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Shahar Azulay

Shahar Azulay, CEO of groundcover,is a serial R&D leader. Shahar brings experience in the world of cybersecurity and machine learning, having worked as a leader in companies such as Apple, DayTwo, and Cymotive Technologies. Shahar spent many years in the cyber division at the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and holds three degrees in Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology as well as Tel Aviv University. Shahar strives to use technological learnings from this rich background and bring it to today’s cloud-native battlefield in the sharpest, most innovative form to make the world of dev a better place.

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The SaaS Observability Era is Ending: Why BYOC Is the Future of Telemetry

The era of expensive, centralized SaaS observability is hitting a wall. Discover why the “architectural revolution” of Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is the 2026 solution for Kubernetes and AI workloads, restoring data sovereignty, reducing egress costs, and putting telemetry back under engineering control.

Mar 20, 2026 · 3 min

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Scrimmage for Control: On-Premises Vs. SaaS in the Observability Super Bowl of 2024

Using a SaaS solution where data is stored on the vendor’s infrastructure is like playing a football game at your opponent’s home field.

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Observability Costs are too Damn High

Today, any business that deploys software faces an obscene amount of expenses. It has to pay for cloud hosting, assuming of course that it’s among the 92% of companies that use the cloud. It needs trustworthy networks to connect its apps to its employees and customers. It probably pays for a suite of cybersecurity software […]

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