Spot by NetApp is once again thrilled to be named a leader and outperformer in FinOps by tech industry analyst firm GigaOm – for the third year in a row!

You are probably in the quest to find the best method to host your organization’s software and data. Out of all the options out there, a big part of the decision comes down to choosing between on-premise vs. cloud. Apart from asking yourself which of them fits the IT budget better and how much you need to worry about security, from a technical standpoint you also have to understand the types of management. The key difference lies in the ownership and control/monitoring of the IT infrastructure.

IT asset management (ITAM) software enables managed service providers (MSPs) and IT teams to manage IT assets efficiently and ensure they work efficiently. Assets refer to hardware such as desktops, mobile devices, printers, and servers, as well as intangible assets such as software licenses and digital data. ITAM solutions streamline the entire lifecycle of IT assets, from configuring and deploying new assets to monitoring their usage to ensuring data security when decommissioning assets.

Load balancer is a system that distributes network traffic across a group of servers. AWS’s load balancing service is called ELB (Elastic Load Balancing). It automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets like EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses. It essentially acts as a traffic cop for your application, ensuring high availability and scalability.

In part 1 of this series, we took a look at what CloudTrail logs are, the value addition that CloudTrail logs serve and some of the problems involved in processing and storing these logs. In part two of this series, we will look at how Observo helps organizations process CloudTrail logs at scale and derive value from them. As a quick recap, let’s take a look at what a CloudTrail event looks like.

You’re at the checkout in a supermarket, and suddenly, the payment system stops working. Frustrating, right? Unfortunately, this is an all-too-common scenario that explains why some people think twice before shopping in person. It isn't just a problem for shoppers—it's a major headache for businesses that operate across multiple locations.

Digital transformation is happening at a rapid pace. Customers demand always-on, always-mobile, instantly available experiences, while businesses look to modernize for increased productivity, responsiveness, and profitability. Amid this constant change and increasing pressure to achieve more with limited resources, IT teams struggle to keep pace, weighed down by legacy tools and operational processes that no longer scale.

Troubleshooting within Kubernetes environments can be a daunting task. If we could only have a magical artificial intelligence advisor that could gather all the data about what goes on the system, and tell me what’s wrong, and even how to solve it. Wouldn’t it be nice? K8sGPT is a young open source project that uses generative AI to give Kubernetes superpowers to everyone. It recently turned a year old, and is now part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

In the previous articles, we used freestanding applications and relied on a global Zephyr installation. In this article, we’ll see how we can use West to resolve global dependencies by using workspace applications. We first explore West without even including Zephyr and then recreate the modified Blinky application from the previous article in a West workspace.

I’m Romaric, the CEO and co-founder of Qovery. With 15 years of experience managing large-scale infrastructure and a passion for computer science, I’ve embarked on a journey to build an ambitious tech product designed to revolutionize the developer experience. At Qovery, we aim to simplify the path to production for developers, ensuring they can focus on writing code without worrying about the underlying infrastructure.