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New Ocean feature - minimum nodes per Virtual Node Group

Spot by NetApp’s Ocean continually optimizes a Kubernetes cluster’s data plane. When Ocean identifies nodes that aren’t being fully utilized, it simulates various bin packing scenarios. Once a more efficient layout is identified, Ocean reschedules pods, and then gracefully terminates the underutilized nodes. Ocean’s continuous optimization of cluster infrastructure saves your organization money and is better for planet Earth!

CIS-Harden your Ubuntu in Google Cloud

CIS Benchmarks are best practices for the secure configuration of a target system. The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) is the authority backing CIS Benchmarks. Ubuntu Pro is entitled to be CIS compliant and packaged with CIS toolings from Canonical. Let’s SSH into your Ubuntu Pro virtual machine. If you haven’t yet upgrade your Ubuntu LTS to Ubuntu Pro, please follow this tutorial.

How Sumo Logic monitors unit economics to improve cloud cost-efficiency

An often overlooked aspect of a company’s journey to the cloud is cost visibility. While the single number delivered by the cloud provider on a monthly invoice is straightforward, understanding where this number comes from is often more tricky. Fortunately, this task can be facilitated through the usage of various cost monitoring tools available on the market, coming from both third-party companies and the cloud providers themselves.

Pepperdata Lets AWS Auto Scaling Execute More Big Data Workloads

Here at Pepperdata, we continuously work to improve our products and better serve our customers. Whether it’s executing more big data workloads or ensuring their resource consumption remains optimal, we want our customers to get the best value and tangible benefits from our products while not overshooting their big data cloud budgets. Today, we’re bringing you the data to back up our claims that all of this is possible.

Limit Coralogix usage per account using Azure Functions

At Payoneer, we use Coralogix to collect logs from all our environments from QA to PROD. Each environment has its own account in Coralogix and thus its own limit. Coralogix price modules are calculated per account. We as a company have our budget per account and we know how much we pay per each one. In case you exceed the number of logs assigned per account you will pay for the “extra” logs. You can see the exact calculation in this link.

Cloud Computing; Basic Walk-through

Cloud computing is the on demand delivery of IT solutions. Instead of investing capital in buying, owning, and maintaining physical servers and data centers, cloud computing enable the organizations to access the services such as, computing, storages, and databases, whenever required from the desired cloud providers. Now, let us move ahead and have a look at some of the key benefits of cloud computing.

Serverless Cost Optimization: 4 Ways To Lower Your Costs

Serverless services save time. When you switch to serverless architecture, you offload redundant cloud management activities to your cloud provider and gain more time to focus on the most important parts of your business — development and innovation. Even better, you only pay for what you use, so you don’t have to worry about committing to reserved instances or committing to a savings plan. But there’s a catch.

Leaning on Technology in The New Noisy: Managing Cloud, Change and Risk

Your company’s “digital transformation” will be driven by new application designs and methods, new technology stacks, and new processes. To master it, and delivering next generation services through it, massively complex sets of signals and data need to be leveraged, processed, and acted on. Developers need integrated data and insights through that noise, while being able to leverage their tools of choice. All of this must be managed, even in spite of massive rates of change and innovation.

Strengthen Your Cloud Ops with Preventive Healing

The cloud is driving enterprise digital transformation. Gartner predicts that by 2026, public cloud spending will exceed 45% of all enterprise IT spending, a 2.5x growth from 2021. Enterprises globally are accelerating application modernization, embracing the cloud. This is giving rise to a few key trends. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) adoption is on the rise. So, organizations are using applications whose implementation/infrastructure they have little or no control over.