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Warning: Cloud Sprawl Causing Business Inefficiencies!

Shantha Kumari

If your IT Managers are losing sleep over the widespread use of a wide variety of unsanctioned cloud services, then you are facing the inevitable Cloud Sprawl situation.

Any enterprise currently uses the Cloud in some capacity for its corporate use. The cloud solutions and services offer accessibility, security, availability, and productivity, that makes it the ideal platform.

The flipside of this innovation is that they are losing control over their data assets. Unrestricted and uncontrolled access, can compromise on the integrity and security of their corporate data. Using unauthorized cloud services can lead to business inefficiencies in the long run.

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Dealing with Cloud Outages – Live, Learn, Fix & Start Over!

Shantha Kumari

The cloud explosion has resulted in business in going overboard with moving their applications to the cloud. The cost effective, easy and manageable cloud services is the impetus required to switch to different cloud service providers.

As cloud services change the IT landscape, the risk of a cloud outage is keeping businesses from fully adopting the cloud. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google and other cloud service providers have faced many times outages of their cloud services.

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10 Ways to Trim Your Cloud Computing Costs

Shantha Kumari

Cloud computing can make your business run smoothly, free from costly data centers and servers; but it also adds additional IT costs. Keeping track of your monthly cloud computing bills isn’t easy. The typical bill is complex and made up of dozens of different factors, such as CPU core, storage units, RAM size and data transfers.

To keep your cloud spending whether in Azure or Amazon cloud, under control, you need a cost optimization plan. There are many ways an organization can optimize cloud, in terms of performance and cost. You need to strike a balance between them; shed any unnecessary applications; know where your users are; and negotiate rather than accept published cloud prices.

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