Reducing cloud storage costs: what you need to know

Digital transformation has been fast-tracked by the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning that many businesses now find themselves in a predominantly online environment. With the proliferation of new technologies that enable agility and flexibility, a large number of businesses have been left wondering how they can reap the benefits of a more online world without racking up exorbitant costs.  Taking this into …

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“Staying on the ball in the payroll game” – How businesses can keep costs down and reduce risk

Payroll is a necessity for organizations. If a business doesn’t pay its staff accurately or on time, employees will quickly become disaffected. It is, however, a technical function and, as such,  it requires specialist expertise. Often, organizations don’t want that expertise in-house. They would rather have an external specialist to deliver it for them.    When running a company, time …

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Kubernetes costs are spiraling out of control

The cost of running Kubernetes is spiraling out of control, a new report from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNFC) suggests. The paper claims that 68 percent of businesses have experienced a rise in Kubernetes costs over the past year. Among those businesses, half have had to pay up to 20 percent more. The increase in costs “isn’t in itself …

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Majority of firms cannot detect rises in cloud costs

Most organizations have no idea how much money they are spending on cloud services, a new report from autonomous monitoring company Anodot suggests. As reported by Venturebeat, research suggests that four in five (80 percent) organizations cannot detect spikes in cloud costs immediately. More than a quarter said it can take months to notice a significant increase in how much …

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Reducing the hidden costs and mitigating security risks of third-party contractors

Organizations are constantly on the lookout for new ways to stay one step ahead of the competition by increasing their speed of innovation and improving overall customer satisfaction.  Often that means they will enlist third parties to both augment their services and capabilities in an effort to gain a competitive advantage and improve profitability as well as gain skill sets. …

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