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Many thanks to the incredible group of AI industry visionaries that participated in our "State and Future of AI" panel at Nola in Palo Alto last night -- Sujata Banerjee, Ihab Tarazi, Nima Badiey and John Furrier -- and to all of the media, analysts, clients, VCs and other AI industry leaders that attended. What a great time! Here's to many more! Charlotte Dunlap, Chris J. Preimesberger, R "Ray" Wang, Roy Chua, James E. Carroll

Congratulations to Buildkite for being selected as a finalist for the 2024 Techstrong Group DevOps Dozen Award in the Best End-to-End DevOps Platform category! Buildkite is upending the CI/CD space with its Scale-Out Delivery Platform that lets any company ship software multiple times every day! Software delivered through the Buildkite platform is used by more than 1 billion people daily, with companies including Airbnb, Block, Canva, Cruise, Culture Amp, Elastic, Lyft, PagerDuty, Pinterest, PlanetScale, Rippling, Shopify, Slack, Tinder, Twilio, Uber and Wayfair having made it the standard for their engineering organizations. ??? Vote for Buildkite today and help make it one of the TechStrong DevOps Dozen: https://lnkd.in/gJ2BppFc

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Excited to announce that vCluster from?Loft Labs?is a finalist in the 2024 DevOps Dozen Awards for Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project! vCluster joins other trailblazing practitioners, leaders, products, and companies who are pushing the DevOps community forward?? vCluster is the only open source project that allows teams to create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters, drastically reducing costs and improving multi-tenancy and isolation compared to traditional Kubernetes?? It is a game-changing alternative to both regular clusters and namespaces, and helps companies reduce their cloud spend up to 70%. Virtual clusters are isolated Kubernetes environments that run inside namespaces of an underlying host cluster, and can be spun up in seconds. Their flexibility makes them highly scalable and reactive to changing compute demands, key for AI and ML workloads. With over 6,700 GitHub stars, a Slack community of 3,600, and more than 40 million virtual clusters spun up to date, vCluster maintains a thriving open source community and is empowering developers with cost-effective, self-service Kubernetes. To support Loft’s innovation, VOTE for vCluster at the link below before December 31??? https://lnkd.in/gJ2BppFc

Today, Loft Labs announced the public beta of vCluster Cloud, a managed solution that simplifies and reduces the costs of Kubernetes clusters. Expanded deployment options enable more organizations to leverage vCluster Platform, and the new managed cloud option lets teams get started with virtual Kubernetes clusters faster?? Enterprises need to streamline Kubernetes management while reducing costs and ensuring security across their operations —?vCluster Cloud helps achieve this quickly and securely by providing a hosted version of the vCluster Platform??Key benefits of the platform include: *Easy cluster management and secure access control *Centralized fleet management and observability *Streamlined self-service provisioning, so users can provision virtual clusters via the vCluster CLI or UI; integrations with Rancher, Terraform, and GitHub Actions; or CRDs and custom code. *Advanced cost optimization via sleep mode and auto-delete features triggered by inactivity or timezone-aware cron scheduling *And more! Plus, Loft introduced the External Database Connector in Platform v4.1, a fully automated feature enabling virtual clusters to seamlessly use external databases like MySQL and Postgres (e.g., Amazon RDS) as their backing store?? Loft will be demonstrating its new capabilities this week at KubeCon NA - visit Booth A6 to meet the team! Learn more: https://bwnews.pr/3O4NWfm

Today, Loft Labs announced a major update to its platform: vCluster Platform v4.0??This release makes it easier than ever to add existing virtual clusters to the Platform without having to change the way they are deployed! Now, users can quickly add any virtual cluster to the platform, regardless of whether it was deployed by the platform or an external tool such as Helm, Argo, or Terraform. Eliminating two sources of truth, users may now add their virtual clusters to the Platform even without lifecycle management, empowering them to: *Enable pro features *Give admins an overview of their fleet of virtual clusters *Add authentication via OIDC *Inspect vCluster resources via the UI *And more! In addition, vCluster Platform v4.0 provides a revamped UI with drastic UX improvements??And because the platform is designed to let users connect other tools as OIDC clients, administrators can configure SSO centrally within the Platform, rather than setting it up individually for each tool?? Learn more about all the exciting updates in v4.0: https://lnkd.in/gkk2EpS2

