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Enabling the Self Driving Cloud with Splunk Observability Cloud and GKE Autopilot

In 2021, any time that you access any kind of web service, whether it be via a website or app, chances are high that the backend is running on Kubernetes. Hundreds of thousands of organizations rely on Kubernetes to power and manage their mission critical services every day, and the reliability and scalability benefits offered by Kubernetes have been felt across the industry.

Why is my SaaS application so slow?

Many companies today rely on SaaS connections in order for the business to function. Some users simply can’t operate in their job when an application becomes unavailable. When hundreds of users are impacted, this can cost a company serious money. That’s why keeping a proverbial finger on the pulse of application performance is generally worth the effort. But, it isn’t easy. Many popular SaaS applications are delivered from hundreds of locations around the world.

2021 Pepperdata Survey: The Reality of Kubernetes in Action

More companies than ever before are migrating to Kubernetes and seeing the results of Kubernetes in action. Kubernetes (K8s) is a key platform for big data users, and as such, we wanted to dive deeper and discover some new truths about current Kubernetes challenges and what the solutions might be. We surveyed 600 IT and big data professionals from various industries to determine which big data applications enterprises are moving or intending to move to Kubernetes.

FinOps Tools: Supercharge Your Investment with Optimization

Cost analysis and allocation tools like CloudHealth, CloudCheckr, and Cloudability play an important role in many organizations’ FinOps journeys by assisting with keeping Finance informed, enabling forecasting, and driving accountability. These tools may also help provide visibility and direction around long-term purchases like Savings Plans and RIs. But, slicing and dicing your cloud costs is only the tip of the FinOps iceberg: 85%+ of your cloud savings potential lies beyond refining how you buy cloud services. You also need to optimize what you’re actually purchasing.

Coralogix is Live in the Red Hat Marketplace!

Coralogix is excited to announce the launch of our Stateful Streaming Data Platform that is now available on the Red Hat Marketplace. Built for modern architectures and workflows, the Coralogix platform produces real-time insights and trend analysis for logs, metrics, and security with no reliance on storage or indexing. Making it a perfect match for the Red Hat Marketplace. Request a Demo.

The 25 Most Important Cloud Metrics For SaaS Companies To Monitor

Author Jeff Duntemann said a good tool improves how you work, whereas a great tool transforms your thinking. Companies that want to improve their cloud-based operations can rely on cloud metrics as an effective tool for transforming their cloud operations. You can't fix what you don't measure. Cloud metrics are the logs of data that a cloud infrastructure or application generates.

2021 AWS Outage and How To Prevent Your Websites and Applications From Being Impacted

December 7 started as a typical, but busy, pre-holiday weekday. This included a mix of booming online retail sales ($33.9 billion spent during cyber week), packages flooding delivery services, and high online traffic. But much of that quickly came to a crawl. An outage of the AWS us-east-1 cloud region changed the good fortune for many websites and applications and impacted the lives of consumers across the United States and parts of Europe.