Watch VMblog's interview with Alex Freedland, Co-Founder and CEO of Mirantis, ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London.  Join hosts David Marshall and Brian Ducharme as they discuss how Mirantis is revolutionizing cloud infrastructure for the AI era.

In this insightful conversation, Freedland shares how Mirantis has evolved from "the OpenStack guys" to becoming a leader in container orchestration and cloud-native infrastructure over its 15-year history. He explains how Mirantis' newest open-source project, k0rdent, is helping organizations tackle the massive shift from AI training to inference workloads - a market he predicts will be 50 times larger than training.

Key topics covered:

• How Mirantis is addressing the challenges of traditional computing (doing more with less) and accelerated computing (AI infrastructure)
• The real-world success story of a sovereign AI cloud provider in Europe using Mirantis technology
• How k0rdent differentiates itself by orchestrating Kubernetes clusters with a focus on MLOps and composable infrastructure
• The rapid growth of the k0rdent ecosystem, with over 20 partners joining within one month of launch
• Mirantis' partnership with Gcore to deliver inferencing capabilities anywhere, regardless of location

Freedland emphasizes that 2025 marks the year when AI moves from infrastructure building to application development, turning every AI workload into an HPC (High-Performance Computing) workload. He argues that open source is the only way to drive innovation in infrastructure, especially for AI, by bringing together talent from around the world without creating friction or lock-in.

Visit Mirantis at their KubeCon booth to learn more about their lens product, K0 suite, and the k0rdent project.

For more information, check out https://www.mirantis.com/ or explore their open-source projects at https://k0rdent.io/ and the K0 product line.

In anticipation of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, VMblog sat down with Brock Mowry, CTO of Tintri, to discuss how the company's innovative VMstore platform is transforming Kubernetes data management. As a gold sponsor at this year's event, Tintri is showcasing its workload-aware data management solutions that bridge the gap between virtualized and containerized environments. With capabilities like autonomous management, ML-driven workload placement, and real-time analytics, Tintri aims to simplify operations while managing up to 40PB of data across thousands of applications. Attendees can visit Tintri at booth S341 to experience interactive demo sessions and learn how their technology addresses the growing complexity of hybrid cloud-native environments.

In this exclusive VMblog video interview ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, David Marshall and Brian Ducharme speak with Aliaksandr Valialkin, Founder and CTO of VictoriaMetrics, about their innovative open source observability solutions.

Valialkin introduces VictoriaMetrics, a drop-in replacement for Prometheus that requires significantly fewer computing resources (CPU, memory, disk space) while delivering greater scalability. He then details VictoriaLogs, their newer logging solution that addresses user demands for a better alternative to existing open source options like Elasticsearch and Loki.Key highlights:

• How VictoriaLogs achieves up to 30x less memory usage and 10-15x less disk space compared to Elasticsearch
• The impressive 50:1 compression ratio (1TB of logs compressed to just 20GB)
• Zero-config setup with single binary deployment that automatically scales to available resources
• Superior query language optimized specifically for log analysis
• Easy Kubernetes integration via Helm charts and the VictoriaMetrics operator
• Recent benchmark results showing VictoriaLogs outperforming major databases including Elasticsearch, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL

During the interview, Solutions Engineer Mathias Palmersheim demonstrates VictoriaLogs' capabilities, showcasing its intuitive query interface, powerful extract pipes for structured data parsing, Grafana integration with custom plugins, recording rules, and their new anomaly detection capabilities powered by machine learning.

Valialkin also discusses industry trends for 2025, highlighting how AI is revolutionizing observability through improved incident resolution, anomaly detection, and enhanced documentation search capabilities.

The VictoriaMetrics team will be showcasing their full suite of products at KubeCon Europe 2025, including VictoriaMetrics Cloud (their database-as-a-service offering) and upcoming VictoriaLogs cloud integration.

To learn more about VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaLogs, visit their documentation and GitHub repository, or try their products firsthand to experience the simplicity and resource efficiency that sets them apart from competitors.

In this exclusive VMblog interview, Bob Quillin, Co-founder and CEO of ControlTheory, addresses the mounting crisis in cloud observability that's plaguing enterprise IT budgets. As organizations face skyrocketing costs from logs, metrics, and traces with limited ROI, ControlTheory emerges with a timely solution built on OpenTelemetry that promises to disrupt the observability landscape.

Ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, where the company will showcase as a Silver sponsor at booth S732, Quillin reveals how platform teams can cut costs, sharpen operations, and adapt to change without replacing existing observability tools.