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Introduction In today’s digitally connected world, cybersecurity stands as a cornerstone of business protection. CrowdStrike, a prominent player in the cybersecurity arena, offers cutting-edge solutions to safeguard your organization’s digital assets. While ensuring the safety of your data and systems is paramount, it’s equally important to explore ways to optimize costs. In this blog, we uncover the top five strategies to save on CrowdStrike without compromising on the effectiveness of your cybersecurity measures. 1. Right-Size Your Subscription:  CrowdStrike provides a range of subscription tiers to cater to different organizational needs. To maximize your savings, assess your requirements accurately. Don’t pay for features you won’t fully utilize. Instead, opt for a subscription level that precisely aligns with your security goals and the scale of your operations. This strategic alignment ensures you receive the protection you need without overspending. 2. Embrace Cloud-Native ...

Introduction: As businesses increasingly move their operations and services to the cloud, they encounter a significant challenge known as data gravity. Data gravity refers to the concept that as data accumulates and grows, it becomes more difficult and time-consuming to move that data to different locations or cloud platforms. This issue can hinder scalability, data access, and overall cloud performance. However, cloud providers are well aware of this challenge and have devised innovative solutions to address it. In this article, we will explore the top five ways cloud providers can solve the challenge of data gravity. Edge Computing and Distributed Data Centers: Edge computing has emerged as a powerful solution to overcome the challenges of data gravity. By placing computing resources closer to the location where data is generated, businesses can significantly reduce data transfer latency and improve overall performance. Cloud providers are increasingly establishing distributed data ...

  Introduction:  Datadog is a leading cloud monitoring and analytics platform that offers a wide range of features to help businesses gain insights into their applications, infrastructure, and user behavior. While Datadog provides immense value, it’s crucial to optimize your usage to avoid unnecessary costs. In this blog post, we’ll explore the top 5 ways to save on Datadog while ensuring that you’re making the most of its powerful capabilities. Fine-tune your monitoring and alerting:  One of the key  benefits of Datadog  is its ability to monitor various aspects of your infrastructure and applications. However, monitoring everything without careful consideration can lead to inflated costs. Analyze your monitoring needs and focus on the critical metrics that truly impact your business. By fine-tuning your monitoring and alerting settings, you can reduce unnecessary data collection and only receive alerts for essential events, resulting in cost savings. Optimize ...

 Dive into our insightful blog post on the 2023 forecast , where we explore emerging trends and shed light on what lies ahead. Gain valuable insights into the ever-evolving landscape of technology, business, and innovation. Join us as we navigate the path to success in a future that promises a little less uncertainty. Stay informed with NetNetWeb Blog .

  This is part 1 of an ongoing series we call  ‘Debunking Microsoft’  where we address the ongoing disinformation, half-truths, and mysticism surrounding its own products as it relates to Customer licensing, usage, contracts, terms, pricing, and much more. In part one, we address what we frequently hear from clients; that Microsoft has told them regarding usage of their own licenses in a cloud other than Microsoft's.....words to the effect of “You can’t use your existing Microsoft licenses on non-Microsoft clouds such as Amazon or Google.” Well, that’s not true and Microsoft knows it. This is just one case of Microsoft’s constant and consistent questionable behavior. It’s clearly been approved from the highest levels within Microsoft, intentionally designed to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the minds of customers, while also carefully skirting the line of anti-competitive behavior that would put them in a legal spotlight around potential abuse of their monopoly ma...

  Introduction Increasingly, we are seeing NetSuite encroach into the enterprise space. What was once thought of as a web-based mini-ERP for SMBs is now a serious platform contender for major organizations.  NetSuite Customers Companies such as Accenture, Audi, Bearing Point, The Boston Globe, Ceridian, Cornerstone, Kronos, Nestlé, Siemens, SoftwareAG, Solar Winds, T-Mobile, Tableau, and Wells Fargo all use NetSuite. NetSuite claims to be the #1 Cloud-based ERP, offering a unified suite of web-based applications that encompasses HR, ERP, CRM, SCM, PSA, eCommerce, Marketing Automation, and Financials, among other areas. As a cloud-native platform, NetSuite has been built from the ground up with an integrated suite of applications that seeks to automate core processes and provide real-time insights into operational and financial performance, enabling faster and better decisions resulting in improved business performance. The biggest complaint we hear from NetSuite customers is t...

  A rigorous assessment of the business objectives and a well-defined migration plan are critical to realize the benefits of moving IT activities from your legacy on-premises infrastructure to a public cloud provider.   Any technical gap or delay in cloud migration will erode the economics and benefits of the cloud with unexpected expenses and performance issues. for Read more  click here .

