on cloud object storage costs by deploying Cubbit’s DS3 distributed object storage. Cloudreso.com is a managed service provider (MSP) that distributes value-added data protection and security solutions. It provides turnkey services across all French-speaking countries, […]

May 1, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has seen a rebound in its year-over-year revenue growth rate, which the firm is attributing to enterprises completing their post-pandemic cloud cost optimisation efforts. The company’s first quarter results, which cover the three months to 31 […]

April 1, 2024

Spending on compute and storage infrastructure for cloud deployments grew 18.5% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to the latest update to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker, which was issued last week. The total […]

March 15, 2024

Public cloud providers are often loathed for charging data transfer or “egress fees” for removing data from a specific cloud provider. If you move data out of a cloud provider, there’s a cost; for instance, you move inventory data from […]

March 12, 2024

Enterprise cost scrutiny tends to follow fast on the heels of spending spikes. In cloud, a migration boom coupled with economic uncertainty drove organizations to clear a path to optimization through a tangle of thorny billing practices and overgrown systems. […]

February 28, 2024

As organizations migrate more workloads, the pressure to keep a lid on cloud cost intensifies. Enterprises prioritized optimization in 2023, leaning on providers to deliver better usage data and implementing FinOps practices to track and trim spending. Kubernetes, the open […]

January 22, 2024

Taming cloud costs is a two-headed beast. Executives must grapple with access governance, usage controls and data access to curb overprovisioning, while also leaning on vendors to reduce billing complexity and provide greater cost structure transparency. For tech leaders, the […]

January 4, 2024

A new report from Tangoe sheds light on FinOps implementations, artificial intelligence, and how to improve cloud costs and financial predictability. Cloud has taken every industry by storm. But the report shows that, despite the apparent benefits, “a variety of […]

December 20, 2023

The cloud is key to enterprise IT, supporting customer-facing applications and the tools employees need for their daily work. But agility and scalability gains can lead to eye-watering bills from providers. More than half of companies say they’ve faced higher […]

November 30, 2023

While global cloud spending continues to rise, AWS and its fellow hyperscalers have been trying to keep customers happy by helping them control cost. More compute for less money, a central tenet of cloud, has been harder to achieve than […]

November 28, 2023

As part of its ongoing efforts to help its enterprise customers rein in cloud costs, AWS on Monday announced several new updates at its re:Invent 2023 conference. The new updates include a new AWS Billing and Cost Management feature, dubbed […]

November 2, 2023

Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT […]

September 28, 2023

A company’s use of cloud-related services tends to be scalable along with the associated costs, which can result in sticker shock at billing time if not carefully managed, according to Vertice. “More product, more features, more development, more customers, more […]

September 6, 2023

IBM is all set to increase its cloud services costs by up to 26% from January 2024. The new price rise will affect infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings, the company said in a GitHub post. International customers will witness […]

September 1, 2023

Cloud finops, a practice that combines financial management and cloud operations, is instrumental in optimizing cloud costs and ensuring efficient resource utilization. It is one of the most important emerging trends in cloud computing, and I’ve covered it a great […]

August 14, 2023

Google Cloud has released Pricing API for its cloud services in order to help enterprises optimize their cloud expenditure as they continue to face macroeconomic uncertainty. The new API, which is currently in public preview, is an improvement over Google’s […]

July 28, 2023

If you want to stay competitive in today’s fast-paced world, implementing cloud computing becomes a necessity. Download Future Processing’s ebook on different sides of successful cloud computing adoption and gain a full insight into the digital transformation with the cloud. […]