Today, we're going to look at a real-world case study that demonstrates how to roll out smarter resourcing for cloud-based apps and the impact this has on solving key challenges like cultural change and embracing automation.

Is your company looking for ways to work smarter in the ever-changing world? For many businesses, the cloud offers the solutions they’re looking for.

An Azure Resource Group is a required grouping for all your Azure VMs. In this post, we’ll look into what this group structure actually means – and how you can use it for better governance and resource management for your infrastructure.

Cloud application optimization is beyond human scale. Allow me to explain.

In my role, I have the privilege of meeting and talking to multiple enterprise customers and prospects every day, discussing their challenges and pains related to the management and control (or lack of) of their cloud applications’ performance and cost.

The number one challenge I hear is around cloud cost optimization. Regardless of whether they are new to public cloud or so-called "Cloud Veterans," almost every organization admits that their cloud bills are beyond what they projected and that their attempts to optimize their cloud based applications did not achieve the desired results.

The overwhelming complexity of multicloud has created well-known challenges for organizations as they implement new technologies. Despite these obstacles, the pressure to deliver seamless customer experiences has never been higher. And while assuring application performance is top of mind for all IT and business leaders, organizations don’t have an unlimited budget to do so. Application performance must be managed economically, which is why many organizations are looking to third-party platforms to assist them with managing trade-offs between performance, cost, and compliance.

What is the right cloud migration strategy for your business?

Cloud migration is simply the process of moving applications from the current environment to the Cloud. Traditionally, companies have pursued a cloud migration strategy of moving on-premises VMs to the Cloud. However, recently, there is a rise in Cloud to Cloud migration among customers that want to avoid vendor lock-in and adopt a multi-cloud strategy.

Whether you are just testing the waters or well-versed in Cloud computing, Cloud migration is a core process in the global digital transformation that's been accelerated due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to IDC, “COVID-19 accelerated digitization as organizations were forced to innovate rapidly in response to a combination of regulations (e.g., working from home) and a rapidly changing business environment.” (Source: IDC Worldwide Whole Cloud Forecast, 2020-2024. Oct 2020, Doc #US46020420)

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Super Clusters!

One of the most valuable capabilities that organizations enjoy with Turbonomic is the ability to create what we call “super clusters”. A super cluster is a virtual resource pool comprised of physical clusters in your environment.

Welcome to the fourth article in our "Mastering Cloud Cost Optimization" series. I’m joining you from ParkMyCloud, a Turbonomic company that focuses on cloud cost optimization – in particular, scheduled workload suspension, which is what we’ll focus on in this article.

Welcome to the third article in our "Mastering Cloud Cost Optimization" series. This series was designed to help cloud users maximize the value of the cloud by sharing best practices and expert knowledge based on our experience. In this article, we will focus on leveraging the right cost model for your cloud workloads. 

Welcome to the second article of Turbonomic’s new blog series, ‘Mastering Cloud Cost Optimization.’