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Container Management - Decoding Kubernetes Management Platforms Part 2

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.

How Monitoring as Code Reduces the Time to Detect and Resolve Issues

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).

SUSE Awarded 16 Badges in G2 Spring 2023 Report

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.

Transforming Monitoring with a Machine Learning-First Approach

Unlocking the full potential of monitoring through ML integration, anomaly detection, and innovative scoring engines. Machine Learning has been making waves in various industries, but its adoption in the monitoring and observability space has been slower than expected. Many “ML” features remain gimmicky and do not provide actual real world value to users that encourages their further use.

4 Elements to Create an Effective IT Automation Strategy

As more and more organizations undergo digital transformation, IT automation is becoming more important and essential to implement. A report by Smartsheet found that more than 40% of those surveyed spend about a quarter of their time working on repetitive tasks, and almost 70% of them say that automation’s biggest opportunity would be that it significantly reduces the amount of time spent on these tasks.