Katy Stalcup is the marketing manager for ParkMyCloud.
by Katy Stalcup - There are three advantages of using public cloud: cloud elasticity, agility, and cost reduction. However – most public cloud users…
by Katy Stalcup - Topping the list of cloud computing trends 2021 is…drumroll please…cloud optimization! This is according to data collected by the annual…
by Katy Stalcup - Overprovisioning and leaving cloud resources on are two enormous sources of wasted spend. Wasted spend drags down IT budgets –…
by Katy Stalcup - Microsoft Azure recently announced an addition designed to help with Azure chargeback: cost allocation, now in preview in Azure Cost…
by Katy Stalcup - There’s a lot of talk about multi-cloud architecture – and apparently, a lot of disagreement about whether there is actually…
by Katy Stalcup - AWS Reserved Instance discounts can be confusing and opaque. We talk to AWS customers who don’t know what instances their…
by Katy Stalcup - Analysts are reporting that IT budget cuts are expected to continue, dropping 5-8% this year overall. That puts IT departments…
by Katy Stalcup - Microsoft Azure growth has long held the silver medal in public cloud. As of Q1 2020, Azure held 17% of…
by Katy Stalcup - Last week, AWS announced the general release of AWS Cost Categories. Anyone involved in managing AWS costs within your organization…
by Katy Stalcup - If you use AWS, it’s likely you’ll use or at least run across Amazon Redshift – so make sure you…
by Katy Stalcup - AWS offers several EBS volume types that you can use for your storage needs. Here’s a quick overview of what…
by Katy Stalcup - More than 90% of organizations will use public cloud services this year, fueled by record cloud computing growth. In fact,…
by Katy Stalcup - If you’re in engineering or development, communicating about cloud infrastructure and other software development costs with your finance department is…
by Katy Stalcup - It’s important for cloud customers to understand cloud economics. Cloud costs are dynamic – and hopefully, optimized. However, that’s not…
by Kane Pepi - The AWS reserved instance (AWS RI) offerings got a recent upgrade with the release of a “queue” function. This means…
by Connor Brooke - When evaluating public cloud providers, whether to choose the best for your environment or simply to try to decipher the…
by Jay Leonard - A recent conversation I had with Turbonomic founder and president Shmuel Kliger highlighted the importance of abstraction layers. Shmuel told…
by Connor Brooke - On our first day as Turbonomic employees, our team had some great discussions with CTO Charles Crouchman about Turbonomic, ParkMyCloud,…
by Connor Brooke - If you’re at all familiar with cloud computing, you know Amazon Web Services is a giant – but just how…
by Connor Brooke - Google Cloud recently released a new pricing option: Google Cloud capacity reservations. This new option intended for users with anticipated…
by Jay Leonard - AWS optimization might be on your mind if you saw last week’s headlines that Lyft has committed to spend $300…
by Jay Leonard - There’s no doubt that cloud container services adoption is on the rise. A recent survey found that more than 80%…
by Kane Pepi - If you ask a group of CIOs or analysts for a list of priorities for companies adopting cloud infrastructure, there’s…
by Connor Brooke - It’s that time of year: new gym memberships, fresh diet goals, and plans to reform… cloud spending? If you’re at…
by Connor Brooke - When you create a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure, you are required to assign it to an Azure Resource Group.…
by Connor Brooke - Lately, we’ve been thinking about cloud computing jobs and titles we’ve been seeing in the space. One of the great…
by Jay Leonard - The AWS free tier is a great way to get started using Amazon Web Services — it can be a…
by Kane Pepi - Among the many announcements made at Google Cloud Next last week was a new option for Google Cloud discounts: resource-based…
by Connor Brooke - AWS offers a range of EC2 instance types optimized for various purposes. It’s great that they provide so much variety,…
by Kane Pepi - Whether you’re just getting started on public cloud, or you’ve gotten a bill that blew your budget out of the…
by Jay Leonard - Today I’d like to tell you a story* about how one company learned to control cloud costs. Let me introduce…
by Connor Brooke - Gartner recently reported that by 2020, the “cloud shift” will affect more than $1 trillion in IT spending. The shift…
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