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7 Things You Need to Know for Your Cloud-First StrategyFlexera
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Using Automated Policies for SaaS Governance and ComplianceFlexera
Learn to use automated SaaS policies to enforce governance and compliance, including unsanctioned spend alerts, detecting suspicious user activity, onboarding and offboarding, and detecting inactive user accounts.
Get a Complete View of Your Business Services and IT Estate in ServiceNow wit...Flexera
Context is Critical to IT and an Accurate CMDB is Vital to Context
A near-real time accurate CMDB is an important requirement but a major challenge for modern IT organizations. Bad and missing data can significantly impact the business and result in business impacting service outages, increased business risk and exposure to security threats.
ServiceNow provides the essential management and big picture visibility that is crucial to an effective CMDB. And Flexera | RISC Networks provides detailed discovery data, context and analysis to push into your ServiceNow instance, making the picture of the current state accurate and contextually relevant.
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Watch this webinar and get the answers to help you learn to effectively manage software-as-a-service. Learn to optimize SaaS spend, manage multiple vendors and their pricing models, and right-size contracts with detailed usage and cost data.
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Learn about the new features in FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises 2018, which brings new capabilities to extend Flexera's leadership in Software Asset Management.
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Amy Chun, Partner at Knobbe Martens and Marty Mellican, VP & Associate General Counsel at Flexera discuss the role of in-house counsel to better manage any potential legal risks that might be inherent with OSS use.
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Most businesses have at least 3 or more cloud services, and it’s hard enough to control spend for just one. That’s why Flexera acquired RightScale, the leading multi-cloud management provider. With cloud services making up 20% of most IT budgets, the spend optimization stakes are high. This year’s Rightscale State Of The Cloud report shows that up to 35% of cloud services spend may be wasted.
View these slides to see how RightScale Optima helps you find that 35% and act on it.
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Learn to use automated SaaS policies to enforce governance and compliance, including unsanctioned spend alerts, detecting suspicious user activity, onboarding and offboarding, and detecting inactive user accounts.
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ServiceNow provides the essential management and big picture visibility that is crucial to an effective CMDB. And Flexera | RISC Networks provides detailed discovery data, context and analysis to push into your ServiceNow instance, making the picture of the current state accurate and contextually relevant.
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Watch this webinar and get the answers to help you learn to effectively manage software-as-a-service. Learn to optimize SaaS spend, manage multiple vendors and their pricing models, and right-size contracts with detailed usage and cost data.
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Learn about the new features in FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises 2018, which brings new capabilities to extend Flexera's leadership in Software Asset Management.
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Amy Chun, Partner at Knobbe Martens and Marty Mellican, VP & Associate General Counsel at Flexera discuss the role of in-house counsel to better manage any potential legal risks that might be inherent with OSS use.
Having Trouble Managing All Your Cloud Services? We Know!Flexera
Most businesses have at least 3 or more cloud services, and it’s hard enough to control spend for just one. That’s why Flexera acquired RightScale, the leading multi-cloud management provider. With cloud services making up 20% of most IT budgets, the spend optimization stakes are high. This year’s Rightscale State Of The Cloud report shows that up to 35% of cloud services spend may be wasted.
View these slides to see how RightScale Optima helps you find that 35% and act on it.
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View this webinar with Forrester analyst Charlie Betz and Forrester consultant Stephen Odell, as they present the detailed findings of their study. After the webinar, you will have a better understanding of the benefits of Flexera Data Platform.
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Learn how software license optimization empowers IT Procurement, Sourcing, and Vendor Management to control costs for software licenses and cloud services, and negotiate better agreements.
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Corporate IT is rapidly evolving as the technology landscape changes. In this presentation, Jon Hall, Lead Product Manager for ITAM at BMC, argues that asset management is becoming an ever-more critical factor in managing that change. Far from being a “custodian of spreadsheets,” the IT asset manager is uniquely positioned to observe, oversee, manage, and influence the make-up of the next generation service environment. The presentation will explore some of the biggest technology changes impacting business IT, and explore how a cross-functional and informed ITAM function can help the business to get the best from them.
