Get Projects Approved By Articulating the Business Value Of a Cloud Native Solution

The main theme of the conference presentation is the importance of automation and abstraction in accelerating the adoption of Cloud Native and DevOps practices in organizations. The speakers emphasized the need to break down internal silos and cultural barriers to embrace change and innovation.

• Automation and abstraction are key to accelerating the adoption of Cloud Native and DevOps practices
• Breaking down internal silos and cultural barriers is crucial to embracing change and innovation
• Encapsulating know-how and making it reusable and automated is important
• Starting small and picking one project or team to be an innovator can lead to success and breed further success

One of the speakers shared an example of a retail store that relied heavily on an application for 99% of their sales. Rolling out upgrades or changes to the application required downtime, which posed a huge risk to the business. By automating the deployment process, the risk of downtime was reduced and the developers were able to move faster and be more agile.

Cloud native technology is a robust set of tools that enable the development of innovative solutions, but practitioners often do not understand the business value delivered. This panel discussion will focus on three examples of how cloud native tools provide significant benefits not possible with traditional technology. Larry Carvalho, Principal Consultant at RobustCloud LLC, will moderate this session. Krisztián Flautner from Cisco will touch upon how a financial enterprise customer with challenges around digital transformation and the acceleration of FinTech uses cloud native technology to accelerate the introduction of new applications with lifecycle management. Chris Rosen from IBM will highlight how a customer used cloud native technologies to build a hybrid cloud solution that leveraged insights from data to speed up the insurance claim process while preventing fraud. Betty Junod from VMware will discuss how a traditional retailer was able to turn a production downtime of their primary in-store system over a busy sale weekend into a modern system that is more resilient, scalable, and agile for their central IT and store associates. This panel discussion will help you articulate the bottom line value delivered by a collection of open source cloud native technologies.