Across the cloud, companies are embracing the capabilities of Kubernetes, with an eye toward making it run faster, smarter and cheaper.Platform9 aims to help companies cut costs and foster innovation with its Elastic Machine Pool, a new compute engine for running Kubernetes in the public cloud.“Our core bread and butter has always been about simplifying complexity and providing the best optimization to run your workloads,” said Madhura Maskasky (pictured), co-founder and vice president of product at Platform9 Systems Inc. “With EMP, you can reduce your costs of running an [Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service] cluster or a form of EKS clusters by about 50%