Name: Deep Dive with AWS: Optimizing Costs with Cloud Financial Management
Start: 2021-10-05T13:00:00Z
End: 2021-10-05T13:00:46.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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CloudHealth is the world’s most trusted software platform for accelerating business transformation in the cloud. Now part of VMware, CloudHealth is the platform of choice for more than 10,000 organizations globally that rely on it to manage cost, ensure security compliance, improve governance and automate actions across multicloud environments.

How can businesses optimize their infrastructure and harness the power of the public cloud to unleash innovation?

Join this panel discussion on:
-Creating a Cloud Center of Excellence

Rebroadcast: Accelerate Digital Transformation with a Cloud Center of Excellence

This session will explore how one of the largest HR service providers in the world optimizes cloud cost across a massive global environment. Speaker Alexis Pelliterri will review how he and his team – with a scope that spans 25+ countries – effectively manage their multicloud infrastructure costs, with a focus on the following topics: creating a balanced scorecard that reflects key KPIs, strategies for providing visibility to internal customers across functional departments, as well as best practices for managing spend in AWS vs GCP.

Managing Multicloud Cost at Randstad

The speed, scalability, and self-service nature of the cloud enables organizations to deliver services faster than ever before. But it also requires new ways of ensuring compliance and control, especially when operating in a multi-cloud environment. 

In this session, we'll focus on key operational optimization techniques for public cloud infrastructure, including how to build guardrails to ensure compliance within your organization. You will also learn how CloudHealth integrates with vRealize Operations and vRealize Automation to provide complete visibility into your multi-cloud environment for seamless app deployment, monitoring, and cost optimization.

Join:
Shrivatsa Upadhye, Senior Technical Marketing Architect, VMware
Tim George, Technical Marketing Manager, VMware

Operationalizing Your Multi-Cloud Part 3: Multi-Cloud Governance and Operations

Compute reservations are one of the best ways to optimize public cloud usage and costs. But with so many choices across public cloud providers, it's difficult to know what options are best for your business. 

In this session, we'll explain the difference between several types of compute reservations in the public cloud and demonstrate how you can select the best option for your organization.

Operationalizing Your Public Cloud Part 2: Understanding Compute Reservations

Do you feel like your public cloud costs are increasing drastically, but you don't have complete visibility into where and why?

In this session, we'll show you how CloudHealth can help you gain complete visibility into multi-cloud costs, accurately track and forecast budgets, and drive financial accountability across your teams, projects, and business units.

Operationalizing Your Public Cloud Part 1: Gain Complete Visibility

The realities of the past year fundamentally changed the way organizations invest in the cloud. Organizations had a renewed focus on resiliency and efficiency, while also accelerating digital transformation efforts and innovation. 

In this general session, we’ll share our vision for the CloudHealth solution portfolio, discuss best practices for taking your cloud management maturity to the next level, and highlight new product releases over the past year.

Join: 
Apolak Borthakur, Vice President, Product Leader, CloudHealth by VMware
John McLoughlin, Senior Director, Product Management, CloudHealth by VMware
Jason Needham, Senior Director, Product Management, CloudHealth by VMware

Adapting to a Faster-Paced, Cloud-Centric World

The battle among the leading cloud providers, commonly known as ‘the cloud wars,’ continues to heat up as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure continue to innovate and scale. 

In this session, CloudHealth by VMware Product Managers will share tagging and financial management best practices across these clouds. Learn more about the resource hierarchy nuances in each cloud, and how it ties back to your tagging governance and chargeback processes.

Join: 
Lucas Paratore, Senior Product Manager, CloudHealth by VMware
Jeevan Prabhu, Product Line Manager, CloudHealth by VMware

Tagging for Governance and Chargeback in a Multi-Cloud World

You know that you can significantly reduce the probability of data breaches by simply configuring cloud correctly. But how do you really operationalize and automate a process that developers can leverage to fix and prevent misconfigured cloud services? Attend this session to learn how to:

- Get better visibility into misconfiguration risks & developer mistakes
- Translate security and compliance requirements into company specific policies
- Prioritize security findings based on risk & business needs
- Engage developers to analyze, fix, and prevent misconfigurations
- Build a feedback loop to optimize cloud security posture management

Join: 
Tai Train, Director, Product Management, Cloud Security Solutions, VMware
Nikhil Girdhar, Group Product Marketing Manager, Cloud Security Solutions, VMware

Detection to Proactive Remediation: Operationalizing Cloud Security Posture Mgmt

According to Gartner, over 75% of enterprises will have adopted a multi or hybrid cloud strategy by 2021, up from 30% in 2018.1This shift is a result of the autonomy that developers gain in a decentralized cloud environment, but the increase in agility and flexibility that comes with the cloud is a double edged sword; a multi-cloud environment can introduce unexpected complexity that jeopardizes your ability to understand costs and ensure compliance with policies and regulations. Join Mike Giacometti, Senior Product Manager, to learn why CloudHealth by VMware is the global leader in multi-cloud management solutions. We’ll share how CloudHealth provides:
·         Visibility into costs and usage across all public and private clouds
·         Trusted recommendations for optimizing your environment to cut costs
·         Robust governance tools for non-technical users to set policies and automate when needed
·         Graphical reports and dashboards to inform key stakeholders
 
1Gartner Predicts 2019: Increasing Reliance on Cloud Computing Transforms IT and Business Practices, 13 December 2018

Mike is a Sr. Product Manager at VMware with a primary focus and passion for cloud management for the enterprise as well as cloud economics and financial management.

