Company Spotlights:ControlTheory (Booth S732), co-founded by CEO Bob Quillin, is addressing the broken observability space. Their new platform tackles three key challenges: cutting observability costs, maximizing observability outcomes, and adapting to change. The solution detects and manages log volume spikes and custom metric cardinality, deduplicates, filters, and enriches logs and traces, routes and stores telemetry in cold storage with rehydration capabilities, and provides compliance features for masking and redacting logs. Their open telemetry-powered approach helps organizations regain control of observability while avoiding vendor lock-in. Visit them at booth S732 to learn more.
Mirantis (Booth N331), simplifies Kubernetes complexity with their latest open source project, k0rdent, designed to help platform engineering teams create composable internal development platforms that scale in a Kubernetes-native way. Their solution provides powerful automation, policy-driven controls, and streamlined cluster management across any infrastructure. At KubeCon, they'll showcase k0rdent in action, demonstrating how it helps teams tame infrastructure sprawl, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate delivery of AI workloads across on-premises, cloud, or edge environments. Don't miss their keynote by Randy Bias on redefining MLOps with Kubernetes, and a lightning talk about using Kubernetes for edge computing in ocean environments. Stop by booth N331 to test your Kubernetes knowledge and win a limited-edition skateboard deck or exclusive Mirantis t-shirt.
Nutanix (Booth S210) helps organizations run Kubernetes consistently across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Their hyperconverged infrastructure features virtualization and storage in one software package that runs both on-premises and in the cloud. Their recently added Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) is a pure upstream Kubernetes distribution with a production-ready stack of CNCF applications including Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, and Dex. NKP provides tools for managing Kubernetes clusters consistently regardless of where they're running - on-premises, on Nutanix, on vSphere, on bare metal, or in any major cloud. This operational consistency across environments significantly reduces the complexities of running both containerized and virtualized workloads.
VictoriaMetrics (Booth N503), presented by its founder, provides open-source observability solutions. Their flagship product, VictoriaMetrics, is an optimized metrics solution compatible with Prometheus that requires fewer computing resources (memory, CPU, disk space) than Prometheus itself, making it ideal for users struggling with Prometheus scalability. In response to user demand, they've also developed VictoriaLogs, a production-ready logging solution that's significantly easier to configure and operate compared to Elasticsearch and the ELK stack. Both solutions are designed with simplicity in mind, offering straightforward getting-started guides for users curious about observability or experiencing issues with existing solutions.
Tintri (Booth S341), founded in 2008, created the VM store platform to address traditional storage challenges. Their 2U appliance is powered by NVMe with AI and machine learning integrated into the software layer. Tintri's unique approach serves I/O at the individual workload level, providing optimized performance with AI-based quality of service, observability, and built-in data protection. The platform supports various workloads including VDI, SQL databases, and most recently, Kubernetes. VM store is hypervisor-agnostic, supporting VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix Xen Server, and others. Visit booth S341 to experience their "Data Disruptor World Tour" themed demonstrations and pick up concert-themed swag, exclusive Tintri vinyl records, and enter to win Lego sets and Tintri-branded record players.