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RapidScale's Secure Messaging is a secure enhancement to business-class email, not a replacement. It is an addition to your current email, enabling business users to securely send, receive, track and control email communications on any device, simply and effectively.
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Webinar: Take Proactive Control of Your SAP Licensing, Indirect Usage and Ven...Flexera
Join UpperEdge and Flexera in this webinar to learn the importance of getting more proactive control of your SAP relationship to drive predictable outcomes and increased value.
Leading IT research firm EMA and Pluribus Networks partnered on market research to understand how enterprises are modernizing their data center networks to support their multi-cloud strategies, with a particular focus on data center network fabrics and network automation.
These slides based on the webinar provide insights into key findings, including:
- How enterprises are building network fabrics that enable greater agility and application availability across multiple data centers
- How network automation is playing a role in these new architectures
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Windows 10 webinar: What’s new for IT pros Windows 10 v 1709Flexera
Join Microsoft's Iris Fang and Nick Moseley, Technical Solutions Professionals, for an overview of the new business-friendly features coming in the Windows 10 Update 1709. Whether you have already migrated to Windows 10 and are planning for the upgrade, or preparing to migrate from Windows 7 to The Fall Creators update, this webinar will review what enterprises can expect in the new release.
Preparing Your Customer's Network for the Work from Home TransitionQOS Networks
With the mass transition to at-home workers, customers are forced to quickly adjust or even overhaul their network policies and technology to prepare. With many remote staff that will likely continue to stay working at home, how do you talk about the short and long term network strategy?
Trust and Cloud Computing, removing the need to trust your cloud providerDavid Wallom
Presentation at CloudSecurityExpo 2106 publicly describing the Porridge distributed remote attestation using multiple trusted Third Parties as a way of building a cryptographically secure cloud service. Allowing users to know the cloud they are using is in exactly the format they expect. This will be commercially available through the Antyran product. This work is supported by InnovateUK KTP in partnership between University of Oxford e-Research centre and 100PercentIT. Other partners not in the KTP in include OctaInnovations.
Announcing the availability of the largest and most comprehensive repository of technology asset data on the planet. Current and constantly curated. Available on the software industry’s first open platform for this data. It’s about time.
Cloud computing can probably make the biggest impact in the SMB segment. Why? Because traditionally, these businesses haven’t been able to afford the same services and resources that large companies use, limiting their capabilities. Now, thanks to the cloud, businesses of all sizes can take advantage of world-class IT resources.
Here are some statistics about how cloud is benefitting SMBs today.
The 5 Biggest Data Myths in Telco: ExposedCloudera, Inc.
More than any business, telecommunications firms have long been dealing with huge, diverse sets of data. Big Data. Data that is unstructured, unwieldy and disorganised, making it difficult to analyse and costly to manage. Your landscape is fiercely competitive and you instinctively know it's exactly that data that would allow you to be more innovative. Data that would set you apart from the competition. You would like to realise its true potential yet you have concerns around security, RoI or integration with existing data management solutions.
Webinar: Maximizing the ROI of IT by Simplifying Technology ComplexityFlexera
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Learn how software license optimization empowers IT Procurement, Sourcing, and Vendor Management to control costs for software licenses and cloud services, and negotiate better agreements.
BMC Engage - ITAM 2015-2020: The Evolving Role of the IT Asset ManagerJon Stevens-Hall
Session Description:
Corporate IT is rapidly evolving as the technology landscape changes. In this presentation, Jon Hall, Lead Product Manager for ITAM at BMC, argues that asset management is becoming an ever-more critical factor in managing that change. Far from being a “custodian of spreadsheets,” the IT asset manager is uniquely positioned to observe, oversee, manage, and influence the make-up of the next generation service environment. The presentation will explore some of the biggest technology changes impacting business IT, and explore how a cross-functional and informed ITAM function can help the business to get the best from them.
Keeping a Lid on Costs for Cloud Infrastructure and SaaS ApplicationsFlexera
Join us for this webinar as we discuss the spend management risks associated with cloud services and some of the strategies organizations can use to keep a lid on these costs using Software Asset Management processes and tools. We’ll use Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Office 365 as specific examples of cloud infrastructure services and SaaS applications, respectively, that can be managed for better cost efficiency.
