Maestro Blog

The year is coming to the end, and it's high time for our traditional lookback on Maestro evolution, changes, and important events. The year of 2023 has been dynamic and full of updates, both technical and strategic.  We kept to our previous commitments , meanwhile adjusting to the new trends in Cloud and technologies in general.  We met our user's expectation and need for  cross-cloud FinOps, automated infrastructure analytics, security assessment and the "Fix it" button , aimed to simplify issues remediation. We also took into account the rising demand for  Open Stack-based resources, Cloud Native approaches,  AI/ML integrations .  As a result, we came up with our standard "six release per year" cycle, highlighted with the following milestones: Maestro Insights With the ML technologies growth, the amount of services offering infrastructure recommendations and analytics, grow. This is true for the public cloud providers' native services, as well as thir...

Having the detailed information about virtual infrastructure "as is" is not enough for effective infrastructure management, financial governance, security assessment, and remediation. In fact, a team can use the raw data, but if it comes to large cross-cloud infrastructures, processing it would take lots of time and effort. This is where automated and ML-empowered analytics comes to the stage. Maestro incorporates an effective approach that lets the user benefit from the analytics and recommendation mechanisms offered by the public cloud providers themselves, as well as from Maestro own tools. The outcome of the analysis are recommendations that can be used to improve virtual infrastructures in different dimensions.  The user can take not a resource-, but a recommendation-oriented view on the infrastructure, with different types of recommendations being addressed to the users with different roles and goals.  For example, security insights are addressed to security experts,...