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As a global leader in second-generation Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software, we have the opportunity to speak with a lot of data center professionals. One of the most common stories we hear is that they are still using Excel, Visio, open-source software, and homegrown tools to manage their data centers and that these tools are causing them a lot of pain. They're manually intensive, inaccurate, hard to use, and not integrated.

This is the first article of a series of two covering the advantages and disadvantages of hosted and non-hosted Kubernetes management platforms. First, let’s introduce hosted what is hosted Kubernetes management platform (KMP) and provide a broader view of hosted KMPs.

This article is the second in a series covering Kubernetes Management Platforms (KMPs). In the first article, we analyzed hosted KMPs, exploring their potential benefits and customer base. This blog will examine non-hosted KMPs and the organizational customer profiles that can benefit the most from this solution. After the first article, you may think that hosted KMPs are the way to go, but there are many things to consider before deciding.

A web application or an API breaking is a matter of when, not if. Whether the cause is buggy code making it to production or infrastructure failing to support the software built upon it, incidents of varying severity are the norm rather than the exception, appearing frequently enough that the industry has coined the terms Mean Time To Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR).

Spring is here and so are the latest G2 Badges! I’m happy to share that G2 has awarded 15 badges to SUSE in its 2023 spring report, including the overarching ‘Users Love Us’ badge (again). G2, the world’s largest and most trusted tech marketplace, recognized Rancher, SLE Desktop, SLE Real Time, SLES and SUSE Manager as High Performers and Momentum Leaders. G2 also awarded the openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux distribution.