The Rise of FinOps

In this episode, we discuss...

• The hardware ecosystem from device to data centre and platform
• NPUs and endpoints
• Cloud platforms for AI
• Access to tools
• Future of AI – Multimodal – Multisensory - sora

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In this episode we discuss...

• Current state of cybersecurity 
• Types of AI are impacting cybersecurity
• How  bad actors are leveraging GenAI to be more productive
• What is the measurable impact of GenAI to the risk profile of businesses?
• What keeps you up at night when you think about AI as a cybersecurity risk?

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In this episode, we discuss…

• The current and expected future state of the economy
• How that state affects business investment planning
• Discuss the unique aspects and benefits of CAPEX
• Discuss the unique aspects and benefits of OPEX
• How public cloud has changed the way businesses plan spend
• How IT can communicate with the business more effectively to secure funding
• What is FinOps?
• How businesses creating financial visibility

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Join us this season as we engage with industry leaders in technical discussions around key innovations that are affecting all our lives in business, and in many cases our daily lives as well.

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In this episode, we discuss…

• How to identify the best place to operate applications
• Three best practices for looking at technology decisions
• Challenges that customers are facing with migrating workloads to the cloud, and what’s driving them to build cloud-like environments in their data centre
• Data activation over time, and how it could be a potential issue
• The need for specific talent and technologies within a multicloud environment and how businesses are leveraging managed services providers to fill the skills gap
• How does choosing where to run applications change when you’re using containers or VM-based solutions?
• Intel IT’s Multi-Cloud Strategy: Focused on the Business

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In this episode, we discuss…

• How customers are approaching security across the hybrid cloud
• Increased complexity that organizations face as they move into the hybrid cloud
• Shared responsibility model and how providers apply security controls to their services
• How remote work impacts security in the cloud
• How customers are approaching SASE solutions to provide security in the hybrid cloud
• Are applications safer in the data centre or in the public cloud?
• How identity, data loss prevention and compliance have become more challenging in the hybrid environment
• How has breach response planning evolved to include the hybrid cloud?
• What Cisco is doing to help customers speed up recovery after a breach

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In this episode, we discuss…

• What is operational trust, and why is it a roadblock for many organizations?
• How to break down barriers for organizations trying to implement infrastructure as code
• How can infrastructure as code address differences between public cloud and on-premises, VM-based solutions and container systems?
• How infrastructure as code can drive business value through repeatability
• What conversations you should be having when you start implementing infrastructure as code
• Leveraging application as code, infrastructure as code and configuration management to retain workloads in the public cloud
• How infrastructure as code helps drive the operating model in the data centre
• Supporting project managers as well as developers through self-service and predictability
• Training and retaining employees with automation and infrastructure as code

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In this episode, we discuss…

• How CDW reorganized internally to remove silos between its public cloud and enterprise data centre teams
• Why CDW needed to move to a hybrid cloud strategy to better support customers
• Where CDW is seeing benefits from bringing teams together and changing the focus from technologies to business outcomes
• How the culture around hybrid cloud is changing
• Challenges we’ve seen from customers in adopting the hybrid cloud, and how to resolve them
• How to build high-performance teams: Investing in the right people, empowering them and supporting them with the right tools
• How to inspire change as a leader within an organization

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In this episode, we discuss…

• How Cisco is helping customers tackle visibility across the hybrid cloud
• Key challenges with gathering real-time metrics in the hybrid cloud and how to address them
• The rise of open-source platforms and the new challenges and opportunities they bring
• How to get started with real-time analytics and application observability
• How AppDynamics helps customers identify problems and take corrective action
• Serverless applications and what’s going to happen with observability over the next couple of years
• How AppDynamics can be injected into the DevOps and CI/CD pipeline
• Agents of Transformation 2021: The Rise of Full-Stack Observability -  https://www.appdynamics.com/resources/reports/rise-of-full-stack-observability 

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In this episode, we discuss…

• Microsoft's Developer Velocity report: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/overview/developer-velocity/
• How do you define modern applications?
• Why “risk mitigation” should be the seventh R in app modernization
• What separates top-performing companies from bottom-performing companies
• How do you define success in adopting application modernization platforms?
• How to get started with app modernization
• What is Microsoft doing in this space?

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