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Is your cloud bill a sneak attack? Discover the 5 Cloud Mistakes—from ignoring security compliance (POPIA/FSCA) to letting multi-cloud turn into a "digital spiderweb"—that are crippling South African fintechs. Learn the Kinetic Skunk tips for fixing legacy debt and achieving predictable growth.

For fintechs, trust depends on uptime — every transaction must work flawlessly. This article explores how financial technology companies can migrate to AWS without downtime, protecting both performance and reputation. Discover resilience-first strategies like automation, blue/green deployments, and compliance-by-design that turn cloud migration into a strategic advantage rather than a risk.

Discover how Komodor’s Claudia AI revolutionizes Kubernetes reliability through autonomous issue detection, investigation, and remediation powered by multi-agent AI systems.

Discover how Splunk’s Steve Flanders drives innovation in observability through OpenTelemetry, enabling vendor-neutral telemetry, scalable data pipelines, and AI-driven insights for cloud-native system reliability.

Facing massive Broadcom price hikes, a $2 billion enterprise replaced VMware Tanzu with Spectro Cloud Palette and CloudCasa. Discover how this move is saving costs, boosting developer experience, and paving the way to migrate 500 VM workloads to Kubernetes using Palette VMO.

Docker’s Hardened Images (DHI) are secured by a dual approach: human expertise backed by AI. Discover how Docker’s internal AI guardrail spotted a critical logic flaw in an nginx-exporter update, blocked the release, and contributed the fix upstream, proving AI is the best force multiplier for security architects

Docker is simplifying Kubernetes security! Discover how new Helm charts in the Docker Hardened Images (DHI) Catalog give users a secure, compliance-ready alternative after the Broadcom/Bitnami changes. Deploy DHI by default, ensuring SLSA Level 3 security and SLA-backed patching for every Kubernetes workload.

The cost of security shouldn't limit protection. Docker now offers unlimited access to its Hardened Images (DHI) catalog via an affordable subscription. Get near-zero CVEs, a 95% smaller attack surface, and SRLabs-validated security with SBOM/VEX support for every team, from ML workloads to FedRAMP-ready environments.

Start your DHI trial strong! This guide shows how Docker Hardened Images move you to near-zero CVEs in 3 steps. We compared official Node.js to DHI and found a 100% vulnerability elimination (25 CVEs to 0), a 90% package reduction, and 41% smaller images, validating the compliance benefits with Docker Scout and SBOMs.

IBM Instana needed to secure access to its sensitive cloud infrastructure while boosting developer agility. Discover why they chose Teleport to replace VPNs and shared credentials, simplifying compliance audits (SOC 2, FedRAMP) and eliminating management overhead across their rapidly scaling, multi-cloud environment.

Rush Street Interactive strengthened its multi-cloud security by adopting Teleport’s unified access platform, replacing SSH keys and VPN friction with short-lived credentials, SSO, RBAC, and reverse tunnels. The result: faster onboarding, reduced attack surface, streamlined compliance, and highly secure access for both engineers and automation workflows.

Microsoft mitigated a record 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack launched by the AISURU botnet, revealing rising IoT-driven threats and growing risks to cloud services.