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Rodrick Squires and Shawn Petty will be in Miami Feb 4–5 for the Digital Enterprise CIO Transformation Assembly with The Millennium Alliance. They’re hosting a workshop: “The VMware Exit: What Nobody Tells You About Getting Off Broadcom.” What we’re seeing in the field: the disruption isn’t just pricing. The hard part is what happens when you try to move. You end up rebuilding a virtualization ecosystem that’s been operationalized for years, including backup, DR orchestration, network virtualization, automation workflows, and the muscle memory teams have built around VMware. This session is for infrastructure leaders who need a realistic path to optionality: - How to experiment with alternatives without risking business continuity - How to protect leverage during negotiations - How to retrain teams without creating operational chaos - What a credible 3–5 year path can look like (vs. “lift-and-shift in 90 days”) If you’ll be there, request an invite via the QR and come say hi.

Tech hype cycles are nothing new — but the lessons they leave matter. In Bill Doerrfeld’s recent article in InfoWorld, #techtrends that generated massive buzz but failed to deliver real business impact are put under the microscope — from #blockchain to #NFTs and beyond. Our CTPO Kyle Campos weighs in on one of the most talked-about trends: “Blockchain is a textbook case of overhype…NFTs took the hype even further, touted as the future of digital ownership but ultimately collapsing without meaningful use cases. Lessons from blockchain can definitely be applied to today’s AI frenzy. Focus on solving real problems, not chasing buzzwords.” Read the full article to explore what went wrong with past tech hype waves and what the broader lessons are for teams evaluating emerging innovations today: https://bit.ly/49tV7YG #CloudStrategy #DigitalTransformation #CloudOptimization #Kubernetes #FinOps

By 2026, automated #Kubernetes optimization won’t be optional — it’ll be expected. In #DEVOPSdigest’s 2026 Container Predictions Series, industry leaders share how #containers and #cloudnative platforms will evolve as #AI-driven workloads continue to scale. Our CTPO Kyle Campos predicts a major shift toward automation and continuous optimization: “Automated Kubernetes optimization will hit majority adoption, moving cost management and performance tuning out of ineffective manual processes. This trend toward continuous optimization will expand beyond Kubernetes to data warehouses and other high growth workloads, fueled in part by AI-driven usage growth.” The takeaway: as AI accelerates infrastructure demand, manual procedures will struggle to keep up — and continuous, automated optimization will become foundational across cloud environments. Read the full predictions roundup here: https://bit.ly/3YAzRvz #CloudOptimization #AIInfrastructure #PlatformEngineering #CloudStrategy #2026Predictions

A good conversation with KubeFM on why Kubernetes cost allocation has stayed fragmented and why that’s starting to change. In this interview, Kyle Campos talks about what happens when cost reporting and optimization stop living in separate tools, and why workload-level context is essential if teams want to move from visibility to action. Worth a watch if you’re wrestling with Kubernetes cost accountability or trying to align platform and FinOps teams.

Kubernetes “optimization” still looks like babysitting clusters and spreadsheets for a lot of teams: rightsizing sprints, homegrown dashboards, and AWS bills nobody can cleanly map back to workloads or teams. On January 28 at 12 PM PT, we’re teaming up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to walk through a better approach. In this live session, Rafael Brito (Principal Engineer, StormForge by CloudBolt) and Lucas Soriano Alves Duarte (Principal Container Specialist SA, AWS) will show how to: - Automate pod and node rightsizing with EKS Auto Mode - Get container- and workload-level cost allocation on AWS - Give platform, engineering, and FinOps a shared view of Kubernetes performance and spend Register here to join us on Jan 28 at 12 PM PT: https://lnkd.in/gxJjY8WB

If your hybrid automation strategy is anchored in Aria/vRealize, you’ve probably felt the pressure to make smart decisions without breaking what already works. We’re hosting a fireside chat with Jack Holder and Jon Linn from F3 Technology Partners and CloudBolt CTPO Kyle Campos to share what we’re seeing across enterprises right now, and how teams are building optionality into their automation strategy with extensibility and guardrailed self-service. Join us. Registration is open on the LinkedIn event.

Kubernetes “optimization” often looks like this: manual rightsizing sprints, homegrown dashboards, and spreadsheets trying to line up pod usage with AWS bills. On Jan 21 at 12 PM PT, we’re teaming up with AWS to show a better way. In this live session, Rafael Brito and Lucas Soriano Alves Duarte will cover: - How Auto Mode keeps pods and nodes right-sized automatically - How to get container- and workload-level cost allocation on AWS - How platform, engineering, and FinOps teams can finally use the same data to make faster decisions 📅 Save your seat: https://lnkd.in/gwGVhAjQ

Still splitting your Kubernetes bill like a dinner check? Most teams do some version of “even split” or rough namespace-based allocation. It’s good enough to keep things moving, but it falls apart the moment finance asks: “What does this customer/product actually cost us on Kubernetes?” This carousel walks through a simple “shared wine bottle” analogy we use with VPs and FinOps teams to show why that model breaks—and what bill-accurate allocation needs to look like instead. If this hits a little too close to home and you want to see what real, invoice-backed K8s allocation looks like, you can request private preview access here: https://lnkd.in/gcmfwure

Our CTPO Kyle Campos is back in Forbes Technology Council, with a new piece on why cloud is entering its #convergence era. In the article, Kyle shares why the cloud’s next chapter will be shaped by convergence, bringing #FinOps, #DevOps, #SecOps, and #PlatformEngineering into a shared operating motion instead of siloed workflows. Because when insight and action live in different places, optimization stalls. Convergence closes that loop. Bottom line: as #cloudenvironments sprawl, teams need cost, governance, and reliability to work together in the flow of engineering — not bolted on after deployment. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g9M2FXZy #MultiCloud #CloudOptimization #CloudStrategy #ForbesTechCouncil 

📢 News: CloudBolt has signed a multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), expanding how we work together to help enterprises build, manage, and optimize workloads across AWS. What this means for customers: ⚡ Faster cloud insight-to-action across AWS ♻️ Continuous optimization to cut waste & boost efficiency 📈 Smarter #Kubernetes performance at scale via intelligent rightsizing from StormForge 🛒 Easier adoption & scaling through AWS Marketplace Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gPiuNt6N #AWS #CloudManagement #FinOps #HybridCloud #MultiCloud #CloudOptimization #AIOps