Tag Archives: Cloud Computing

Cleaning Up the Cloud

Posted on October 3, 2025 by way0utwest

Recently, I got a bill from Azure. That’s not an unusual thing for many of you, but for me it was a surprise because it said I was late paying. I’ve had a number of services running, and I thought … Continue reading →

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The Inefficiencies of Kubernetes

Posted on March 28, 2025 by way0utwest

A report of cloud Kubernetes usage shows that these resources are being under-utiliized, over-provisioned, and costing more than necessary for many organizations. From the previous year, average CPU declined from 13% to 10%, and memory is used at only around … Continue reading →

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The Managed Cloud Database Options

Posted on January 15, 2025 by way0utwest

There are many, many choices for cloud database services these days. I would hope everyone is aware of the various IaaS options in public clouds with EC2, Azure VMs, GCP Compute Engine, and others. These are often the easiest way … Continue reading →

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The Rise of Data Centers

Posted on January 6, 2025 by way0utwest

For the last few years, we’ve seen no shortage of cloud migration stories and felt pressure from management who wanted to migrate our systems to the cloud. It seems that almost everyone I speak to has a story of having … Continue reading →

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