In this exclusive VMblog interview from the IGEL Now & Next 2025 event in Miami, Joel Stocker, Director of Product Marketing at ControlUp, breaks down the company's cutting-edge approach to digital workplace monitoring and experience management.

In this exclusive VMblog interview from the IGEL Now & Next 2025 event in Miami, Chee Tan, VP of Ecosystem and Alliances at Vasion (formerly PrinterLogic), reveals how the company is transforming print management for enterprises.

In this exclusive interview from the IGEL Now and Next 2025 conference in Miami, Amitabh Sinha, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Workspot, reveals how their cloud-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is transforming enterprise computing.

Discover how Island is revolutionizing enterprise computing with its innovative Chromium-based Enterprise browser, offering unprecedented data loss prevention and seamless user experience. In an exclusive interview at IGEL Now & Next 2025, Island's Field CTO Jason Trunk reveals how their browser solves critical security challenges for modern businesses, providing granular control over sensitive data across different work environments.

Key highlights include:

• Advanced data protection mechanisms
• Seamless integration with enterprise identity systems
• Unique ability to secure and manage browser-based applications
• Simplified access to corporate resources without traditional VPNs
• Partnership with IGEL for enhanced endpoint security

Ideal for IT professionals, security managers, and business leaders looking to understand the future of secure browser technology.

In this VMblog interview from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London, host David Marshall along with Brian Ducharme speak with Betty Junod, Chief Marketing Officer at Heroku of Salesforce. Betty shares insights into how Heroku’s platform-as-a-service offering is evolving to meet the needs of modern developers while maintaining the simplicity that has made it popular since 2007.

Betty explains Heroku’s unique approach to solving the complexity challenges faced by cloud-native developers. Rather than requiring teams to piece together hundreds of point solutions from the expanding Kubernetes ecosystem, Heroku delivers an integrated, opinionated platform experience based on their proven 12-Factor app methodology.

Heroku is a comprehensive PaaS (Platform-as-a Service) designed to help companies build, deliver, monitor and scale apps. Heroku enables teams focus on what's important — the apps and services that run their business

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Planning your visit to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London? Don't miss these innovative vendors who are solving critical challenges in the Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystem. From observability cost control to hybrid cloud management, this spotlight series highlights five companies showcasing solutions that address today's most pressing cloud native challenges.

In this video, we feature:

ControlTheory - Fixing broken observability with cost controls (Booth S732)
Mirantis - Simplifying Kubernetes complexity with k0rdent (Booth N331)
Nutanix - Delivering consistent Kubernetes across hybrid and multi-cloud environments (S210)
VictoriaMetrics - Open source observability solutions optimized for performance (N503)
Tintri - AI-powered storage solutions with Kubernetes support (Booth S341)Watch to learn how these vendors can help you optimize your cloud native infrastructure and applications.

Visit each booth at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 to learn more and pick up some exclusive swag!

In this VMblog video interview, Anirban Sengupta, Chief Technology Officer at Aviatrix, shares insights on the company's latest innovation-the Aviatrix Kubernetes Firewall-ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London. This timely release addresses critical security and scaling challenges faced by enterprises deploying Kubernetes at scale across multiple clouds and environments.

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 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.