Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Every data center has a rhythm. When you think about a single application—SAP, for example—it has certain “beats.” First thing Monday morning, you see a steady and fast cadence, while over the weekend, it slows to a light tap. And there may be seasonality that rises to a crescendo.

June 7, 2023 It’s no secret that Kubernetes is one of the fastest-growing technologies in use today for deploying and operating applications of all types in the cloud. It’s also no secret that Kubernetes’ popularity is a significant contributor to fast-growing cloud bills. FinOps teams are constantly looking for ways to lower their cloud spend, in cooperation with the DevOps, Engineering and App owner teams that control this infrastructure.

As the prevalence of containers continues to expand, managing the push and pull of containers without an enterprise-grade container registry is unwieldy. Many companies utilize JFrog Artifactory as a Docker and Helm registry, but also utilize Docker Desktop strategically to manage their container services.

Canonical’s MLOps portfolio is growing with a new machine learning tool. Charmed MLFlow 2.1 is now available in Beta. MLFlow is a crucial component of the open-source MLOps ecosystem. The project announced it had passed 10 million monthly downloads at the end of 2022. With Charmed MLFlow users benefit from a platform where they can easily manage machine learning models and workflows.

After successfully concluding Day 1 & 2, we had an exciting Day 3 of INTEGRATE 2023 with some awesome sessions, powerful demos, and of course many updates from Microsoft Product Group.

As the UK’s edge infrastructure provider, we’ve launched platformEDGE™ — a next-generation platform that will enable regional businesses across the UK to harness the opportunity of digital transformation. PlatformEDGE is a UK-wide integrated infrastructure that enables scalable, high-performance, low-latency edge application delivery.

A comprehensive guide on understanding high cardinality Prometheus metrics, proven ways to find high cardinality metrics and manage them.

What is hybrid cloud automation, and how can it help manage specific tasks in your environment? With more and more infrastructure moving into public, private, hybrid, and multi cloud environments, you may be exploring ways to automate manual processes that happen in the cloud — like configuration and deployment tasks. Let's dive into the definition and benefits of cloud automation, as well as some methods to approach this strategy in increasingly complex heterogenous computing environments.