Name: Choosing an enterprise Kubernetes platform: an analyst's guide
Start: 2024-06-20T15:00:00Z
End: 2024-06-20T15:00:38.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Spectro Cloud uniquely enables organizations to manage Kubernetes in production, at scale. Our Palette management platform gives effortless control of the full Kubernetes lifecycle, across clouds, data centers, bare metal and edge environments.

Margins in quick-serve, casual dining, and multi-unit restaurants are tight. Even one lost hour due to a tech outage during a lunch rush or busy weekend night can have a massive negative impact.

A strong edge computing deployment is the foundation for your POS, and so much more. It keeps orders flowing, kitchens firing and guests smiling, even when the WAN drops. 

Join Spectro Cloud and our customer High Touch Technologies to hear how they successfully deployed their Nigel  enterprise restaurant management software across dozens of locations, unlocking value that every server and franchise owner and operator can feel.

We’ll distill lessons from years of real-world edge roll-outs — including multinational chains you know — and show you how to:

Design for downtime: build highly available edge clusters so your POS keeps humming, even if the internet doesn’t.
Ship faster, safer: use zero-touch provisioning and A/B upgrades to open new stores — or swap hardware — without sending a specialist engineer.
Delight guests: rapidly iterate new software features, including AI-driven experiences right at the counter.

Serving up resilience and new guest experiences at the restaurant edge

Defense and many other public sector missions often need cloud-native applications to run in locations the public cloud can’t reach. AWS architect Rob Goodwin joins Spectro Cloud architects to show how you can extend Amazon EKS to the tactical edge using AWS Outposts, combined with Spectro Cloud’s VerteX Kubernetes platform.

This webinar is ideal for federal IT leaders and mission owners looking to extend modern infrastructure beyond the data center. You’ll leave with a clear, actionable roadmap for deploying secure, resilient Kubernetes clusters anywhere the mission demands — powered by AWS and Spectro Cloud.

You'll also learn about:

    Building blocks of AWS Hybrid Edge Services and how Outposts fit in the DOD landscape
    Buying COTS hardware through AWS streamlines procurement and compliance
    Policy-driven cluster lifecycle management that makes edge nodes easy to replace and standardize
    Cost-optimization tactics that preserve security across environments
    A real-world “cloud-to-edge” DOD use case

Enabling Mission-Critical Edge for DOD with AWS + Spectro Cloud: Secure, Simple Kubernetes Anywhere

The fifth-annual State of Production Kubernetes study captures the voices of 455 platform engineers, devops professionals, architects and SREs. 
In this fast-paced 45-minute session, we’ll lead you through the highlights and key data points that will shape your  K8s roadmap in 2025.

Discover:
* Why multi-cloud, multi-environment is the new norm for enterprise K8s — and how that’s exacerbating cost and governance challenges
* The impact of AI on cluster growth, edge projects and operations
* The latest on VMware exit ramps and KubeVirt’s growing penetration
* The reality of operational outcomes in today’s platform teams, and the best practices that are leading pioneers to success.

Why attend?
Get hard numbers, trend context and actionable benchmarks you can put in front of your stakeholders the same day, before you download the full report to grab the charts. Expect zero sales pitch, all research.

Inside the 2025 State of Production Kubernetes: AI, edge and multicloud benchmarks unpacked

Join us for a hands-on deep dive into building rock-solid resilience for modern Kubernetes environments.
We’ll start with the must-know foundations of Kubernetes backup, disaster recovery and compliance, then explore real-world pitfalls that simple snapshots or open-source Velero can miss. 
You’ll learn how deploying CloudCasa through Spectro Cloud Palette delivers enterprise-grade, policy-driven protection across multicluster environments.
Next, we’ll tackle an emerging challenge: safeguarding virtual-machine workloads running on Kubernetes through KubeVirt solutions like Palette VMO. We’ll share the experiences of a large software company that recently went through this exact situation.
We’ll wrap up with a live demo showcasing deployment, backup, and recovery for both containers and virtual machines — so you leave with clear, actionable strategies you can use in your own Kubernetes environment.

Kubernetes backup & recovery deep dive: DR and VM protection with Spectro Cloud Palette & CloudCasa

Running Kubernetes clusters across public clouds, data centers, bare metal and the edge is now the norm — but it multiplies operational risk and toil. 

In this fast-paced session, experts from Spectro Cloud and TeraSky share field-tested approaches to tame multi-cluster, multi-cloud fleets, from Day 0 design through Day 2 optimization.

We’ll cover:
* The adoption trends in K8s, including how GPU-heavy AI and edge workloads are reshaping your roadmap
* Strategies to control cost, security and drift at enterprise scale
* Cautionary tales and quick wins from Fortune 500 Kubernetes deployments

Walk away with practical guidance you can apply immediately to run Kubernetes with confidence in any environment.

Mastering enterprise Kubernetes: real-world strategies

Across DOD and federal civilian agencies, the spotlight is on cost efficiency and radical modernization. For CIOs and IT leaders, midway through a multi-year evolution towards modern cloud native practices, this is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because there’s never been more opportunity to drive change; a curse because with change comes risk.

