Josh Schaefer

As a leading MSP and IT services provider, New England Network Solutions (NENS) manages thousands of users across 60+ SMB clients on Okta—powered by ZeroTek’s multitenant platform. NENS' identity security playbook is proven: clear discovery, leadership alignment, and risk-based policies. Get the roadmap: https://hubs.ly/Q03Px8WK0 #IdentitySecurity #MSP #Okta #SMB #IAM

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 Ensuring high availability in the cloud doesn’t have to mean inflating your budget. In my recent conversation with Dave Bermingham, Senior Technical Evangelist at SIOS Technology Corp., we dove into how businesses can maintain uptime while controlling cloud costs. “Using SQL Server Standard Edition with SIOS DataKeeper gives you failover clustering without the high licensing and storage costs,” Dave shared. He also pointed out that right-sizing infrastructure and deploying across availability zones can qualify teams for a four-nines SLA—without overspending. This is a must-watch for anyone designing cloud architectures under tight constraints. https://lnkd.in/g8yyuqGV

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💡 Why did SiriusXM move to Portworx and Red Hat OpenShift? It came down to two things: lower TCO and greater flexibility. In this clip from theCUBE, Nate Mason, Director of Platform Operations at SiriusXM, shares how the team built a scalable, hybrid cloud platform that spans on-prem, cloud, and edge - without locking themselves into costly legacy infrastructure. 🎯 The result? A fully integrated architecture that just fits. 🎥 Watch the story: Why TCO and Flexibility Drove SiriusXM’s Move to Portworx + Red Hat https://lnkd.in/e_4RtDpC #Portworx #RedHatOpenShift #SiriusXM #HybridCloud #CloudNative #DevOps #Infrastructure #Kubernetes #TCO

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Azure Managed Redis is now GA! Check out this cool blog post from our rockstar product manager Purna Mehta for step-by-step guidance on creating your first cache on this brand new Azure 1st Party native offering. #AzureManagedRedis #Azure #Redis Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

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Back from KubeCon Atlanta — and I hope everyone who attended made it home safely. Most teams have mastered deploying Kubernetes — but it’s clear that optimizing it is where both customers and partners are feeling the greatest urgency. The CloudBolt Software booth was nonstop with conversations from all types of customers and partners across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premise environments — along with GSIs, RSIs, ISV's and MSPs — all looking to improve efficiency and turn Kubernetes cost, performance, and governance challenges into new service revenue opportunities. The strongest partner interest centered on packaging K8s Rightsizing as a strategic deliverable — driving 50%+ cost savings while enabling both strategic consulting engagements and tactical optimization services, and unlocking differentiated margins and accelerated managed-service growth. If we didn’t get a chance to connect — or if you want to continue the discussion — I’d welcome a follow-up. Let’s speak soon and explore how to make Kubernetes profitability a core part of your partner strategy. #KubeCon #Kubernetes #FinOps #Partners #Cloud #AWS #Azure #GCP #CloudOptimization #DevOps

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Do you find that data silos prevent you from identifying and resolving problems? Hear from John Bulauan, Senior DevOps Engineer on how Tally Group moved from fragmented monitoring to Unified observability. John shares how Grafana Cloud became Tally Group's "one-stop shop" for observability - bringing together dashboards, alerts, synthetic checks, logs, metrics, and on-call schedules in one place. Whether you’re a seasoned observability pro or just starting your journey, Join us at ObservabilityCon on the Road Sydney connect with your peers and get lessons to help modernise your own observability practices. https://lnkd.in/giRTpwdg 

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Monitoring microservices running on Kubernetes can be complex and time-consuming, especially when it requires manual instrumentation or code changes. https://bit.ly/4m2qDkT

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From Kubernetes diffs and ECS weighted traffic shifting to Terraform auto-approvals and GitOps enhancements, we packed Q1 with powerful CD platform upgrades. Highlights include: ✅ Namespace enforcement for Kubernetes & Helm. ✅ Blue-Green weighted traffic for ECS. ✅ Git-triggered pipelines in GitLab. ✅ Environment-type-based freeze windows. ✅ API-driven observability. 👉 Dive into what’s new: https://lnkd.in/eNTbY7SW

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Most platforms claim to support Virtual Machines in Kubernetes, but leave the heavy lifting to you. That includes configuring bare metal servers and stitching together open source tools like KubeVirt. Palette takes a different approach. With Virtual Machine Orchestrator, you get an out of the box, unified platform to manage both VMs and containers. It includes full stack bare metal deployment with the operating system, and a curated set of VM management features ready to go. This is a key differentiator for organizations modernizing complex workloads. Explore Spectro Cloud's Palette here: https://okt.to/7Hq61v Learn more about partnering with us! spectrocloud.com/partners

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