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Product Klip: Komodor's Advanced Cost Optimization Capabilities

This Product Klip covers Komodor's cost optimization features, highlighting how the platform helps users reduce Kubernetes spending while maintaining operational stability. Key features discussed include: Before activation, Komodor provides simulations of potential savings, and for activated clusters, it shows CPU and memory usage before and after Komodor's bin packing and the resulting dollar savings. Komodor enhances existing autoscalers rather than replacing them, unlocking up to 40% in additional savings.

#047 - Securing the Software Supply Chain and Kubernetes with Dustin Kirkland (Chainguard)

Meet Dustin Kirkland, VP of Engineering at Chainguard. Dustin shares his fascinating 26-year journey in the tech industry, from IBM and two stints at Canonical to roles at Google (working on GKE), Apex, and Goldman Sachs, eventually leading him back to engineering at Chainguard.

Keep an eye on remote access to your Kubernetes infrastructure with Datadog Workload Protection

To improve efficiency and reduce cloud spending, teams frequently schedule pods on Kubernetes nodes dynamically, based on available resources. However, this practice has also introduced a new security challenge: The workloads maintained by a development team are now spread between Kubernetes nodes, exposing more hosts and increasing the blast radius when user credentials are compromised.

Cloud Services Investigation: What the CMA's findings mean for the cloud industry

In 2022, the Office of Communications (Ofcom) conducted a market study into the UK cloud industry to investigate whether the UK’s cloud market was working well, and if any regulatory intervention was needed¹. Ofcom concluded that the market was dominated by AWS and Microsoft, and that competition was limited, and referred matter to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for further investigation².