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Key takeways The price of new hardware is only one part of the total cost of a technology refreshes. Organizations should consider facility upgrade expenses and opportunity costs of missed investments.  Choosing colocation services enables organizations to capitalize on next-generation hardware while avoiding the high costs of facility upgrades.   When it’s time to refresh infrastructure, executive teams often focus primarily on the hardware. They …

Key takeaway Answering “Where does the cardholder data live?” shouldn’t require a diagnostic action. Fintechs need to answer this cleanly to avoid overrunning their budget.  A vendor’s PCI Attestation of Compliance (AoC) only covers PCI DSS Requirement 9; the others are the customer organization’s responsibility.  Scope reduction is the simplest way to lower compliance costs. Fintechs that reduce the CDE through tokenization …

Key takeaways IT infrastructure strategy is no longer as simple as adding hardware and expanding server rooms.   C-suite leaders should work together to build an infrastructure strategy that balances technology and business goals with financial constraints.   Colocation services enable organizations to retain control of hardware while avoiding facility expansion and operation costs.  An organization’s IT infrastructure strategy today can affect nearly …

Key takeaways In the public cloud, egress increases whenever a streaming platform adds subscribers, uses higher bitrates, or achieves longer watch times. This results in rapidly rising costs.  The Hivelocity Streaming Bundle helps platforms shift predictable egress-heavy workloads onto bare-metal infrastructure to unlock significant cost advantages.  Hivelocity infrastructure is not a replacement for your CDN, video platform, or cloud-based GPU transcoding; it’s a dedicated, cost-optimized …

Key takeaways The cheapest moment for organizations to decide where they should put regulated data is before architecture grows. By Series C, architecture is complex, contract-locked, and already under audit scope, making it an expensive decision to migrate.  Not all workloads are suitable for hyperscale elastic models. Approximately 80% of fintech workloads …

Key takeaways Enterprise SaaS buyers want documented RTO and RPO commitments, multi-region failover, and tested recovery, right alongside SOC 2 Type II.  SaaS teams have traditionally opted for a production-equivalent disaster recovery (DR) standby that costs them cloud on-demand rates, significantly driving up expenses.  The Hivelocity SaaS bundle provides a simplified path to more cost-efficient DR while meeting key …

Key takeaways Many fintechs find that risk is hiding in the 99th and 99.9th percentiles of latency, where minor delays can lead to sizable issues such as a missed fill or outdated market data.  Intrinsically, shared cloud environments that introduce performance variables cause latency spikes. These are likely not reflected in the average, but they still matter.   Hivelocity provides bare-metal, single-tenant servers to reduce tail latency incidents and smooth out operations for fintechs.  Average latency is a useful metric, …

Key takeaways Cloud infrastructure offers tremendous workload elasticity—but many workloads don’t need it.  Cloud renewals often spur boards to rethink their cloud strategy and start planning an exit. Moving workloads from the cloud starts by identifying workloads that need elasticity and those that don’t.  IT infrastructure decisions used to be simple. Cloud services were often …

Key takeaways Healthcare cloud spending is often higher than necessary because of inefficient workload placement.  Cloud environments are built for on-demand scalability; they’re offered at a premium price point to match.  Bare-metal infrastructure providers such as Hivelocity offer dedicated hardware that can support steady-state healthcare workloads with optimized cost efficiency.  Many healthcare organizations share a common …