The Multi-Cloud Maze: Making the Right Cloud Choice

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

Panelists:
- 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

Does everyone in your business understand how their decisions impact cloud costs and business outcomes? As usage grows, it’s critical to ensure teams are able to meet development needs while adhering to budgets and driving toward a shared understanding of business goals. The tools you need to understand cloud costs and usage are available, but getting started can be overwhelming.

Join AWS and CloudHealth by VMware to learn how to create a culture of cost accountability and ensure that everyone in your organization is working efficiently together to drive the most value. In this webinar we’ll explore the following questions:

- How do I motivate the right people to prioritize shared business goals?
- Who should I bring to the table to affect cultural change?
- What can I do to drive the right outcomes in our cloud journey?

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.

Join this session to learn about:

- Common vulnerabilities and threats that increase security and compliance risks
- Balancing governance needs with the flexibility necessary to drive developer productivity
- Specific steps to measure and improve security posture
- Lessons learned from scaling these processes to support a growing cloud environment

According to Gartner, over 75% of enterprises will have adopted a multi or hybrid cloud strategy by 2021, up from 30% in 2018. This 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

Gartner 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.

Are you trying to transform your organisation 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.

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.

With some calling multi-cloud ‘the new normal’, more and more companies are moving towards a multi-cloud future. The benefits of a multi-cloud strategy - including reducing vendor lock in and capitalizing on different cloud providers’ strengths - however, take some time to become apparent.

This panel takes a closer look at how to make the path to successful multi-cloud management as straightforward and clear as possible. From how to manage conflicting infrastructure and serverless applications, to workflow portability, join cloud experts as they discuss:

- Multi Cloud management myths and reality
- How Kubernetes based tools can smooth over some of the bumps
- Managing native services in a centralized manner

Moderator:
Jeanne Morain - Tech Executive, Founder of iSpeak Cloud

Panellists:
Simon Ratcliffe - Principal Consultant, Ensono
George Hamilton - Senior Product Line Marketing Manager, CloudHealth by VMWare
Nital Gandhi - Founder, BOIT Consulting

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 the metrics and reports that Robert Half is leveraging to
lower costs across Robert Half’s 200+ accounts.

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

Panelists:
- 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