Name: Deep Dive Featuring Forrester Research: Taking Control of Cloud Costs
Start: 2021-04-07T23:59:00Z
End: 2021-04-07T23:59:41.000Z
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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.

Join us for Blue-Sky Thinking, a new virtual discussion hosted by The Economist Events. Tech leaders will outline lessons learned from the covid 19 pandemic, including best practices and how to redesign businesses around cloud-based strategies.

Covid-19 has highlighted the need for corporations to be agile and quick to adapt to unexpected shocks. Although digitisation was well underway before the outbreak, covid-19 changed how companies use cloud-based platforms and services.

Digital technologies played a crucial role in keeping the lights on, enabling remote working, and ensuring companies met the needs of their communities.

As uncertainty continues about how long covid-19 will linger, organisations must continue to pursue resilience and agility. Decision-makers will have tough choices to make about resources, budgets and suitable governance frameworks. A close eye must be kept on business needs, costs and performance so technology investments deliver clear value. Cyber-security must stay high on the agenda, especially as hackers and savvy criminals get better at breaching firewalls and safeguards. The to-do list is long and daunting: where to start?

Our virtual event will ask:

What lessons have been learned from covid-19?
How do approaches differ based on company size, industry, and geography?
How do benefits compare to the costs across a business?
What are the organisational structures and talent needed to deliver value?
What are the key metrics for evaluating success?

Hear from our speakers:

Kenneth Cukier, Senior Editor and host of Babbage podcast, The Economist. 
Chris Barker, Cloud and Platform Technology, Deutsche Bank. 
Joe Kinsella, Vice-President, and Chief Technology Officer, CloudHealth by VMware. 
Gleb Shaviner, Vice-president, Digital Product—Predix cloud and enterprise platform, GE Digital. 
Johan Krebbers, Vice-President, IT innovation; General Manager, emerging digital technologies, Shell

Blue-sky thinking: The present and future of cloud computing

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

The Multi-Cloud Maze: Making the Right Cloud Choice

Most security breaches in the cloud are the result of simple configuration errors, and many organizations struggle to enforce policies on secure usage to avoid these mistakes. 

Oracle and KPMG’s 2020 Cloud Threat Report found that 92% of respondents believe their organization has a gap between the rate of cloud adoption and the maturity of their cloud security and compliance processes.

This session will share some practical examples to showcase how to:

- Get the right security visibility and context to educate developers 
- Quantify cloud security and compliance posture through KPIs
- Detect Day 2 misconfiguration mistakes 
- Remediate misconfigurations before a criminal exploits them
- Proactively integrate Day 0 security and compliance into the DevOps process

Hear from our speakers:

- Nikhil Girdhar, Product Line Marketing Manager, VMware by Cloudhealth.
- Shrivatsa Upadhye, Senior Technical Marketing Architect, VMware by Cloudhealth.

Using KPIs to Build Confidence in Cloud Security & Compliance Posture

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

[Panel] The Path to Successful Multi-Cloud Management

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?

Deep Dive with AWS-Optimsing Costs with Cloud Financial Management

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.

Optimising Cloud to Survive the Crisis

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

A Practitioner’s Guide to Cloud Security and Compliance Processes

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.

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

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.

7 Steps to Maintain Security Across Your Cloud Estate

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

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.

Stop Wasting Money in the Cloud

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.

In 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

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