Event: Advancing towards the Cloud, Edge, and IoT Continuum: Insights and Impacts

This event offers a unique opportunity to gain valuable insights into the ongoing efforts of the EUCEI initiative. Attendees will have the chance to delve into the preliminary results and impacts generated by UNLOCK-CEI and the various task forces within the EUCEI initiative.
Good read: A comeback for private clouds

Enterprises facing high cloud costs are taking a more balanced look at where workloads should reside and considering repatriation to a cloud in their own data center or fully managed on Edge locations.
Good read: WTF Is a Vector Database: A Beginner’s Guide!

In the age of burgeoning data complexity and high-dimensional information, traditional databases often fall short when it comes to efficiently handling and extracting meaning from intricate datasets. Enter vector databases, a technological innovation that has emerged as a solution to the challenges posed by the ever-expanding landscape of data.
Good read: How Cloud FinOps Aim To Rein In Cloud Spending

Migrating to the cloud has long been seen as a way for organizations to save money. The whole point of implementing this practice, after all, is to reduce operational costs. But these promised savings from migrating workloads to the cloud have failed to appear. In fact, many face the opposite problem: surging costs.
The sovereign cloud, the only way to comply with legislation

Protection of sensitive data has already been important in Europe but has become more important recently. In many sectors, like banking, insurance and healthcare, it has become a top priority. But also public sectors face organizational challenges to be able to comply with the latest legal regulations when it comes to the use of cloud technology.
Employee Spotlight: Johanne Burton

Johanne tells a little about herself and her role at whitesky.cloud.
Good read: Companies Put AI to Work Outside the Cloud, Trimming Costs

Companies have started leveraging advances in networking, algorithms and edge computing to run artificial-intelligence workloads outside of data centers and closer to where applications are being put to use.
Declining Net Revenue Retention (NRR) for Saas companies

SaaS companies overall rely on two main sources of growth and profitability, signing up new customers and upselling to existing customers. It seems this is slowly coming to a halt, like the Ocean Circulation. Endangering SaaS providers and their customers.
Good read: Private SaaS, a New Paradigm

Private SaaS is a variation of SaaS where the provider runs the software within the customer’s network but takes responsibility for managing and securing it.
Typical cost allocations for SaaS

The costs for a SaaS company using cloud providers can vary widely based on factors such as the size of the company, the complexity of the application, the level of usage, and the specific services and resources needed. Below is a general breakdown of the types of costs when providing SaaS.