Spot Elastigroup and Spot Ocean are now available on Google Cloud Marketplace

We are thrilled to announce that Spot Elastigroup and Spot Ocean for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) are now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace, reinforcing NetApp’s commitment to providing customers with a more streamlined way to consume its CloudOps solutions and invest in intelligent automation to maximize efficiency across their infrastructure and teams. Furthermore, for Google Cloud users with Google Cloud Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) to decrement, all purchases of Spot Elastigroup and Spot Ocean for GKE through the Google Cloud Marketplace will automatically count towards their Google Cloud committed use minimum, opening up a wide range of options for their organizations to make the most of the budget that’s already been allocated to the Google Cloud platform and services.

CloudOps teams are under increased pressure to do more with less

DevOps and Platform Engineering teams are too often tasked with operating their VM-based and containerized workloads on high-performance, reliable infrastructure, either manually or with limited automation. Furthermore, the pressure to move faster and accelerate deployments frequently comes at the expense of the business’ budgetary requirements.

And with more and more Cloud Architects and DevOps Engineers also navigating the shift towards delivering the next generation of modern infrastructure that’s optimized for AI and container-based applications, the tendency to compromise cost optimization in the name of application performance has only compounded.

With this shift towards bringing more modernized applications online, it’s no surprise that Kubernetes orchestration services such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) have gained in popularity. And while these containerization technologies may drive application efficiency and simplify application deployment and management, as previously mentioned these benefits are often diminished by growing infrastructure complexity and cost. This problem is especially prevalent for infrastructure comprised of diverse resource profiles and high numbers of clusters and node pools. Furthermore, development teams often lack the experience needed to request optimal infrastructure for their applications, leaving already overburdened DevOps teams scrambling to anticipate and react to their users’ demands. The end result is often either improperly or under-resourced applications or overprovisioning of nodes.

But there is a solution.

Automation is the key that unlocks continuous infrastructure optimization

According to a survey of cloud operations professionals, the majority (96%) of those with current investments in automation reported a myriad of benefits, including but not limited to: improved reliability and uptime (64%), cost savings (58%), and faster deployment time (56%), underscoring the use case for automation for both VM and containerized workloads.

This is where Spot Elastigroup and Spot Ocean for GKE—purpose built for automating the provisioning and optimization of Google Cloud infrastructure—can enable Google Cloud users to reap maximum benefits from their Google Cloud compute resources, optimize Google Cloud operations, and enable the delivery of mission-critical applications and production workloads at scale with more ease, confidence, and speed.

Get automated Google Cloud infrastructure optimization with Spot by NetApp

Spot by NetApp’s application-aware, AI/ML-powered predictive provisioning and scaling of Google Cloud infrastructure enables organizations to more cost effectively and efficiently provision and manage their VM and containerized infrastructure at scale, transparently and with low effort.

For VM-based infrastructure, Spot Elastigroup enables CloudOps teams to maximize performance by leveraging automated provisioning and scaling, tapping into surplus cloud capacity with Spot VMs wherever possible for even the most complex workloads. Using AI-driven selection and predictive rebalancing of all cloud pricing models—Spot, on-demand and reserved capacity—Spot Elastigroup makes it easy and hands-free to reliably use Spot VMs, while also delivering lightning fast autoscaling and enterprise level availability.

For those running containerized workloads, Spot Ocean for GKE enables organizations to more cost effectively and efficiently provision and manage their Kubernetes infrastructure. Spot Ocean solves many of the challenges that come with building applications with Kubernetes: balancing performance, reliability, and cost; automating and simplifying infrastructure management; and improving continuous deployment of applications at scale. It works by continuously analyzing how workloads are using the underlying infrastructure. Ocean then automatically scales compute resources to maximize utilization and availability, leveraging the optimal blend of pricing models and resource types.

Regardless of the type of workloads you’re running, discover why Google Cloud customers are using Spot Elastigroup and Spot Ocean to deliver digital innovation, while also ensuring they’re running continuously optimized infrastructure.

Check out Spot by NetApp on the Google Cloud Marketplace today!