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Join UpperEdge and Flexera in this webinar to learn the importance of getting more proactive control of your SAP relationship to drive predictable outcomes and increased value.
Leading IT research firm EMA and Pluribus Networks partnered on market research to understand how enterprises are modernizing their data center networks to support their multi-cloud strategies, with a particular focus on data center network fabrics and network automation.
These slides based on the webinar provide insights into key findings, including:
- How enterprises are building network fabrics that enable greater agility and application availability across multiple data centers
- How network automation is playing a role in these new architectures
- How enterprises incorporate the public cloud into these architectures
- The challenges enterprises encounter when adopting these new technologies
Windows 10 webinar: What’s new for IT pros Windows 10 v 1709Flexera
Join Microsoft's Iris Fang and Nick Moseley, Technical Solutions Professionals, for an overview of the new business-friendly features coming in the Windows 10 Update 1709. Whether you have already migrated to Windows 10 and are planning for the upgrade, or preparing to migrate from Windows 7 to The Fall Creators update, this webinar will review what enterprises can expect in the new release.
Preparing Your Customer's Network for the Work from Home TransitionQOS Networks
With the mass transition to at-home workers, customers are forced to quickly adjust or even overhaul their network policies and technology to prepare. With many remote staff that will likely continue to stay working at home, how do you talk about the short and long term network strategy?
Trust and Cloud Computing, removing the need to trust your cloud providerDavid Wallom
Presentation at CloudSecurityExpo 2106 publicly describing the Porridge distributed remote attestation using multiple trusted Third Parties as a way of building a cryptographically secure cloud service. Allowing users to know the cloud they are using is in exactly the format they expect. This will be commercially available through the Antyran product. This work is supported by InnovateUK KTP in partnership between University of Oxford e-Research centre and 100PercentIT. Other partners not in the KTP in include OctaInnovations.
Announcing the availability of the largest and most comprehensive repository of technology asset data on the planet. Current and constantly curated. Available on the software industry’s first open platform for this data. It’s about time.
Cloud computing can probably make the biggest impact in the SMB segment. Why? Because traditionally, these businesses haven’t been able to afford the same services and resources that large companies use, limiting their capabilities. Now, thanks to the cloud, businesses of all sizes can take advantage of world-class IT resources.
Here are some statistics about how cloud is benefitting SMBs today.
The 5 Biggest Data Myths in Telco: ExposedCloudera, Inc.
More than any business, telecommunications firms have long been dealing with huge, diverse sets of data. Big Data. Data that is unstructured, unwieldy and disorganised, making it difficult to analyse and costly to manage. Your landscape is fiercely competitive and you instinctively know it's exactly that data that would allow you to be more innovative. Data that would set you apart from the competition. You would like to realise its true potential yet you have concerns around security, RoI or integration with existing data management solutions.
INFOGRAPHIC: The Game of IT Infrastructure: Cloud vs In-House IT InfrastructureiMicron by Techwave
With “Cloud” being the latest trending word in the world of IT technology. Forrester predicts that more than 50% of global enterprises will rely on at least one public cloud platform to drive digital transformation. Organizations big or small are moving their workloads to clouds. But there are still some businesses who are till date relying on heavy & clunky in-house IT infrastructure and still wrestle the question that if they should adopt cloud computing technologies or not. Whether you are a small organization or a large organization, wondering if you should opt for cloud or in-house IT infrastructure is a difficult decision and we are here to help.
The advantages of using cloud computing, include:
Easily deployable models
Simplified IT Management & Maintenance
Built-in Security
Remote Access
Cost Efficient
Reliable Delivery, Management, and Support Services.
Check out this infographic to know the advantages of moving your workloads to cloud from an in-house infrastructure.
To know about our Cloud Solutions visit us at www.imicron.com
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Keys to Successful Cloud Migrations - General Dynamics Information TechnologyMarket Connections, Inc.
One-third of federal government agencies have already migrated applications to the cloud, and a third are researching or considering their cloud computing options. Choosing flexible solutions that address current and future needs are the keys to making the move cost-effective, secure, and seamless.
