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Asim Razzaq

Asim Razzaq is the co-founder and CEO of Yotascale. Prior to Yotascale, Asim was Senior Director of Platform Engineering (Head of Infrastructure) at PayPal where he was responsible for all core infrastructure processing payments and logins. He led the build-out of the PayPal private cloud and the PayPal developer platform generating multi-billion dollars in payments volume. Asim has held engineering leadership roles at early-mid stage startups and large companies including eBay and PayPal. His teams have focused on building cloud-scale platforms and applications. Asim earned his BS (Honors) in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin where conducted undergraduate research in the areas of resource management and distributed computing and is a published author.

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Reducing Energy Consumption With Cloud Cost Efficiency

A new study from Stanford University found that it takes 75 gigajoules per year of energy for a person to have a good, long life, but the average American uses nearly four times that amount: 284 gigajoules/year. In fact, the U.S. consumes 17% of the world’s energy while accounting for only 4% of the population. […]

Jul 22, 2022 · 3 min

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JUN22

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Four Steps to Avoiding a Cloud Cost Incident

The recent Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud Report found that organizations waste 32% of their cloud spend, up from 3o% last year. This can be due to cloud cost incidents triggered by unused resources, malicious activity or overambitious projects and which have a massive financial impact if not found and corrected promptly. As an […]

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JUN30

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Managing Cloud Governance Costs Collaboratively

For those responsible for managing infrastructure, the concept of governance is common, especially as it relates to cloud services. For cloud services, it’s defined as a framework that guides how end users use these services by defining and creating policies to control costs, minimize security risks, improve efficiency and accelerate deployment. The term is often […]

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