Multiple Clouds. One Solution. Driving Governance and Optimization in the Cloud

Are you trying to transform your organization into a savvy cloud security shop? The transformation isn’t just tech, but also people, processes, and ownership. In this session we discuss some of the changes, processes, and tools that VMware has used to transform its cloud security org.

7 Steps to Maintain Security Across Your Cloud Estate

Featured speaker and Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, Tracy Woo, will join Amber Gregorio, Senior Product Marketing Manager at CloudHealth by VMware, to discuss recent trends in cloud investment and best practices to keep costs in check.

With This Webinar, You’ll Learn:
- Cloud spend trends from 2020, including analysis on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and predictions for 2021
- Insights from The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management and Optimization, Q4 2020 report
- Prescriptive recommendations for successful cloud financial management and cost optimization
- Important considerations when choosing a cloud cost management and optimization solution

Deep Dive Featuring Forrester Research: Taking Control of Cloud Costs

Hear how some of the biggest names in the business adopt a digital-first approach with cloud financial management

Take Your FinOps Strategy To The Next Level
CloudHealth by VMware, in partnership with the FinOps Foundation, is delighted to bring you the second session of the Faster to the Future with FinOps series.

Getting engineering teams to care about cost optimization can be challenging. That’s why we’re bringing together the best in the business to discuss how they’re incentivizing engineering teams to participate in FinOps best practices in an ever-changing multi-cloud world.

Join our panel session to hear customers share strategies and tactics for engaging engineering teams from across the organization in cloud financial management.

J.R Storment Executive Director, FinOps | Rob Migliore Sr Director, Cloud, Trimble | Jonathan Morin Product Line Manager, CloudHealth by VMware | Riley Jenkins Sr. SRE/FinOps Architect DOMO

Accelerating Cloud Cost Optimization with Engineering Buy-In

This session will showcase Robert Half's efforts to develop an internal quarterly business review (QBR) process
to reduce cloud expenses and to apply cost optimization best practices across the enterprise. Expanding upon
the CloudHealth QBR process, the Robert Half Cloud Center of Excellence has developed a repeatable process for
identifying cost-saving opportunities and ensuring that action is taken on them. 

This session will provide information on how the process was started, how it continues to evolve, and how other companies can develop their own processes. Attendees will also get insight into the metrics and reports that Robert Half is leveraging to lower costs across Robert Half’s 200+ accounts.

Stop Wasting Money in the Cloud

85% of organisations are working towards, or already working with, a multi-cloud architecture. But along with the benefits of multi-cloud - including increased reliability, flexibility and reduced DDoS attacks - comes unique challenges.

Join episode 9 of Digital Transformation in Action, where host Alex Hilton and guests discuss how best to overcome these challenges, including:

- How to navigate increased operational complexity, including standardisation
- Understanding complicated cost models and billing
- Knowing which cloud provider is best for your workload
- Managing and implementing additional security and governance

Host:
- Alex Hilton - CEO, Cloud Industry Forum

Panellists:
- Rachel Dines, Senior Director for Product Marketing, CloudHealth by VMware
- Sean McAvan - Managing Director, EMEA - Navisite
- Graham Bromham - Head of Cloud & Managed Service Provider Sales, Fujitsu UK

The Multi-Cloud Maze: Making the Right Cloud Choice

Multi-cloud’s time has arrived. According to recent surveys, 85% of organizations are working towards, or already working with, a multi-cloud architecture. What are the benefits multi-cloud can bring to your organization, and what do you need to know to ensure success?

Join this expert panel where cloud leaders from around the globe share insights and tips on how to overcome multi-cloud challenges so that you can reap the benefits - including increased reliability, flexibility and reduced DDoS attacks. 

Points of discussion will include: 
- Knowing which cloud provider is best for your workload
- How to navigate increased operational complexity, including standardization
- Understanding complicated cost models and billing
- Managing and implementing additional security and governance

Speakers: 
Diana Kelley, Partner, Security Curve
Chris Kranz, EMEA SE Manager, Sysdig
Mike Giacometti, Senior Product Manager, CloudHealth by VMware
Mohit Tiwari, CEO and Co-Founder of Symmetry Systems

Thriving in a Multi-Cloud World: Strategies for Success

For years, flexible business practices, enabled through efficient cloud technology, have been touted as the future of multiple service industries. Entirely remote operations, highly specialised, cost-effective resourcing for various teams and inter-departmental transparency have been the primary end goals of almost all cloud strategies.

The Financial Times - Optimising Cloud to Survive the Crisis

Join AWS and CloudHealth by VMware for practical recommendations to build an effective Cloud Financial Management practice.

This discussion will cover:
-How to create a culture of accountability around cloud costs
-Why AWS introduced Cloud Financial Management to the AWS Well-Architected Framework
-Practices that have helped organizations like yours evolve their cloud financial management strategy
-The new AWS services and features available to help your organization implement an effective Cloud Financial Management practice

Deep Dive with AWS: Optimizing Costs with Cloud Financial Management

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