This infographic from leading systems integrator General Dynamics and government market research firm Market Connections, Inc. gives you the four keys to successful federal cloud migrations, plus the latest research on obstacles and benefits of moving to the cloud.
The pace of cloud adoption and innovation is rapidly accelerating bringing compelling new opportunities as well as greater complexity and risk. What are the market forces driving change in cloud management and adoption both today and beyond?
Cloud ROI and Implementation - A TechBlocks Solutions GuideTechBlocks
Realize your business potential in the cloud. This guide includes:
- How to improve business productivity in the cloud
- How to measure cloud ROI
- A step-by-step process for building your roadmap for success
1. Putting together a qualified team
2. Creating a written business case and strategy
3. Picking the right deployment and service model
4. Creating governance rules
5. Overcoming compliance and security issues
6. Integrating, validating and managing the cloud
7. Moving forward into the cloud - long term management
Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model is gaining traction among businesses.The advent of more powerful, streamlined and cost-effective cloud-enabled services is fueling this migration process by giving organizations another infrastructure management alternative.
How the Cloud is Revolutionizing the Retail IndustryRaymark
In this exclusive guide, you will learn about:
The top 5 advantages of cloud for retailers
The economics of cloud computing
Frequently asked questions about the cloud
Optimize Software, SaaS, and Cloud with Flexera and RightScaleRightScale
Flexera and RightScale have now joined forces to help you optimize the technologies you use. Learn how Flexera solutions for software license optimization and SaaS management complement RightScale cloud management and cost optimization offerings to give you comprehensive management of your technology spend.
- Uncover patterns of success and challenges to define a recipe for what makes a “Cloud Leader”
- Provide actionable takeaways and best practices for organisations throughout their cloud adoption and maturity journey
- Take a deep dive into “how” leaders are actually achieving success
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A great comfort with cloud deployment has emerged. Businesses are migrating databases to the cloud or building databases there as a result of scale challenges with the on-premises model, the cloud becoming the “center of gravity”, on-premises databases reaching capacity or emerging uses cases that are specific to the cloud. But not all organizations! And some struggle mightily with the move!
Learn about the factors that impact organizations when shifting data and applications to the cloud. What must you consider as you move significant applications and data to the cloud? This webinar will cover the major decision points that management needs to consider when moving to the cloud.
These include changes to the software model, development and quality assurance, recovery outage, and disaster recovery as well as new concerns about query performance and service levels, data interchange in the cloud, safe harbor and cross-border restrictions, and security and privacy.
We’ll also cover the new models for capacity planning and growth and staff responsibilities, the need for increased organizational change management, and how to pick targets for the journey.
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View these slides to see how these two disciplines—Software Asset Management and Security, can work together to help organizations be more efficient and more secure.
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Chicago Public Schools is the third largest school district in the United States and employs 40,000 staff in hundreds of buildings across the Chicago area. As with any public organization, they are faced with year-over-year shrinking budgets while adhering to a commitment to expand technology in classrooms. In order to balance these business needs, the District needed to understand their application footprint and identify opportunities to save money across their increasingly diverse computing infrastructure.
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1. How do I find out what applications are installed on our devices?
2. Do we really need all of those applications?
3. Is there a library of apps already authorized and packaged?
4. Which applications are Windows 10 compatible?
5. Which applications should be virtualized?
6. Can we remediate issues and deploy quickly?
7. How do we make it simple for employees to get applications?
8. How do I find and secure applications after they are installed?
9. How do I remove applications from devices?
10. How do I keep up in a more complex environment?
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Focus on what areas will resonate most with a given stakeholder and engage in conversation on the complexities they are managing.
It is no wonder IT executives are feeling this way….bringing an organization’s IT landscape into the current and future is no small task. So what does this mean for you and what you are facing?
Could use a better “rack image” – these 2 images were open source
Or maybe we use thtangle ball on the left
And yet IT has to do it all. Make sure all of your critical business systems continue to work while charging forward on new technologies that help you compete and win.
See Everything: Accurate and augmented insights to your complete technology landscape.
Spend Efficiently: Understand and optimize your technology spend across on-premise, SaaS, and cloud.
Act Automatically: Leverage automation to streamline and govern all of your technology use.
