One-stop to grab useful insights about cutting cloud spend AND migrating your workloads with a smart roadmap
Apr 27, 2021 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Who hasn’t jumped into the deep end of the cloud by now? Whether the COVID-19 pandemic was a catalyst or not, you turned to cloud adoption to stay nimble, innovate and evolve. Investing in Azure Cloud was only the first step.
While the cloud’s advantages are well known, how—and how quickly—you implement this technology and empower your teams to use it will determine your business’ ability to realize them.
Join Paragon Micro Canada partner Opticca Consulting for this dedicated webinar on how Azure teams can better understand, navigate, and address your constantly changing enterprise cloud environment.
Opticca’s Cloud Solutions Architect, Ally Meer-Hossen, breaks down long-term strategies and short-term tactics to help you combat rising cloud bills and better govern your Azure Cloud, and create opportunities for transformation, save migration and cloud operations costs and eliminate risk during migration.
Explore these 2 nuts & bolts sessions to help your business run better on the cloud:
Cloud sprawl, undefined governance, general unexpected/unbudgeted usage of Azure resources—it’s all too easy to overspend on cloud resources. Luckily Microsoft Azure offers a host of tools to help you keep an eye on costs. From notifications to AI-powered usage recommendations, learn how you can regain control of your Azure cloud spend and achieve true cost optimization using Azure Cost Management.
You’ll learn:
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Practical strategies for Network, Storage & Compute optimization
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Tactics that’ll work right away
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Examples of small mistakes that can cost you a lot
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Use cases on optimizing cloud costs and how they can be achieved for different systems and scenarios
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Common mistakes to avoid when setting up/scaling your cloud infrastructure
Know your Migration Roadmap Inside & Out
You’re ready to start innovating on the cloud. But before you migrate your workloads to the cloud it’s absolutely essential to know your migration options—which apps require a transformation or rearchitecting, which apps need to be only partially modernized, which apps can you lift & shift directly to Azure Cloud? Learn how you can build a tighter & faster app migration plan while ensuring agility, elastic scalability and cost-effective modernization.
You’ll learn:
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Is your application ready for cloud and/or containers?
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What options you have and which is the best route to move to the cloud?
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How to get actionable insights for your app’s modernization
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How to uncover unused or outdated apps and infrastructure you have
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Ways to save on OpEx and CapEx by taking early business decisions like whether you need to retire, retain, re-host or refactor your apps
Who should attend
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CIOs
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Senior IT decision makers
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Software engineering or DevOps lead/manager
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Chief architect
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Solutions architect
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Cloud infrastructure or Ops lead/manager
Virtual workshop details
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11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EDT
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April 27, 2021
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