Optimizing EKS Cost by Leveraging Bare Metal – Roundtable with William Bell and Alex Saroyan

During this roundtable discussion we talked about how to achieve 50-90% cost savings, is it possible to utilize both AWS and Bare Metal, how to load balance traffic between AWS and Bare Metal, is there VPC on Bare Metal, can Bare Metal Kubernetes autoscale and much more.

The 2024 Trends Take on Cloud Computing by Kelsey Hightower and Alex Saroyan. We had a great virtual roundtable discussion on topic “2023 Recap of Tech Trends and Predictions for 2024″ with Kelsey Hightower.  We talked about innovations and industry shifts that shaped the tech world in the past year, also discussed insights about what lies ahead in the upcoming year.

We hosted Platina Systems’ founders for our monthly Netris Connect Roundtable series. We had a discussion on topic “S3 Storage for Private Cloud, On-prem, and the Edge“.  Agenda: What is driving growth in Private Cloud? What is driving demand for object storage in Private Clouds? What is Ceph? How scalable is Ceph? How is it like to operate Ceph in-house? How can Ceph operations be streamlined?

We had a pleasure to host Cycle.io’s team for our monthly Netris Connect Roundtable series. We talked about “Running Containers at scale without Kubernetes”, what it takes to build an applications hosting platform that works at a large scale in a hybrid multi-cloud environment. Agenda: What is Cycle? Container workloads with or without Kubernetes? Build vs. Buy a container application platform? How has Cycle normalized its consumption of infrastructure primitives: in the public cloud, bare metal cloud, and private cloud on-prem? Challenges beyond the cloud: on-prem, colo, edge, bare-metal?

In our latest 3rd episode of Netris Connect podcast, we had the pleasure of hosting two exceptional guests: the President of PhoenixNAP Ian McClarty and an esteemed EVP of Products William Bell. It was an enlightening conversation about private cloud possibilities, why does the world need Bare Metal Cloud where there is colocation and public cloud and much more. We also covered:  What workloads are best suitable for Bare Metal VS AWS – what kind of workloads will benefit the most from moving to Bare Metal? In what cases is it worth moving to bare metal? Is it cost-driven? Revenue-percentage-driven? Company size driven?What is the joint Netris and PhoenixNAP solution and where does it fit for hybrid multi cloud users? In what regions is PhoenixNAP available US and Beyond? How to give Bare Metal a try? All things API, IaC, Terraform, and Pulumi

Jean-Philippe Steinmetz, who is an expert in the online game development world and an experienced cloud practitioner, is sharing their experience of building a private cloud and moving there from AWS. This team has leveraged open-source and modern infrastructure management and automation software to build and operate their own private cloud in a colocation facility to reduce infrastructure costs and improve unit economics.In this Episode, AcceleratXR’s engineering leadership shares their journey of building their own private cloud in a colo using bare metal and efficient infrastructure operations tools such as Netris, Rancher, and Ceph.

Netris Connect - Interview with Rick Fowler and Craig Smith who operate Databento's private cloud network