Wherever you are on your cloud journey, you’re likely under pressure to cut or at least control your cloud spend. You may be undertaking “quick fix” cost cutting tactics such as turning off resources or moving workloads to cheaper services. But, as you may be finding out, tactical, reactive cost management activities generally only work for the short term and do not solve systemic inefficiencies that only increase over time if not addressed.

If you are in charge of managing IT assets in your organization, you probably know that software deployment is non-negotiable. One could say that it ranks very close to having a unified inventory and being able to manage it right from your IT Asset Management tool. Well, InvGate Insight did all that perfectly, and now it closes the circle of must-have features with the addition of the first release of its software deployment capabilities!

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced today the general availability of Charmed Kubeflow 1.8. Charmed Kubeflow is an open source, end-to-end MLOps platform that enables professionals to easily develop and deploy AI/ML models. It runs on any cloud, including hybrid cloud or multi-cloud scenarios. This latest release also offers the ability to run AI/ML workloads in air-gapped environments.

As customers scale to thousands of hosts and deploy increasingly complex applications, it can be difficult to ensure that every host is configured to give you the visibility you need to monitor your infrastructure and applications. To ensure visibility across a growing number of hosts, you need to know that your observability strategy is implemented uniformly across your entire fleet of Datadog Agents installed on these hosts.

Kublr team is happy to announce the new release 1.27, which we have been carefully crafting in previous months. At Kublr, we support six different versions of Kubernetes and a bunch of different clouds, so our team is focused on thoroughly testing each changed component and maintaining backward compatibility.

In the dynamic realm of virtualization management, the latest release of the NiCE VMware Management Pack is bringing new, much-desired monitoring features to the SCOM admin table. Packed with a slew of powerful features and enhancements, this release promises to enhance the monitoring capabilities for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance.

The Splunk Add-on for OpenTelemetry Collector is a variation of the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector that simplifies metrics and traces data collection, configuration and management. Since it is an add-on, users can deploy it alongside Universal Forwarders using tools like Deployment Server to start collecting high-fidelity metrics and traces from 1000s of their hosts easily. We’re happy to announce that the Add-On is now generally available in Splunkbase.

Today marks a significant milestone for Qovery and a highly anticipated evolution of our product, especially among Platform Engineers and DevOps professionals. We're thrilled to announce the "Bring Your Own Kubernetes" (BYOK) offer in beta access, a transformative step in our journey towards more flexible and adaptive infrastructure management. Please keep reading to understand why we extend our offer.

The ability to swiftly resolve incidents is central to SREs responsible for a service's reliability and its users' satisfaction. Mezmo has recognized this need and, at Kubecon, unveiled an innovative solution: Mezmo Responsive Pipelines. Responsive Pipelines enable users to pre-configure a Pipeline to respond automatically in the case of an incident.

When we began offering Grafana Cloud Metrics, we set a service level agreement (SLA) for 99.5% of requests to be completed within a few seconds. So we built an alert that would go off if more than 0.5% of requests were slower than a couple of seconds within a five-minute moving window. Sounds reasonable, right?