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Uncover the optimization potential of your Kubernetes clusters with Ocean Insights

The evolution of Spot’s products has always been tightly aligned with our customers. Over the years, we’ve added integrations across the cloud stack, and developed new features that bring even more efficiency, automation and optimization to cloud infrastructure operations.

Announcing Spot PC: Simple and continuously optimized cloud desktops as a service

Speaking with thousands of organizations adopting cloud computing, it’s clear that the preferred way to consume cloud, from infrastructure to platforms to applications, is “as a service”. Customers want fully managed services, with security and SLAs built in.

Spotlight: Serverless spark on Kubernetes

With Apache Spark now natively supporting Kubernetes, many of our customers are looking to move big data, ML, AI applications into Kubernetes. To help you along this journey, Spot by NetApp recently launched Wave, a serverless container engine designed specifically for big data applications. Built on the same core technologies as Ocean, Wave is giving big applications automated, scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure.

Spotlight: a look into Predictive rebalancing

Have you ever wondered how Spot identifies and predicts spot instance interruptions so you can run your workloads reliably on them? Advanced, highly trained machine learning algorithms are the foundation of many capabilities our platforms deliver and in this session, we’ll show you how Spot tracks, predicts, and replaces spot instances up to an hour before interruption. If you are considering leveraging spot instances for your production and mission-critical workloads, this session will show how Spot eliminates all the risk of spot instances while delivering all the cost-benefits.

Long-term savings without long-term lock-in

While all cloud providers offer discounted pricing in exchange for 1- or 3-year commitments, these financial arrangements carry the risk of lock-in with potential cloud waste and negative ROI. In this session we’ll highlight best practices for planning, purchasing and managing RI and Savings Plans portfolios and how Spot Eco automates cloud commitment optimization for increased savings and utilization.

Spotlight: The evolution of Spot Ocean - CD for Kubernetes applications

Ocean is rising to the application level bringing Kubernetes-native continuous delivery to containers in the cloud. Spot by NetApp’s new solution, Ocean CD, takes on the most painful aspects of modern application delivery to give developers the freedom to push code fast and with confidence. Get an early preview into Ocean CD and its core features for automated progressive deployments and continous verification.

Customer Story: Lacework, Innovating cloud security solutions on kubernetes

The DevOps experts at Lacework, a cloud security and compliance company, were manually managing large Kubernetes cluster themselves. In this session, learn how they went from DIY Kubernetes to automated infrastructure management, freeing their DevOps teams from manual work.

Save up to 90% on Spinnaker-deployed applications costs using Spot's Elastigroup integration

Spinnaker is an open source multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence. It is a leading CI/CD tool and provides core feature sets for cluster and deployment management. Created by Netflix and Google, it combines a powerful and flexible pipeline management system with integrations to the major cloud providers. As Spinnaker developed new features and integrations, many of Spot by NetApp customers adopted it as part of their DevOps stack.