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By Yarden Kesari
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are increasingly relying on Kubernetes (K8s) to efficiently manage their containerized workloads. However, many organizations face a significant challenge when it comes to effectively utilizing compute resources.
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By Éamon O Neill
NetApp is excited to announce the addition of Shuffle Data Store for Ocean for Apache Spark. Customers running on AWS can now benefit from improved resilience and efficiency for multi-step data preparation pipelines that require Apache Spark to shuffle data. The external shuffle solution is backed by either Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP storage or Amazon S3 storage, which have been optimally configured for Spark workloads.
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By Rami Pinku
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly central to business operations, many organizations are grappling with how to deploy and scale their AI models efficiently. When it comes to AI inference, or how AI analyzes and draws conclusions from new data, Kubernetes offers a compelling solution — but it’s not without challenges.
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By Joanne Godfrey
Forrester Research recently published its Cloud Cost Management and Optimization Solutions, Q3 2024 Wave report in which Spot by NetApp is recognized as one of the 12 most significant vendors in the space. However, Spot by NetApp decided not to participate in this research process given that its Cloud Cost Management products, Cost Intelligence and Billing Engine, were not yet Generally Available (GA) when the research questionnaire was due earlier in the year.
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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
Gain full visibility into your cloud infrastructure and automate continuously for optimal performance, cost efficiency, and resource availability.
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By Spot
In this episode, host Shon Harris interviews Andrew Brown, CEO and founder of ExamPRO, a platform offering “Cloud Obsessed Certification Training”! Andrew shares his journey of creating ExamPRO and discusses the changing landscape of certifications in the tech industry. He emphasizes the importance of practical knowledge and building projects, rather than solely relying on certifications.
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By Spot
In this episode of the Cloud Control podcast, host Shon Harris interviews Andrew Mills, a Senior Solutions Architect at Instaclustr by NetApp. They discuss open source data solutions, particularly focusing on Apache Kafka and its surrounding ecosystem. Andrew shares his journey in the tech industry, his experience with open source technologies, and his role in helping organizations adopt event-driven architecture and become cloud-native. He emphasizes the importance of being curious and continuously learning from mistakes.
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By Spot
Say goodbye to the constant struggle of optimizing cloud costs and resource utilization. With Spot Eco, you can effortlessly gain visibility into overspending and effortlessly manage cloud cost management, allowing you to focus on what matters most.
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By Spot
Welcome to Cloud Control, the podcast where we delve into the world of cloud computing and explore the experiences of industry professionals. In this episode, our host Shon Harris sits down with Chaitra Vadilapuli, co-founder and CMO of Meylah, a leading tech company. Chaitra is a renowned thought leader with a passion for digital transformation and economic inclusion. Join us as we uncover Chaitra's journey in the tech industry, discuss the evolution of cloud computing, and gain valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities faced by women in the field.
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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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