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Monitoring Amazon ECS with Blue Matador

Amazon ECS allows you to easily run containers in AWS in units called tasks. Groups of identical tasks are called services, and groups of services running on the same infrastructure are called clusters. Since it is critical to the health of your application, properly monitoring ECS is a top priority for most teams. In this blog post, we will go over how Blue Matador monitors ECS tasks automatically and without configuration.

Kubernetes Master Class: Kubernetes from Zero to Hero

Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for deploying containerized applications at scale on the different cloud providers. Why is this? In this Kubernetes Master Class, we'll discuss the reasons for using Kubernetes (K8s), the core concepts, architecture, real-life scenarios, and the differences betwen using managed vs un-managed K8s solutions, and how to reduce costs by using cloud excess capacity.

Introducing CloudWisdom, A SaaS Platform that Reduces the Cost and Risk of Operating Public Cloud Infrastructure

We are excited to announce CloudWisdom, a SaaS platform that reduces the cost and risk of operating public cloud infrastructure for enterprise businesses. CloudWisdom optimizes public cloud computing and capacity by recommending configurations unique to your application workloads using machine learning algorithms. This enables our customers to avoid performance bottlenecks and financial waste commonly associated with environments hosted in the public cloud.

Virtual Instruments is now Virtana!

I’m excited to announce that today we’re changing our company name to Virtana. Over the past three years, we have been steadily reinventing Virtual Instruments. You will still find the same deep infrastructure expertise, the same commitment to mission critical workloads, but now our portfolio offers a lot more breadth across the data center and into the public cloud.

Virtual Instruments Becomes Virtana; Enabling Customers to Harness Real-Time Infrastructure Analytics to Transform IT Operations

Virtual Instruments today announced that it has become Virtana, a company focused on providing customers with the industry’s most robust AI-powered hybrid IT infrastructure management platforms for mission-critical workloads. Underscoring this commitment to helping enterprises manage their complex multi-cloud environments, today Virtana introduced CloudWisdom, a SaaS-based cloud cost optimization and monitoring platform.