  No question Oracle is one of the most dominant and financially successful tech companies in the world. In fact, almost everyone reading this probably directly or indirectly owns a small part of Oracle in their investment portfolio.  However, through sales practices, audit actions, acquisitions and never-ending lawsuits, Oracle seems to be relying increasingly on legal tactics and maneuvers to shut down competition and show growth to Wall Street, rather than be a disruptive innovator. Some would say that Oracle’s core competency now is litigation, not innovation.   for Read more  click here

  As we are well into calendar Q4, several tech companies have announced layoffs and cutbacks as they prepare to weather inflation and the impending recession storm.  Despite all the great news coming out of Oracle from their Q1 2023 report (announced September 12, 2022), they have been laying off employees throughout the course of 2022 on the heels of their Cerner acquisition in their quest to cut $1B in cost in the name of synergy.  Somewhat surprising to us; however, is that they are also laying off from their OCI group (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure).  Given their claims of robust cloud growth that they talk about to Wall Street in their Q1 results, this is surprising.  Or is it?   Anyone who has done a deal with Oracle in the past 5 years knows that cloud is the answer to almost every question.  If you listen to Wall Street, Oracle’s cloud has been experiencing outsized growth.  While Oracle’s cloud offerings have come a long way, the level of ...

  At the forefront of a global recession, where business forecasts are softening, but input costs continue to increase, clients are thinking about ways they can lower the burden without damaging their businesses and are turning again towards IT cost reductions as the preferred strategy as cost savings often come with no diminution of business value. Read our recent article, “ The #1 Thing CEOs Can Do to Prepare for the Global Recession ” for more context. Increasingly, in the pursuit of IT Cost Savings, clients are looking for professional assistance to figure out how best to help them save. Our industry sub-segment of IT Cost Reduction specialists, filled with sourcing advisors, process procurement companies, consultants, resellers, analysts, legal firms, software tools companies, and other types of organizations remains nascent and not well defined. Having been doing this for 20 years (since 2002), negotiating well over $1 Trillion worth of contracts, and having helped clients ex...

  We get it. You've been deluged with the advertisements on television and social media from the major wireless carriers touting their 5G roll out, with hyperbolic comparisons touting that ‘their network’ is more available and robust than the competition. Mobile phone manufacturers are pushing the availability of their devices on 5G and how life changing it will be. Articles abound from all the business forums on IoT and 5G, and what a seismic shift it will be. 5G is also propelling this notion of   Industry 4.0 , and how it will accelerate that process. All this promise is, well, promising. But in the real world of managing a business, growing revenue, and streamlining operations – what does it all mean for your Digital Strategy and Transformation? How does it change the relationship between you and your telecom suppliers? How will it change the nature of your customer relationships? And how do we execute on the promise of 5G/IoT without wasting millions and stepping on land ...

  It’s a now well-known axiom that there is opportunity in chaos.  From our vantage point, technology suppliers are joining in the spirit of that theme to accelerate price increases which are then passed along to their customers.  Price gouging it would seem is no longer the domain of consumer goods as we suspect it’s also being employed in high tech.  If you have been involved recently in a renewal, software audit, M&A activity, or any other supplier intensive negotiation, some of these price increase ‘excuses’ may sound familiar:    Inflation   Energy costs   Interest rates   Labor supply   Economic downturn   War in Ukraine   Rising US dollar value   CPI/Innovation Index   We’ve just been sued by SEC for fraud/bribing…again ( maybe that’s just Oracle )   The list could go on but serves as a theme for excuses on why your discounts are being slashed and prices are going up.  But this begs the question, ...

  A rigorous assessment of the business objectives and a well-defined migration plan are critical to realize the benefits of moving IT activities from your legacy on-premises infrastructure to a public cloud provider.  Any technical gap or delay in cloud migration will erode the economics and benefits of the cloud with unexpected expenses and performance issues.    To that point, a recent survey by SunGard Availability Services uncovered the following:   Over 45% of IT decision-makers indicate they struggle to forecast and understand the costs associated with cloud migration.   40% of respondents cited they ‘lack understanding of cloud architecture dependencies and security compliance issues.’   45% of enterprises cited a gap of experienced internal resources to plan and execute the migration.   Considering the above, it is not surprising cloud waste will exceed $60B USD in 2023 ( infographic on cloud waste ).   Cloud Benefits   The scal...