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By Spot by NetApp
The rapid rise of generative AI and large language models is revolutionizing industries and transforming how we interact with technology. However, developing and deploying these cutting-edge AI models and applications at scale in the cloud comes with a unique set of operational challenges. In this article, we’ll explore the key pain points teams face when building generative AI and how Kubernetes and FinOps practices can help overcome them.
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By Lauren Dyer
We are thrilled to announce that Spot Elastigroup and Spot Ocean for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) are now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace, reinforcing NetApp’s commitment to providing customers with a more streamlined way to consume its CloudOps solutions and invest in intelligent automation to maximize efficiency across their infrastructure and teams.
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By Woody Gover
As Data Scientists and Engineers in a fast-paced corporate environment, our daily activities are filled with numerous challenges. One of the most daunting obstacles we face is the management of infrastructure and related costs. Each task or model we work on must be scheduled meticulously, cost-optimized, and equipped with the right CPU and memory specifications. On top of that, we must also supervise their dependencies.
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By Li-Or Amir
Businesses leveraging Microsoft Azure’s cloud infrastructure face distinct challenges centered around the complexities of cost management and infrastructure optimization. Designing a cloud environment that aligns with business needs and strict budgets requires not only a deep understanding of Azure’s vast offerings but also state-of-the-art automations to optimally leverage them.
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By Revital Vladimirsky
Optimization is key to achieving cost efficiency and stability for cloud environments. One optimization factor to consider is deciding which availability zones (AZ) to operate in. Location can impact cloud operations availability, performance, and cost. However, it can be a daunting task to look for the most suitable and cost-efficient AZs. There are two key challenges.
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By Tzvika Zaiffer
In the last few years, many businesses have migrated much of their operations to the cloud, and with increased usage, the complexity of managing cloud costs and achieving operational efficiency has grown as well. In many cases, cloud usage is outpacing the capabilities or availability of DevOps and FinOps teams to effectively manage a larger, more complex cloud infrastructure, so cloud optimization solutions are becoming the lifeline to maintaining reliable and cost-efficient operations.
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By Spot by NetApp
What do today’s cloud practitioners need to navigate the ever-evolving cloud ecosystem? The growing complexity of the cloud requires innovation through automation, optimization, containerization, and a variety of other technologies. Yet with so many different methodologies, strategies, and best practices available to them today, cloud operations professionals need to know which options will bring them the greatest success as their cloud journeys evolve.
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By Joanne Godfrey
We’re thrilled to be back again at FinOps X in San Diego. The premier FinOps event of the year, it’s a fitting place to proudly announce that the Spot by NetApp product portfolio is now a FinOps Certified Platform. This FinOps Foundation certification reaffirms our commitment to supporting the FinOps framework and best practices.
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By Zak Harabedian
Fast scaling is a pressing business need in many B2C industries like media distribution, streaming, and gaming. Spot by NetApp is proud to offer the fastest scaling on earth with its enhanced Ocean controller.
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By Bobby Gaffin
In late 2023, AWS began informing customers that as of January 15, 2024, they would start enforcing their existing policy of not allowing discounted RIs to be sold on the RI Marketplace, according to AWS Service Terms 5.6.1.: “You may not resell an EC2 Reserved Instance that you purchased through a discount program.” This policy has been in place since at least 2014; however, AWS rarely enforced it.
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By Spot
In this episode of Cloud Control podcast, hosts Sean Harris and Danal Burke are joined by special guest Dvir Mizrahi, Head of Financial Engineering and FinOps at Wix.com. They discuss the transition from DevOps to FinOps and the challenges that come with it. Dvir explains how they took a ground-up approach at Wix, involving the Engineering teams in the FinOps process and aligning it with their existing processes. They also talk about the importance of tools in managing and monitoring cloud costs, and how Wix developed their own in-house tool to suit their specific needs.
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By Spot
In this episode, Shon Harris, the Developer Relations Lead at Spot, interviews Tammer Saleh, the Founder of SuperOrbital. They discuss Tammer's journey from being a UNIX systems administrator to an engineering leader in the cloud industry. They touch upon the surprises and changes he has witnessed throughout his career, including the shift to Linux as a viable Unix option and the significance of macOS adopting a BSD-based system.
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By Spot
Tammer Saleh from SuperOrbital discusses the effect of Kubernettes for developers and more! Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/FyPwAIG91mM
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By Spot
In this episode Charity Majors, the co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, discusses observability in the cloud computing industry. She talks about her experience speaking at Google Cloud Next and the importance of observability in developing software applications. Charity explains how Honeycomb uses AI to assist with constructing queries and how observability is about understanding and developing complex systems. She also emphasizes the need for a single source of truth in observability tools and the shift from metrics to logs.
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By Spot
Cloud Control welcomes Yonit Gruber-Hazani, a customer engineer at Google focused on helping public sector organizations in Israel through digital transformation journeys with the cloud. Yonit shares her experience in technology, including her roles as a DevOps SRE team lead and open source contributor. She also discusses her time at Waze, where she managed their infrastructure of over ten thousand servers.
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By Spot
In this episode we are joined by Simon Wardley, a pioneer of Wardley Maps and strategic thinking. Join us as Simon looks back at his foundational days at Canonical, the shaping of Ubuntu’s cloud dominance, and his groundbreaking work on mapping techniques that aid in anticipating technological shifts. He explores the critical role of open source in cloud computing, the impact of serverless architectures, and the futuristic shift towards conversational programming and AI.
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By Spot
Are you looking to enhance your organization's scalability journey? Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) can be a game-changer, especially when optimization is integrated into their design. By optimizing resource provisioning, utilization, and spend through automated workflows and guardrails, you can achieve more with your engineering time and budget. Join our roundtable discussion where we explore practical strategies for making optimization an integral part of your IDP.
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By Spot
Welcome backl! In this episode, we have a captivating discussion with Tim Crawford, a trusted advisor to C-Suite Technical leaders in various industries, ranging from startups to enterprises and higher education. Join us as we delve into the realm of Hybrid Cloud, exploring its significance and the evolving role of open source in business computing. We'll also shed light on the far-reaching implications of high-profile acquisitions and mergers within the tech industry. Get ready to gain valuable insights into the world of hybrid cloud and open source that will empower your business endeavors.
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By Spot
In this episode, Shon sits down with Marino Wijay, a trailblazer in open-source community engineering. Marino, with his rich expertise in Kubernetes, Istio, EBPF, and more, delves into the evolution of networking, infrastructure automation, and the cloud-native landscape. Join us as we uncover the secrets of full-stack networking, CI/CD pipelines, and the principles of infrastructure as code, all while navigating the dynamic challenges and opportunities within the tech industry.
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By Spot
Welcome to our comprehensive DevOps tutorial on optimizing Kubernetes infrastructure! In this video, we will delve into the challenges faced by DevOps professionals when managing complex and dynamic Kubernetes environments. Specifically, we'll focus on the issue of idle resources and provide you with four effective techniques to minimize them with Spot Ocean.
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