Cloud Cost Optimization

In 2023, Microsoft’s total annual revenue exceeded $211 billion for the first time ever. A key driving force was its intelligent cloud segment, which has retained its position as Microsoft’s powertrain since 2020. There’s no disputing that Azure has emerged as one of the most sought-after cloud offerings on the market. However, while Azure bolsters […]

Amazon is locked in the race against rising energy and infrastructure costs. Their per-instance pricing has halted its freefall after years of relentless reductions; at the same time, external pressures are threatening a big squeeze on organizations’ budgets. Identifying and understanding AWS spend is quasi-analytical – controlling it is wholly cultural. Unifying these requires fluency […]

Imagine navigating your digital ship through the turbulent seas of cloud storage management. One wrong calculation, and you’re either sinking under the weight of overprovisioning or losing speed due to performance hiccups. But what if there was a compass that could make this voyage smooth sailing? GlobalDots presents you with an Autoscaler that’s revolutionizing the […]

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Before widespread cloud adoption, the cloud’s major selling point was a reduction in computing costs. Today, however, many organizations find themselves mired in increasingly costly and complex cloud environments, even forcing industry leaders such as Nvidia back toward on-prem setups. The priorities upheld by DevOps throughout the last decade have played a major role in […]

Recently, Google announced substantial changes to its BigQuery service, which came into effect on July 5, 2023. This blog post is dedicated to helping you understand these modifications and the potential impact they could have on your GCP’s costs, thereby enabling you to make informed decisions during your FinOps journey.  Google BigQuery is an enterprise-level, […]

Cloud infrastructure comprises vast swathes of interconnected components. Offering unparalleled scalability and resources, businesses have spent the last decade exploring the cloud’s hyper-agile tools – to great innovation. Between 2010 and 2023, the global cloud computing market grew from $24.63 billion to $600 billion; cloud migration has upended industries and, on the surface, shows no […]

Are you on a mission to tame your IT budget? With tools for automatic RI & SP purchases, real-time K8s pod auto-scaling, and advanced storage compression techniques at their disposal, our Cloud Innovation Hunters are in the wild – relentlessly seeking out the best FinOps solutions.  Plus, we’re tackling egress costs in ways you wouldn’t […]

Cloud spend’s drastic growth has reached a tipping point. Today, an unsettled economy and maturing approach to cloud resources have poured fuel on the fire of cloud FinOps interest.  The 2023 State of FinOps report shows how this interest has translated into increasingly rapid cost forecasting, as organizations scramble to define and refocus their monthly cloud […]

2023’s economic situation is looking dire – projections of stagnation and recession flourish, with customer spending all but guaranteed to tighten. Following years of relentless spending increases, cloud infrastructure reigns as one of the single highest enterprise expenses. FinOps is a practice that’s always evolving: this year, it promises to take center-stage. Faced with a […]

In an era where more observability vendors are offering tracing ingestion and visualization as part of their services, GlobalDots stands out by providing a set of data optimization features that significantly reduce costs, maximize insights, and create a scalable tracing strategy​. The Need for Cost-Effective Tracing Tracing is designed to track every single interaction within […]

FinOps is a strategic framework designed to manage and optimize cloud costs effectively. It’s a transformative approach that brings financial accountability to the forefront of the variable spend model of cloud computing. This model allows businesses to gain a firm grip on their cloud expenses, ensuring that every dollar spent is accounted for and utilized […]