By running VMs side-by-side with containers, we’ve seen organizations achieve cost savings not only in licensing and infrastructure deduplication, but also through harmonized processes and governance and greater agility to meet changing mandates.

In this webinar, we'll discuss static, legacy VM workloads, trapped in legacy virtualized data centers with hefty license fees. We’ll show you how to migrate VMs at scale to operate directly in Kubernetes clusters on bare metal, in the cloud or even at the edge.

Rethinking VM environments: reducing the footprint, not replacing it

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the tactical edge in military operations. This session will address the unique challenges and innovative solutions for deploying mission capabilities in austere environments. Industry experts from Vertosoft, Spectro Cloud, and CALIBRE Systems will share their expertise on modern IT practices, effective Kubernetes deployment, and the critical role of interoperability and collaboration in overcoming these obstacles. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and enhance your understanding of cutting-edge military technology.

Navigating the tactical edge: insights from industry experts

There’s no shortage of content out there about how to secure your Kubernetes clusters. But what you probably haven’t heard is the attacker’s perspective.

Join us for this exclusive webinar with KTrust, a provider of automated “red team” security for K8s, based on the principle that the best way to protect your business is to think like your enemy.

We’ll explore:

* The most common Kubernetes attack vectors we see in the wild today, and show you a demo of common attacks like container breakout, privilege escalation and secret extraction

* The modern security approach you need to take to be successful today: preemptive and proactive at detection and remediation, including a live demo of how to put this approach into action

* Which security components you really need in your K8s environments, and the best way to deploy them consistently at scale

Don’t miss this opportunity to get a new, vital perspective on the security of your cloud-native infrastructure.

Securing Kubernetes: the attacker’s point of view

Public sector, defense, healthcare, financial services... many different industries set high standards for infrastructure security, privacy and governance, and these standards have huge implications for your Kubernetes environments.

In this webinar we'll take a tour of Spectro Cloud's Palette VerteX, a Kubernetes management platform designed specifically to meet security requirements in DoD and regulated industries. We'll spotlight features such as:

* Support for airgapped and high side environments
* Deploying to government clouds in AWS and Azure
* FIPS cryptography from management plane to cluster
* Choice of hardened OS, distributions and software packages available
* Native security scans and audit logging
* CONUS technical support

We'll share real-world examples of how agencies and businesses are using Palette VerteX to simplify how they manage K8s clusters in regulated environments, and show you how you can get started.

Managing Kubernetes in regulated environments: Palette VerteX

Many organizations have placed their bets on Kubernetes and cloud native as the future for their application infrastructure — and not just for containers, but traditional VMs, too.

In this webinar, we'll explore the strategies and best practices you’ll need to bring your VMs to K8s, drawn from real experiences helping enterprises migrate to KubeVirt in production. You'll learn:

* What's new with KubeVirt, what it's good at — and where there are still gaps
* How to speed up and de-risk the migration of thousands or tens of thousands of VMs from vSphere to KubeVirt
* Why 'migrate' should be the last step in your application triage
* How you can draw on outside services and a new generation of tools to help your project succeed

VMs on K8s: making your KubeVirt migration happen

As enterprises seek to modernize their infrastructure, migrating applications to containerized environments can be complex — especially when managing workloads across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments. 

AWS and Spectro Cloud are partnering to simplify and accelerate this journey, helping organizations seamlessly transition from legacy systems to modern Kubernetes-powered infrastructure.

Join us for this exclusive webinar, where experts from AWS and Spectro Cloud will share insights on:
* Best practices for migrating and modernizing workloads with Kubernetes
* How to leverage AWS services and Spectro Cloud’s automation for seamless deployment
* Real-world use cases showcasing success from edge to cloud
* Q&A with industry experts

Whether you’re just starting your container migration journey or looking to optimize existing deployments, this session will provide actionable strategies to help you modernize with confidence.

Accelerating migrations to modernized containers, from edge to cloud

Kubernetes is everywhere in today’s enterprise; data centers, clouds, the edge. But how do you manage it all?

A whole class of product called enterprise Kubernetes management platform has emerged to fill this need.

In this webinar we’ll be joined by tech analysts GigaOm to explore the state of the art in K8s management platforms for edge to cloud, drawing on insights from two recent 2025 Radar Reports. 

You'll learn the required capabilities and criteria that you should be looking for in your vendor selections, and gain insights into how you can better manage your Kubernetes infrastructure at scale.

Choosing a Kubernetes management platform: the analyst perspective

Air gapped environments are a necessity in many mission scenarios — and a constant management headache for IT operations teams.
In this webinar, Mike Wood and Tommy Scherer from Spectro Cloud will explore how you can use Kubernetes to create and operate secure and consistent application environments, across both high-impact airgapped and low-side connected environments.
You’ll take away best practices covering:
Infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines and configuration management
Image and data synchronization mechanisms such as mirror registries
Monitoring and logging using ELK, Prometheus and Grafana
Security practices and compliance, including permissions and network policies
Business continuity, including backup and recovery
Expect deep technical insight and real-world examples to bring the concepts to life.

