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The argument for AWS Spot Instances
By Chris Jones
In a spot market, buyers and sellers immediately exchange financial securities for cash. The spot price is what buyers and sellers agree to pay or receive for an asset. When... Read More
Maximize cloud usage and cost efficiency using FinOps best practices
By Kamesh Pemmaraju
This blog post is a detailed recap of a recent Platform9 webinar led by FinOps ambassador Dieter Matzion, who shared invaluable insights into how to use FinOps best practices to... Read More
Run EKS workloads on 50% compute resources with Elastic Machine Pool
By Kamesh Pemmaraju
In this blog post, we will summarize our recent webinar showcasing the value of Platfom9’s latest product, Elastic Machine Pool (EMP), as well as a demonstration of how it works.... Read More
In the earlier blog posts in this series, we detailed some of the mechanisms in Kubernetes available to control the resources allocated to the workloads in the cluster. But even... Read More
Mastering the operational model challenge for distributed AI/ML infrastructure
By Kamesh Pemmaraju
The NVIDIA GTC event has concluded. I recently returned from this event in San Jose, still buzzing with excitement from the incredible announcements and palpable energy throughout the conference. The... Read More
Exploring Platform9 Managed OpenStack as a modern virtualization alternative
By Peter Fray
OpenStack has always been viewed as an open-source innovation in the cloud computing world, offering a comprehensive suite of features for scalable cloud infrastructure and proven capabilities to replace VMware... Read More
The resurgence of OpenStack: Addressing the cloud conundrum
By Kamesh Pemmaraju
Cloud computing is undergoing a transformative phase. In this blog, we examine resurgence of OpenStack in the face of severe market disruptions, particularly the massive price hikes imposed by Broadcom... Read More
Kubernetes FinOps: Resource management challenges
By Joe Thompson
In our previous blog post we covered the different ways to think of “utilization” in Kubernetes, and some of the basic metrics that are most commonly used to control application... Read More
Kubernetes FinOps: Basics of cluster utilization
By Joe Thompson
Whether you run applications in the cloud or on-premise, optimizing your utilization of the computing hardware you rent or own is a necessary part of operations. The term “FinOps” is... Read More