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How companies today gain complete cloud transparency via application inventory Application Inventory for IT infrastructure Transparency Taking an inventory of applications can help business leaders gain complete transparency into their IT infrastructures. When organizations take the time to note how their IT infrastructure relates to each business application they enhance their IT professionals’ ability to manage technology directly in line with the business’s needs. From conducting [...]

Overview of Cloud Billing Concepts: What does a cloud bill usually consist of? What is a cloud bill? A cloud bill is a document that shows how much your business spends on cloud services. Think of it as a grocery store receipt which consists of a list and prices for each item. It's critical to be able to decipher the specifics of your cloud bill in [...]

Hystax is Excited to Announce New Partnerships Hystax today announced new collaborative agreements that key companies will use to build more solid IT environments. Hystax will contribute to the development of their IT services by offering partner-centric cloud migration, disaster recovery and multi-cloud cost governance solutions. Hystax’s new partnerships are with well established and actively developing companies, including The Abstract Hub, Brontobyte Cloud, EasyDataHost and Netwitz. “Embracing [...]

Explore key findings and uncovered insights on hybrid cloud management Hybrid cloud is a foundation of modern IT infrastructure and it’s becoming mainstream in terms of efficiency, security and scalability. Nevertheless, companies are struggling with a wide range of challenges occurring after the implementation of hybrid cloud infrastructure. Unpredicted cloud bills, idle and underutilized resources are main topics of conversation for the majority of IT departments. [...]

7 steps to reducing your TCO and optimizing your cloud bills A large percentage of companies today are spending too much on compute resources and storage. For example, capital charges with excess capability in on-prem data centers, to help meet increasing demand. TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) is the cost of a service or product, in addition to any running charges. The total cost covers [...]

Mitigating Potential Cyberattacks with Disaster Recovery Ransomware attacks are unfortunately very commonplace and organizations of all sizes and stature may be at risk. These attacks involve taking control of an enterprise’s entire computer network. They are an omnipresent and increasingly growing problem, spanning a plethora of industries. With the right knowledge and systems in place, such as disaster recovery solutions, cyberattacks can be effectively mitigated, enabling companies [...]

Hystax Acura Is Now Available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace Accelerating the speed of business growth across all industries is made much more simple by utilizing MS Azure, an industry-leading public cloud computing platform. Among the most recent innovations on Azure, is that Hystax has recently been made available through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This enables companies to locate Hystax Acura software and deploy it with just [...]

Hystax launches OptScale, an innovative cloud platform whose mission is to ensure full cloud budget transparency and cost governance Hystax, a disruptive business continuity, disaster recovery and cloud migration company, announced a limited public beta of an innovative cloud platform that aims to provide complete cloud budget transparency and cost governance in a single pane of glass. Over the past few years, Hystax’s engineers have been [...]

Migration from Private to Public Clouds: Switching from CapEx to OpEx Companies typically invest in IT services with the desired goals of driving innovation, gaining competitive advantage and growing with strong infrastructure in place. While IT departments and the big infrastructure investments they’re responsible for are essential to deliver on these goals, they’ve also garnered a reputation for being costly line items which can often drain a [...]

Ways to significantly reduce IT budget and optimize cloud costs Top considerations for IT budget optimization and cost reduction potential Many business owners and chief technical officers believe that the IT piece of their organization is too important to even think about decreasing the budget. Indeed, IT is a significant expense item of almost any company that relies on tech to some extent, however l, there [...]