Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – April 2022

By Dustin Ward

Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management and Billing comes in. We’re always…

Azure Purview is now Microsoft Purview

By Dustin Ward

In September of 2021, we announced the highly anticipated general availability of Azure Purview—a cloud-native data governance solution to enable organizations of all sizes to manage and govern their on-premises, multicloud, and software as a service (SaaS) data. Since Azure Purview was brought onto the market, thousands of organizations including London Heathrow Airport, Grundfos, and…

Unlock cloud savings on the fly with autoscale on Azure

By Dustin Ward

Unused cloud resources can put an unnecessary drain on your computing budget, and unlike legacy on-premises architectures, there is no need to over-provision compute resources for times of heavy usage. Autoscaling is one of the value levers that can help unlock cost savings for your Azure workloads by automatically scaling up and down the resources…

Optimize your cloud investment with Azure Reservations

By Dustin Ward

Continuous cost optimization can take place at all stages of an Azure workload’s lifecycle, but your Azure subscription provides a very effective benefit to further optimize your investment when you are ready to deploy that workload. For cloud workloads with consistent resource usage, you can buy reserved instances at a significant discount and reduce your…