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DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

CIO

This strategy alone — achieved with the DIY approach — was responsible for saving $300,000 when his team dug into expenses surrounding Google Cloud Platform log storage, resulting in his team moving the logs to a lower tier of cloud storage and rightsizing the data they retain to adhere to retention requirements.

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A history of tech adaptation for today’s changing business needs

CIO

This project aims to enable the company to transform its insight delivery by using a cloud-enabled infrastructure and proprietary reporting engine, built on open standards. The initiative follows agile methodologies to offer faster and better results to its clients.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO

Cloud software engineer Cloud software engineers are tasked with developing and maintaining software applications that run on cloud platforms, ensuring they are built to be scalable, reliable, and agile. Role growth: 19% of companies have added cloud software engineer roles as part of their cloud investments.

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UC Riverside turns to cloud to supercharge scientific research

CIO

To that end, University of California, Riverside has launched an ambitious cloud transformation to shift from a small on-premises data center to an advanced research platform powered by Google Cloud Platform and its various service offerings. We identified Google as being well aligned with us strategically,” says Gunkel.

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Xebia

The data engineer is also expected to create agile data architectures that evolve as new trends emerge. Understand the cultural foundations of Agile, DevOps, and DataOps. This means knowing the trade-offs with design patterns, technologies, and tools in source systems, ingestion, storage, transformation, and serving data.

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What is Cloud Computing? Everything You Need to Know – Architecture, Benefits & Much More

Openxcell

Just a few of the existing cloud services include servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and business intelligence. Cloud computing definition. Cloud computing – How does it work? The cost of cloud storage varies depending on your needs. For more storage, you must pay a price.

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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

The hardware layer includes everything you can touch — servers, data centers, storage devices, and personal computers. To fill the senior or architect role, a candidate must have at least five years of background in a busy production environment and get the hang of building and deploying both physical and cloud infrastructures.