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The 7 Steps to Creating and Refining a Cloud Migration Strategy

For a successful cloud migration, creating (and later refining), a cloud migration strategy tailored to your organization’s goals, available resources, workloads, and priorities is an absolute necessity. So here, we’ll take a look at a simple list of the areas you’ll need to quantify and understand to build that strategy and then improve it as you move forward through the cloud migration process.

Hybrid Cloud Monitoring in Depth

Nowadays, monitoring is very important. Why is that? Because applications become more and more complicated. But not only applications—infrastructure becomes complicated too. Some companies are moving to the cloud; others are building hybrid infrastructure. And if some pieces of infrastructure are in the cloud while others are on-premises, this creates even more unclarity on how to get an overview of the infrastructure as a whole.

That's A Data Problem - Accelerating Cloud Transformation | Splunk's James Hodge & Daniel Newman

With a massive shift to cloud infrastructure, organizations are now wrestling with operational complexity. Leadership must look to data solutions that support their cloud strategies, empower their people to make decisions and reach their business outcomes. Tech Analyst Daniel Newman and Global Chief Technical Advisor at Splunk, James Hodge, take a deep dive into accelerating cloud-driven transformation and discuss the benefits and best practices for achieving desired business outcomes.

Long-term savings without long-term lock-in

While all cloud providers offer discounted pricing in exchange for 1- or 3-year commitments, these financial arrangements carry the risk of lock-in with potential cloud waste and negative ROI. In this session we’ll highlight best practices for planning, purchasing and managing RI and Savings Plans portfolios and how Spot Eco automates cloud commitment optimization for increased savings and utilization.

Spotlight: a look into Predictive rebalancing

Have you ever wondered how Spot identifies and predicts spot instance interruptions so you can run your workloads reliably on them? Advanced, highly trained machine learning algorithms are the foundation of many capabilities our platforms deliver and in this session, we’ll show you how Spot tracks, predicts, and replaces spot instances up to an hour before interruption. If you are considering leveraging spot instances for your production and mission-critical workloads, this session will show how Spot eliminates all the risk of spot instances while delivering all the cost-benefits.

Spotlight: Serverless spark on Kubernetes

With Apache Spark now natively supporting Kubernetes, many of our customers are looking to move big data, ML, AI applications into Kubernetes. To help you along this journey, Spot by NetApp recently launched Wave, a serverless container engine designed specifically for big data applications. Built on the same core technologies as Ocean, Wave is giving big applications automated, scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure.

Introducing Datadog Cloud Security Posture Management

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) are major inhibitors for organizations moving to the cloud—and for good reason. Cloud environments are complex, and even a single misconfigured security group can result in a serious data breach. In fact, misconfigurations were the leading cause of cloud security breaches in 2020. This puts a lot of pressure on developer and operations teams to properly secure their services and maintain regulatory compliance.

What Is Amazon ElastiCache? Everything You Should Know

Rolled out in 2011, AWS ElastiCache has grown to become one of the most prominent Amazon services among developers. So much so that in the 2020 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, one of its fully-managed engines was voted by developers as the most loved database. On the flip side, however, AWS ElastiCache happens to be infamous for its high costs. Although it offers a flexible pricing system that charges you only for what you use, the usage bill can get pretty high for some users.

Customer Story: Lacework, Innovating cloud security solutions on kubernetes

The DevOps experts at Lacework, a cloud security and compliance company, were manually managing large Kubernetes cluster themselves. In this session, learn how they went from DIY Kubernetes to automated infrastructure management, freeing their DevOps teams from manual work.