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Rancher Wrap: Another Year of Innovation and Growth

2022 was another year of innovation and growth for SUSE’s Enterprise Container Management business. We introduced significant upgrades to our Rancher and NeuVector products, launched new open source projects and matured others. Exiting 2022, Rancher remains the industry’s most widely adopted container management platform and SUSE remains the preferred vendor for enabling enterprise cloud native transformation. Here’s a quick look at a few key themes from 2022.

FinOps Vs. The Old Way: How Cloud Cost Optimization Is Evolving

In the early days of SaaS companies, most engineering and cloud operations teams weren’t tasked with monitoring or optimizing cloud costs. In fact, it would have been unlikely for these teams to care about cloud cost optimization at all, let alone take measures to fix issues and look for opportunities. Today, SaaS companies that want to secure a competitive foothold and ensure long-term success have to care about cloud costs.

AWS re:Invent 2022 - Ubuntu and beyond: Securely managing open source on AWS

More and more companies are using open source. But how should it be secured? Similar or more urgent questions arise in the container world. Canonical is committed to securing open-source applications with not only Ubuntu but also a host of open-source applications for output (NGINX and Apache), runtime (Go, Node.js, and PHP), messaging (Kafka and RabbitMQ), data (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Memcached) and observability and utilities (Prometheus and Grafana).

Using Squadcast's SLO Tracker | Error Budget | Setting up SLOs and configuring SLIs | Squadcast

With Squadcast, you can define and monitor Service Level Objects for your services. SLOs allow you to define and enforce an agreement between two parties regarding the delivery of a given service. A Service Level Objective (SLO) is a reliability target, measured by a Service Level Indicator (SLI), and sometimes serves as a safeguard for a Service Level Agreement (SLA). SLOs represent customer happiness and guide the development team’s velocity.

Introduction to Service Catalog | Service Ownership | Service Classification | Squadcast

To make service management a breeze, we bring to you our improved Service Catalog. The Service Catalog is designed to improve Service Classification and bring more transparency to Service Ownership within your org. This video explains how a consolidated summary of all active services from a single dashboard can help you better track your service health.

Cloud Adoption Set To Accelerate in Africa

While the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted businesses and the economy, one silver lining is that the event became a catalyst for rapid change and innovation within the enterprise. Across Sub-Saharan Africa, businesses were forced to rethink their operational processes and cater to staff caught in lockdowns turned to technology for solutions – and the cloud provided the answer. 2022 is the year of “big change” for the continent.