As the pressure ramps up for organizations to reduce cloud costs and do more with less, Kubernetes efficiency is becoming an urgent priority. However, complexity and scale have made Kubernetes optimization an extremely difficult and time-consuming challenge to solve. We built v2 of StormForge Optimize Live to solve this exact challenge. With fast and easy deployment, the ability to see the business impact of optimizations, and automation to optimize your applications continuously, you can get started in no time at all. Join us for a demo of StormForge Optimize Live v2, and see how it helped Acquia to significantly reduce cloud costs while still ensuring performance and reliability. By attending this webinar, you’ll learn how to: - How you can get started right-sizing your Kubernetes applications and improve efficiency quickly and with minimal effort. - How StormForge automation can help you build Kubernetes resources into your workflows at scale and make optimization autonomous. - How to understand the business impact of optimization and demonstrate value to leadership. Watch the webinar: https://tinyurl.com/2p88ukjd

1. Optimize Live v2
How Acquia partnered with StormForge
to Reduce Cloud Costs & Improve Reliability

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Yasmin Rajabi
Vice President
Product, StormForge
Erwin Daria
Technical Alliances,
StormForge
Ed Brennan
Chief Architect
Acquia
Introductions

3. The Challenge of
Optimizing Kubernetes

4. The Kubernetes Efficiency Challenge
● Developers guess at resource settings or
use defaults
● Configuring applications to run efficiently on
Kubernetes is extremely difficult
● Platform teams are left to manage
resources without knowing the needs of the
app
● “Do more with less” is the new reality, but
teams feel they must choose between
reliability and cost
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5. The Impact
● Unsustainable growth in
enterprise cloud spend, 70-80%
of revenues in some cases
● Capacity and utilization issues
● App performance & reliability
issues
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Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1114926/enterprise-spending-cloud-and-data-centers/
Enterprise spending on cloud and data centers by segment
(in billion U.S dollars)

6. 81% of IT teams directed to reduce or halt cloud
spending by C-suite
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500 U.S. IT decision-makers
in Q3 of 2022
https://venturebeat.com/data-infra
structure/report-81-of-it-teams-dir
ected-to-reduce-or-halt-cloud-spe
nding-by-c-suite/

7. The Kubernetes skills gap makes it even more
challenging to address these challenges at scale.
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8. Right-size your K8s application
resources, automatically &
continuously?
What if you could…
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9. Introducing
Optimize Live v2

10. Optimize Live Overview
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● Right-size Kubernetes application resources to
reduce costs & improve reliability
● Automatic and continuous
● Machine learning analyzes CPU and memory
utilization, and automatically adjusts resources
requests up & down to meet demand
● Does the vertical autoscaling for you while making
horizontal autoscaling more efficient
● Fast and easy setup - start getting value in a day

11. Time to Value
Removing obstacles to Kubernetes optimization
Key Challenges Addressed With Optimize Live
Understanding of Business Impact
Quantifying the impact and ROI of StormForge recommendations
Operational Confidence
Automated right-sizing at scale
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12. RECOMMEND
● CPU and memory
● HPA target utilization
DISCOVER
● Continuously ingest
workloads
● Machine Learning
analyzes Kubernetes
data
IMPLEMENT
● Automatic or manual
● Route through CI/CD
process
INSTALL
Optimize Live: How does it work?

13. ~ Demo|

14. Story Time with

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Phase 1 rollout to K8s designed to accelerate value to
customers
Phase 2 to optimize costs to bring inline with
business projections
Target to reduce platform costs by >$1M
Acquia’s Million Dollar Challenge

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Acquia’s Million Dollar Challenge
Non-Production
Deploy
Optimize
Live
Deploy
Recommendations
Analyze
Customer
Non-Production
Deploy
Optimize
Live
Deploy
Recommendations
Analyze
Customer
Production
Deploy
Optimize
Live
Deploy
Recommendations
Analyze

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Acquia’s Million Dollar Challenge
Cost
Benefits
Operational
Benefits
Customer
Benefits

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Q&A

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Learn more about:
www.stormforge.io www.acquia.com

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