Cloud Cost Optimization

Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is a container orchestration platform built on open-source principles. Offering a hard-hitting combination of container management and load balancing across multiple hosts, software developers are provided a major boon. Intricate deployment tasks can now be automated, accelerating development and release cycles.  As a result, Kubernetes is one of the fastest […]

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 […]

While AWS services provide a wealth of mission-critical services – storing over 2.2 trillion objects in S3 – many organizations are left floundering in the solution’s complex pricing structures. Spanning transfer types and geographies, data transfer costs can be hugely unpredictable and rapidly get out of hand.  Below, we leverage decades of industry experience to […]

A spiraling cost problem has emerged among organizations as cloud usage has grown rapidly, coupled with the economic downturn. Join GlobalDots expert engineers in this insightful webinar that unveils the latest innovations and cutting-edge technologies in the realm of FinOps and cloud cost optimization. Discover the key industry trends and best practices that can help […]

Containers are the foundation of today’s hyper-agile DevOps landscape. Developers can enjoy the reliability of a single environment to run code, with no unexpected hiccups or changes between testing and production. Segmented applications benefit from faster and more efficient delivery, as each functionality evolves via its own isolated lifecycle. As powerful as the foundation that […]

Firms are battling to regulate their cloud costs and obtain the right return on investment as cloud expansion advances. Besides the financial demands, a rising technological burden can be intimidating. For non-tech-savvy businesses, taking on this responsibility can be overwhelming and difficult to understand. Business owners ask themselves, what do they need? What can they […]