Crossing the Chasm: Using Kubernetes to Overcome Air Gap Challenges

As a retailer, you know all too well the value edge computing promises for all kinds of use cases — many of which can now be supercharged with the addition of AI models right in the store or warehouse, built on the familiar foundation of Kubernetes and cloud-native development.

If your edge initiatives have kicked into high gear this year, you’ve probably already started planning for the many challenges you’ll face. Edge computing presents unique security risks, and requires a whole new approach to managing the hardware and software stack throughout its lifecycle. 

Join us for this webinar to hear the latest insights and best practices from edge computing veterans from CDW’s retail team and the edge Kubernetes ninjas at Spectro Cloud. We’ll cover:

- The most impactful use cases for AI-powered retail edge in 2024, from video monitoring to supply chain management
- Top operational considerations for your edge computing project, including how to minimize the cost of field engineering, assure availability, and protect your data and proprietary models
- Approaches to managing edge computing deployments in retail locations with limited connectivity or even in air gapped sites

You’ll take away real examples and hard-earned best practices that you can put to work immediately in your projects. And if you need a shortcut to edge success, we’ll also share how CDW’s services, plus Spectro Cloud’s Palette Edge management platform, can help you get started.

Retail edge computing: Unlocking value with Kubernetes and AI

Last year Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware created turmoil in the industry as Broadcom set about transforming VMware’s product portfolio, pricing, and even channel partnerships.

Enterprises are naturally wondering about the macro impact on virtualization as a computing paradigm — is it time to look for another vSphere, or to jump ship to new generations of containers and bare metal?

But many are also more critically looking for practical guidance about alternative solutions and strategies that they can investigate in the short and medium terms.  

In this webinar, Jeremy Oakey from Spectro Cloud will sit down with Jared Cheney from SoftwareONE to: 
- Recap the current state of play and what they’re hearing from customers and partners on one of the hottest topics in the industry. 
- Share perspectives on the impact the Broadcom acquisition is having on enterprises
- Explore how Kubernetes and cloud native come into the mix, using real, tangible stories from the “field”.

Whatever your level of commitment and investment to VMware, don’t miss this opportunity to consider the big picture and guide your strategy in the right direction.

After VMware… What’s next?

Broadcom’s takeover of VMware has caused chaos in the world of application infrastructure — but if (like many platform engineering teams) you’re already committed to being container-first and cloud native, the disruption is just validation that you already made the right decision.

Still, VM workloads aren’t going away, whether in the cloud and data center, or even at the edge. 

You know that you’re not looking for another vSphere to migrate to. But what if you could bring those VMs into Kubernetes and run and manage them with the same cloud-native patterns you use to manage your containers?

In this webinar we’ll show you the best way to make a new home for your VMs in Kubernetes.

We’ll explore:
* The different technology options available to you, from roll-your-own open source KubeVirt to megavendor stacks and HCI platforms
- The key features you need to look for to satisfy your use case, whether you’re using Kubernetes in the data center or in edge computing deployments
- A live tour of Spectro Cloud Palette’s Virtual Machine Orchestrator (VMO) capability, showing how you can model, deploy and manage VM workloads alongside containers in all your clusters and environments
- How to painlessly migrate your existing VMs, minimizing downtime and stress for you and the application teams you work with

The clock is ticking. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the best-in-class solutions for VMs on Kubernetes.

The new home for your VMs: Kubernetes

Infusing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into data and applications at the edge has the potential to transform operations at Federal civilian agencies and in national defense. But edge environments can be challenging to manage at scale, and sensitive data and AI stacks are vulnerable to attack.

Join Spectro Cloud and Hitachi Vantara Federal in this webinar to discuss the keys to effective use of AI at the edge.

We’ll cover:
- The use cases driving edge and AI together in public sector, and examples of the impact they are having on real mission outcomes today
- The challenges of deploying and managing edge computing in defense and federal environments, from security to connectivity, scale and interoperability
- Approaches to managing the lifecycle of edge devices and the data that they gather, both locally and centralized in the cloud, and why data provenance and lineage are so critical
- A best practice architecture for building edge AI deployments on open platforms like Kubernetes, plus Spectro Cloud Palette and Hitachi Vantara Pentaho

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the cutting edge of edge AI from the experts that are making it happen.

Advancing AI at the edge to transform missions

Kubernetes is everywhere in today’s enterprise; data centers, clouds, the edge. The benefits are there, but one question remains: how do you manage it all? 

As more and more organizations are moving from experimenting with containers and Kubernetes to operationalizing at scale, they are considering solutions to increase efficiency, manage cost and future proof their investments, across heterogeneous environments. A whole class of product called enterprise Kubernetes management platform has emerged to fill this need.

Part of their decision-making is balancing their business requirements with the technical capabilities vendors have to offer; to meet the needs of the now without constraining the future.

In this webinar we’ll be joined by Howard Holton, CTO at tech analysts GigaOm, and Cornelia Davis, technology fellow at Spectro Cloud. They’ll explore what enterprise Kubernetes means — without the hype — and drill into the required capabilities and criteria that organizations are really looking for.

If you’re investigating better ways to manage your Kubernetes infrastructure at scale, don’t miss out on this session.

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