On this episode of Densify Talks, Hitesh and Andrew discuss the evolution of the cloud and the best practices that have emerged in resource optimization. Having been involved in cloud from the start, Hitesh shares some of the “aha” moments he had along the way, including how to effectively engage engineering teams, the importance of …
In this episode, AJ and Andrew talk about innovative ways to gamify the engagement with line of business application owners to drive cloud optimization. The number one challenge most FinOps programs have is getting engineers to take action on optimization. Liberty Mutual’s “Optimization Bingo” is a refreshing take on the problem. About our guest: Angela …
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Welcome to Densify Talks! We’re excited to launch this new podcast! Densify Talks is a podcast hosted by myself, Andrew Hillier, Co-Founder and CTO of Densify, a cloud optimization software company. The podcast is focused on interviews with IT and technical leaders and innovators who have experience in delivering cloud and Kubernetes-based infrastructure within large …
Intel Cloud Optimizer + Intel Optimization Hub Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) offer an ever-expanding array of instance types, ensuring that for any given workload there exists the perfect hosting option that matches the exact needs of that app or business service. But with this expansion comes an ever-increasing challenge to match the workloads to the …
Is Your Cloud Truly Elastic or Just Expensive? A lot of people think that using the cloud makes you elastic, but cloud really only gives you the potential to be elastic. If your apps aren’t elastic, and your cloud usage doesn’t flex up and down based on activity levels, then it’s really just expensive. The …
Advantages of Graviton Processor Instances for Your Workloads Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Graviton2 processor-based instances utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores. AWS Graviton2 processors deliver a significant leap in performance and capabilities over the first-generation AWS Graviton processor (A1 series) instances. Amazon boasts that these new instances provide up to a …
What is Cloud Scaling? In cloud computing, scaling is the process of adding or removing compute, storage, and network services to meet the demands a workload makes for resources in order to maintain availability and performance as utilization increases. Scaling generally refers to adding or reducing the number of active servers (instances) being leveraged against …
Cloud Computing brings New Benefits & Challenges to Infrastructure Management Cloud computing has fundamentally changed the way enterprises think about information technology infrastructure. A decade ago, IT professionals would make projections about the number and types of servers they would need for the next several months to a year. In some cases, they’d plan for …
On-Premises Versus Public Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing complements on-premises computing. On-premises refers to enterprise infrastructure that iss completely managed in a company’s data center or in a third-party data center. An enterprise is free to choose the hardware and software stack to run on their infrastructure. They’re also responsible for …
It’s officially the second week of December and AWS re:Invent 2019 has come and gone leaving behind a wealth of announcements and information for the industry to process. With over 60,000 attendees it’s easy to see how the conference can be overwhelming. Densify was privileged to be in attendance this year as both attendees and …
