On August 31st 2022, Amit and Aditya shared a blog post discussing the Emergence of Cloud Desktops. This struck a chord for me because it tells the story of where we are, how we got here, and where we are going. End-user computing (EUC) is fast evolving with new inventions taking place often.

Is the lack of cost visibility in your Kubernetes cluster driving you crazy? Do you spend hours trying to decipher your cloud provider bill in order to break down the cost per team or per service (chargeback)? Kubernetes certainly simplifies deployment, management, and scaling of applications but for cost visibility, look no further, Ocean Cost Analysis is your answer. It provides Kubernetes application level visibility to your cloud provider costs.

End user computing is a popular target for malware attacks. Virtual desktops are no exception. As noted in previous posts, Spot PC emphasizes a “security in layers” approach to securing virtual desktop sessions. This includes using Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and their built-in user identity and security management offered by Microsoft Azure Active Directory. Spot PC also enables Defender for Cloud for every managed virtual machine.

Spot by NetApp is pleased to launch a new API that returns all Ocean managed nodes in a cluster. This new “Get Nodes” API provides detailed information about the nodes in the cluster as well as Ocean related information. Ocean is an automated cloud infrastructure SaaS for containers. With any automated system, it is essential to have ways to monitor what it is doing on your behalf.

Eco’s ability to leverage Amazon’s Reserved Instance Marketplace when managing and optimizing customers’ EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) commitments is well known. Through advanced algorithms and many years of experience, we’re able to deliver the flexibility of on-demand with the savings of reserved instances.

See how Spot is helping customers increase DevOps productivity, deploy applications faster, and maximize cloud ROI by downloading the latest IDC study here.

The world of consumption has changed to everything as a service. Be it the way we consume movies and music to our office productivity tools, personal data storage, health and wellness, even our day-to-day shopping experience for consumer goods. The evolution of technology played a huge role in this. People no longer download songs or movies, nor do we buy CDs and DVDs for our personal entertainment. Rather we are now in a world where OTT (Over the Top) has become the default.

Ocean for Apache Spark has featured support for integration with Jupyter notebooks for quite some time – for details, please see our documentation. However, many developers would like to have this interactive notebook within their familiar IDE, such as VS Code, so that they can benefit from other IDE built-in features including Git integration. This article describes how to use VS Code to run Jupyter notebooks, while the code executes on an Ocean for Apache Spark cluster.

Cloud native architectures using Kubernetes and microservices have brought a lot of flexibility, enabling teams to release more applicative updates and do it multiple times a day for tens or even hundreds of services.

FinOps, or cloud financial operations, is a method that helps organizations bring financial accountability to their cloud’s operational expenses. To see success, the cross-functional teams leading FinOps efforts — including finance, IT, and business professionals — need the right tools to manage and optimize their cloud costs.