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Good read: Zombie Resources Eat up Your Cloud Budget

Relying on manual checks for proper infrastructure allocation and utilization adds to the burden of wasted resources and expenses for companies large and small.

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.

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: 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: 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.