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Sep 1, 2026

Bill-Accurate Kubernetes Cost Allocation, Now Built Into CloudBolt

CloudBolt now brings granular Kubernetes cost allocation directly into the platform. It delivers bill-level accuracy down to the container, intelligently…
 
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Tools
VMware benchmark calculator

2026 VMware customer benchmark How does your VMware situation compare to 300 enterprise peers? We surveyed 302 IT leaders at…

 
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ebooks and whitepapers
The lesson of the wasted cluster

Your Kubernetes cluster looks full. Finance is preparing for another hardware purchase. Yet CPU utilization is only 18%. In The…

 
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Blogs
How to get Slack notifications when StormForge applies recommendations

The StormForge Applier does its job quietly. It watches for recommendations, applies patches to your workloads, and moves on—no fanfare,…

 
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Blogs
When Hardware Triples in Price, Idle Capacity Becomes a Line Item.

A platform leader at a Fortune 50 company recently told his app teams something that I keep thinking about. The message was very…

 
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Blogs
StormForge vs ScaleOps: A Technical Comparison of Kubernetes Rightsizing Approaches

StormForge and ScaleOps both automate Kubernetes resource optimization, but they take meaningfully different approaches to how much control you hand over and when. This page walks through the differences in architecture, automation model,…

 
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Videos, demos, webinars
MCP support for CloudBolt CMP

Watch this 3-minute demo to see how CloudBolt CMP with MCP support lets you manage your infrastructure through simple, conversational…

 
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Blogs
What Teams Actually Need Before They’ll Let Right-Sizing Act in Production 

Most Kubernetes teams know they’re overprovisioned. The dashboards show it. The recommendations confirm it. And in most environments, the list of workloads…

 
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Blogs
Top 10 Kubecost Alternatives in 2026 

Kubecost has helped many teams understand where Kubernetes money goes, but following IBM’s 2024 acquisition, organizations are reassessing their cost management tooling. Some…

 
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Blogs
The VMware Shakeup Hits Europe Differently: Sovereignty Isn’t a Preference, It’s a Constraint 

If you’re watching the hypervisor market shift from Europe, the conversation sounds different from what it does in North America.  Not because…

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