Shared Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs) have been a common workaround for reducing EC2 costs, but their value has always been limited. On average, these shared pools deliver only 25% savings on On-Demand costs—far below the 60% savings achievable with automated reservation tools. For IT and DevOps teams, the trade-offs include added complexity, […]
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The Future of Cybersecurity: Shlomo Kramer’s Bold Predictions for the SASE Era What does the next decade of cybersecurity hold? Few can answer that better than Shlomo Kramer—co-founder of Check Point and Imperva, and founder & CEO of Cato Networks. In a candid conversation on the CloudNext podcast, Shlomo shared bold predictions and actionable strategies for navigating the challenges and opportunities ahead. From the rise of SASE […]
4th December, 2024 -
Three Ways CISOs Can Combat Emerging Threats in 2025 73% of CISOs fear a material cyberattack in the next 12 months, with over three-quarters convinced AI is advancing too quickly for existing methods to combat it. But what can CISOs do to prepare for the coming wave – and access the resources they need to deal with this evolving threat landscape? To find out, […]
11th November, 2024 -
How Optimizing Kafka Can Save Costs of the Whole System Kafka is no longer exclusively the domain of high-velocity Big Data use cases. Today, it is utilized on by workloads and companies of all sizes, supporting asynchronous communication between even small groups of microservices. But this expanded usage has led to problems with cost creep that threaten many companies’ bottom lines. And due to the […]
29th September, 2024 -
Migrating Volumez RedHat VMs into Amazon Linux 2 for higher effective discounts rate of Saving Plan A cloud data infrastructure company relied on extensive use of multiple instance types to test its products. But this made it difficult to optimize costs – a fact which had begun to impact their ability to scale the business. The GlobalDots team helped the company identify and implement a new infrastructure configuration that both saved […]
19th September, 2024 -
How Yuki Achieved SOC 2 Compliance 6x Faster Overview A fast-growing Snowflake optimization platform was missing out on customers because they didn’t have the right data security compliance. Through multiple consultations and extensive vendor-testing, the GlobalDots team selected a solution to provide both tech and human support, helping the company achieve SOC 2 compliance within just 3 months – and win new customers […]
16th September, 2024 -
Agile Content partners with GlobalDots to revolutionize CDN management ahead of IBC 2024 New partnership between Agile Content and GlobalDots promises to introduce automated multi-CDN solutions, optimizing content delivery and easing provider management for broadcasters worldwide. Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 9th, 2024 – Agile Content, a leading provider of digital TV and video distribution solutions, proudly announces its strategic partnership with GlobalDots, a global leader in cloud performance optimization and […]
12th September, 2024 -
How E-commerce TrustMeUp Achieved 40% Faster Delivery and 25% Bandwidth Savings with GlobalDots & CloudFront A popular e-commerce platform was growing fast, but that growth created challenges. With a poorly optimized cloud setup, the company faced content quality problems, as well as ongoing security issues. The only way to solve the problem was to optimize their CloudFront distribution – leading them to work with GlobalDots’ innovation experts. Using the solution […]
11th September, 2024 -
How to Defeat Bad Bots in 2024 (and Why It’s Still So Hard) Introduction Bots today outnumber human users in eCommerce sites: From 15% in 2017, to 30% in 2019, to 64% in 2021. Some extreme cases we’ve witnessed peaked in 90-99.8% bot traffic. But perhaps the more concerning bit is the traffic share of bad bots: an approximate 39% of all internet traffic in 2021. Hackers are […]
13th June, 2024 -
EBS-Optimized Instances: A Guide to Cut Costs and Maintain Performance A recent study of over 100 enterprises found more than 15% of AWS cloud bills comes from Elastic Block Store (EBS). But what can you do to cut those costs without impacting performance? The key is to select EBS-optimized instances. With the right combination of EBS-optimized instances and EBS volumes, companies consistently maintain at least […]
19th May, 2024 -
Cut Big Data Costs by 23%: 7 Key Practices In this webinar, we reveal a solution that cuts big data costs by 23% and enhances system efficiency - without changing a single line of code. We’ll also explore 7 key practices that will free your engineers to process and analyze data at the pace and scale they need - and ensure they never lose control of the process.
15th April, 2024 -
Cloud Cost Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Reduce Cloud Spend The move to the cloud has enabled tech leaders to modernize their infrastructure and improve application availability, scalability, and performance.
31st March, 2024 -
Project FOCUS: A New Age of FinOps Visibility It’s easy for managers and team leaders to get caught up in the cultural scrum of FinOps. Hobbling many FinOps projects, however, is a lack of on-the-ground support for the DevOps teams that are having to drive this widespread change – this is how all too many FinOps projects become abandoned on the meeting room […]
27th March, 2024