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Top 5 Benefits of Cloud Computing for Businesses

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  Cloud computing is transforming how businesses operate — making IT more agile, cost-effective, and secure. Here are the top five benefits :   Cost Efficiency – Say goodbye to heavy CapEx . Cloud lets you pay only for what you use, reducing infrastructure and maintenance costs.   Scalability – Instantly scale resources up or down based on demand without service interruptions.   Accessibility – Enable remote teams to collaborate from anywhere with secure access to apps and data.   Data Security – Benefit from advanced encryption, IAM, and threat monitoring from trusted providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP.   Business Continuity – Cloud offers built-in backups and disaster recovery tools to ensure operations never stop.   Embrace the cloud to drive innovation, performance, and resilience in 2025.   Read full article here

Six Ways to Optimize your Azure Cloud Costs

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One of the biggest reasons of moving to the cloud is reduced costs. But cloud computing can be tricky; failure to correctly assess requirements and identify best-fit services can end up costing an organization a lot more than they may have originally anticipated. If you’re moving to Azure or already have workloads on MS Azure, these are six areas where you can—and should— implement changes to realise significant savings using Azure’s cost-optimization tool, which comes integrated into Azure. It is also a cache for data collection and analysis. There are also other tools that Azure offers to help with your cost optimization and planning, for instance: Azure Advisor, Cloudyn, Azure Budgets, Cost Analysis and Cost Calculator. You can use these tools to monitor resource usage and spending and run comparisons with other cloud environments. The following six best practices have proven to help organizations better leverage their existing resources on Azure and optimize costs. Try them, you ha...

Are You spending more on your AWS Cloud than you Should?

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The entire premise of cloud computing is based on cost savings; opex over capex, cost of installing and upgrading hardware, software, security, and resources and training. But a number of businesses are finding their cloud costs overshooting budgets despite following   recommended   AWS best practices, viz: rightsizing, scheduling, and buying Reserved Instances. Though these remain excellent means of cloud cost-optimization, they can be supplemented by others that often go overlooked but can help you cut down your costs substantially. Try these approaches to further optimize your cloud costs. Pick the latest instances AWS routinely releases new-generation instances that offer improved performance and greater functionality than their earlier model. Shifting to these, or alternatively downsizing instances with low utilization metrics, can help you benefit from cost savings while enjoying the same, or higher, performance levels. Match  storage tiers to your needs Organizatio...

Three Steps to assess Your Cloud Migration Costs

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From ‘ should I move to the cloud ’   the question on everyone’s mind now is how  best to move to the cloud ’. The advantages that cloud computing provides in terms of flexibility, availability, usability, and cost savings cannot be gainsaid. But realizing these benefits is not so straightforward. Failing to calculate the costs associated with your migration can actually end up making the move cost-prohibitive. This is compounded by the array of challenges you must face, such as: Ensuring the security of data and applications Meeting governance compliance standards Converting mindsets used to the familiarity of on-premises infra to in-the-cloud Staying updated with your hardware and software, and emerging technologies Managing the costs of maintaining infrastructure and operations Failure to attend to factors pre-emptively, beginning with incorrect/incomplete assessments is sure to render your cloud infrastructure unnecessarily complex, expensive, inefficient, and even comprom...