Today, ECL announced that it will build the world’s first fully sustainable 1 Gigawatt hydrogen-powered AI data center, ECL TerraSite-TX1, near Houston, Texas ?? This project will combine breakthrough innovation and sustainability, setting a new standard for the future of data centers. By harnessing hydrogen power, TerraSite-TX1 will operate fully off-grid, marking a significant leap forward in reducing emissions and improving scalability for advanced AI workloads. Key features of ECL TerraSite-TX1 include: *1GW hydrogen-powered, off-grid infrastructure, ensuring zero reliance on traditional energy grids *Purpose-built for the development and deployment of AI technologies *Innovative cooling technology that eliminates the need for external water sources, enhancing efficiency while preserving natural resources This marks the next phase in ECL’s vision of transforming data center operations and powering the AI revolution, while prioritizing sustainability and scalability. ???? Read the full announcement here: https://bwnews.pr/4gHg3hY

System Initiative today announced the general availability of its revolutionary platform for #DevOps Automation. The platform replaces Infrastructure as Code and sets the stage for a series of disruptive innovations across the enterprise technology landscape. Adam Jacob and the team realized a fundamentally new approach was needed to usher in an era of truly collaborative DevOps automation, and today System Initiative offers the solution??Key capabilities that improve on traditional #IaC include: *A living architecture diagram - easily view the entire infrastructure at a glance and use the relationships between components to automatically derive complex configurations. *Rich 1:1 models that make existing knowledge of AWS and other Cloud Providers instantly usable within System Initiative, and fine-grained control over when actions are taken. *Always up-to-date change sets and full programmability via writing small, reactive functions.? *Fully multiplayer experience - users can collaborate with other subject matter experts in real-time, with no need for other platforms, glue code, or state file management. *100% Open Source, with a commitment to building an open and collaborative community of developers, customers, users, and partners. DevOps engineers everywhere can get started today managing their production infrastructure with a generous free tier, simple usage-based pricing, and a welcoming, collaborative open source community?? Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g4xPAYsv Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gVUk7ZX8

Today, video messaging leader Vidyard announced powerful updates to its industry-first, hyper-realistic AI Avatars, which make developing and delivering hundreds of customized sales videos faster than it once took to record one?? New capabilities include: *Bulk personalization — users can personalize scripts for bulk recipient lists using either simple keyword replacement or enriched data from customer intelligence platforms like Clearbit. *AI Avatar integration with leading sales engagement platforms — Salesloft, HubSpot and Apollo.io integrations help sales teams avoid switching between different tools and interfaces, eliminating workflow disruption and reduced productivity. *Enhanced Facial Feature Accuracy enables sales teams to create more natural and lifelike conversations that make users feel as though they are interacting with a real person. *Faster Avatar creation — now, it takes only 90 seconds of footage to train your avatar, and your custom avatar will be ready in as little as 3 hours. These groundbreaking enhancements empower sales teams to rapidly create and deliver hyper-realistic, personalized video messages at scale. Leading global sales and go-to-market teams are already leveraging AI Avatars for improved engagement and response rates, leading to better sales outcomes?? See AI Avatars in action: https://lnkd.in/gMxzYdXp Learn more: https://bwnews.pr/4d6KzOW

Today,?Loft Labs?announced the results of its 2024 vCluster Community Survey, which polled users to understand how teams are deploying?Kubernetes?and managing containerized applications?? The survey reveals that Kubernetes proficiency is evolving, but there is an opportunity for users to cut cloud costs and simplify operations with novel approaches such as virtual clusters?? Key findings include: *The most common use cases for deploying Kubernetes are in a microservices architecture (86%), DevOps and CI/CD workflows (83%), and web application hosting (66%). *vCluster users tend to be quite experienced and work at large enterprises, reflecting the complexity of Kubernetes itself and the push to virtualize driven by senior team members: 72% of respondents have over 8 years’ work experience, almost 60% with more than 10 years.? *75% of respondents run Kubernetes clusters in public cloud providers, while almost 50% use private data centers and managed Kubernetes services. *Kubernetes proficiency is solidifying - 57% of respondents ranked their Kubernetes proficiency highly, either a 4 or 5 on a scale from 1 to 5 — only about 15% of users ranked their expertise between 1-2. The survey reflects Loft’s commitment to continuous improvement in direct collaboration with its growing user base. With over 6,200 Github stars and 40 million virtual clusters created, vCluster’s growth is a testament to the power of virtual clusters to rein in operational complexity and dynamically provision resources for maximum efficiency??#vcluster #loftcommunity Learn more:?https://bwnews.pr/4ejA1x9