Opsani, a provider of a cloud service that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to help organizations reduce cloud costs, announced it will make Opsani AI available free for the next three months to organizations that have deployed Kubernetes in the cloud as long as they are spending more than $100,000 a month on cloud services. Company CEO Ross Schibler says this initiative, dubbed Project Vital, represents an effort to help organizations preserve headcount at a time when the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is requiring organizations to dramatically reduce headcounts. By enabling organizations to more efficiently scale down Kubernetes infrastructure resources, many of those organizations may be able to reduce their number of layoffs. At the same time, Schibler notes there are some organizations in, for example, the entertainment and education services segment that are being asked to maximize existing cloud resources to support increased use of applications. In either scenario, IT teams are now being asked to cope with an unprecedented amount of uncertainty, he says.