Good read: How SaaS architecture impacts pricing and profitability
A poorly designed SaaS architecture creates limitations in setting the pricing strategy for the offerings and impacts new customer acquisition. Conversely, a good architecture sets the appropriate pricing model and accommodates special architecture-design requirements, while enabling scalability and customizability.
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.
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.
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.
Good read: What to do during a heatwave in the data centre (Dutch)
Summer may be far away at home, but other parts of Europe were hit by extreme temperatures. As have parts of Asia and North America. Data centre service provider Vertiv shares seven pieces of advice for dealing with extreme heat in data centres.
Good read: Deutsche Telekom adds Helium network to IoT platform
The collaboration will allow users to easily and more flexibly onboard and manage smart IoT devices on the Helium Network.
Good read: Strengthening security in a multi-SaaS cloud environment
Managing security across multiple SaaS cloud deployments is becoming more challenging as the number of zero-day and ransomware attacks continues to rise. In fact, recent research reveals that a staggering 76% of organizations fell victim to a ransomware attack in the past year.
Good read: KWOK (Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet)
KWOK is a toolkit that enables setting up a cluster of thousands of Nodes in seconds. Under the scene, all Nodes are simulated to behave like real ones, so the overall approach employs a pretty low resource footprint that you can easily play around on your laptop.
