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Mary is responsible for the financial, HR and legal operations at Fairwinds. Her experience includes CFO roles with Foley, Storwize (IBM), Virtual Iron (Oracle) and Ucentric (Motorola). She holds a B.S. in Accounting from University of Illinois and an MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern University.

Featured 9 minute read| October 29, 2026

You Might Be a Kubernetes Person If…

There are people who work with Kubernetes sometimes.

Managed Kubernetes 6 minute read| August 28, 2026

What Does It Cost to Get Kubernetes Operations Wrong?

Kubernetes operations carry costs beyond infrastructure spend. The question is whether your organization has the ownership, expertise, and capacity to operate production...

Managed Kubernetes 9 minute read| July 15, 2026

How To Spend More Time On Platform Development & Less On Dev Support

Most organizations hire DevOps and SRE teams to shape how software runs on Kubernetes. The impact of that work shows up across platform, architecture, and product leadership,...

General 16 minute read| April 2, 2026

How Do I Make Kubernetes Self‑Service Without Losing Control?

Platform teams are under pressure to move faster, but handing full Kubernetes access to every developer is risky. Self‑service and control are not opposites; they are two...

General 11 minute read| March 19, 2026

When Do We Actually Need a Kubernetes Platform Team?

Many teams start by running Kubernetes with a few enthusiastic engineers and some shared clusters. As those clusters become critical to your operations, you eventually have...

General 10 minute read| March 10, 2026

How MSPs Bridge the Gap Between Cloud Potential and Day‑to‑Day Reality

Managed service providers (MSPs) bridge the gap between what the cloud makes possible and what most organizations can realistically run, secure, and scale with their current...

Featured 11 minute read| December 22, 2025

Understanding AWS End of Service Life Is a Key FinOps Responsibility

It’s been a while since Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced extended support prices for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and by now, most of us have felt its impact...

Managed Kubernetes 8 minute read| October 29, 2025

Planning Your 2026 Budget for Managed Services: Approval Strategies That Work

As 2025 draws to a close, IT and business leaders face a shrinking window to proactively secure managed services budget approval for 2026. In a year shaped by volatility,...

General 7 minute read| October 2, 2025

5 Ways Kubernetes Enables a Seamless Omnichannel Shopping Experience

Retailers today are rushing to deliver truly seamless omnichannel experiences, where it doesn’t matter if a customer is shopping in-store, online, or from a mobile app. Why?...

Managed Kubernetes 10 minute read| September 3, 2025

Why Misconceptions About Cloud Managed Services Can Cost You

Scaling Kubernetes isn’t just about launching containers—it’s about choosing support models that truly let developers innovate instead of drowning in operational noise....

General 9 minute read| August 21, 2025

Peak Traffic: No Problem for Retailers with the Right Infrastructure

Peak shopping seasons are both a massive opportunity and a major stress test for retailers. Whether lines are surging in-store or users are clicking that “buy now” button in...

General 8 minute read| June 20, 2025

Enterprise Kubernetes Explained: How to Leverage K8s Effectively

Enterprise Kubernetes management is at the heart of modern cloud-native strategies, enabling organizations to deploy, scale, and govern applications effectively. In 2025,...