Source: Gartner
However, today most companies struggle to be cost-effective with both their software and their cloud spend.
From our experience working with customers - and industry analyst data also supports it – companies are wasting 30-35 percent of their cloud and software spend.
Because software and cloud represent 40% of your IT spend, by eliminating that waste, you can free up 12% of your IT budget to redirect to your critical business initiatives.
The biggest areas of wasted cloud spend are:
Idle or underutilized cloud instances
Dev instances running 24x7
Not leveraging discount options
Not meeting usage commitments
Unused storage
Expensive regions
Out-of-date instance families
And Flexera helps you continually optimize your IT assets across the technology lifecycle - from request to provisioning to operations to retirement.
You can speed up request, approval, and purchasing,
Ensure secure, governed provisioning & ongoing operations.
Eliminate wasted spend from unused software and cloud resources
Securely retire resources and reclaim re-usable licenses and capacity.
It’s all about People, Process and Technology
People, Process and Technology—as with traditional SAM, these are the cornerstones of a successful software license optimization program. Let’s briefly consider each one:
People—this encompasses defining the team and their roles and responsibilities for managing the software estate—from IT procurement to IT operations and compliance.
Process — Software License Optimization requires defining best practice processes for the organization to effectively manage software assets throughout the product lifecycle—from initial procurement, to ongoing management, upgrades, maintenance renewals, and finally retirement.
Technology — Software License Optimization requires using next generation tools to manage the complexity inherent in software licensing, IT environments and today’s global enterprises. Organizations must identify and implement the tools required to achieve business objectives, such as gaining visibility and control of the software estate, reducing license compliance risk, minimizing the cost of software licenses and maintenance, and enabling IT to innovate to achieve other strategic business goals.
Because many buying decisions have shifted to each line of business, IT Procurement must also consider the possibility of redundant subscriptions across the organization and missed opportunities for pricing discounts. It can be costly and time consuming to track down whether multiple individuals or teams are using the same applications if they are simply charging the fees to their company or personal credit card.
Occurs frequently with M & As
Identify redundant applications and functions to reduce SaaS spend
Understand overlaps and educate employees on when to use what tool, what the procedures are, etc.
We’ve found that many Enterprises don’t really know what their subscription position is on their SaaS apps.
For companies with 20k employees, over 40% of respondents didn’t know if they had the right number of SaaS subscriptions for their Enterprise apps. Only 32% stated they had the right amount.
Across the board, only 50% of Enterprises believe they have the right number of SaaS subscriptions for their users. The other 50% have too many, not enough or simply don’t know.
This is why it is absolutely critical that SaaS license management begins with the onboarding process and ends with the offboarding process.
So how do you go about doing this?
Start with profiling usage of existing SaaS users. Understand how frequently they are accessing – is it read vs. write (where possible), is it just a few times a month? Perhaps a shared account may make sense?
What parts of the SaaS product are they using? Do they need a full SaaS license or can they get away with a lower tier license?
What org is using the SaaS application and what kinds of roles?
These kinds of metrics should be collected over 90 days, to get an accurate profile of usage – what is normal vs. what isn’t.
Once a profile has been defined, map it to the employee onboarding/offboarding process. Also
From the SOTC 2019 survey this year, Governance has emerged as the number 1 challenge for the first time, represented by 79% of. This indicates more enterprises are adopting cloud but more importantly, their usage has matured beyond basic dev/test environments to full production environments.
Governance and compliance become more of a challenge in the last 12 months.
What we have found over the years is proactive governance is key to reduce cost, risk and improving service delivery/quality. This means setting up guardrails well ahead of provision new or re-provisioning existing workloads.
Typical activities include setting up or configuring existing cloud accounts with the correct permissions, IAM policies. Tagging is the most important area to get right after setting up permissions. Tagging drives billing, configuration management, governance and to some extent analytics. Once you have IAM policies defined, org and role permissions set and your tagging schema implemented, you can now implement appropriate onboarding/offboarding processes.
From talking to various customers and analysts, we’ve found that Enterprises use a lot different services and tools to deliver business critical services to their customers. From the number of public/private clouds to the sheer number of tools being used to manage various aspects of service delivery. Service and tool sprawl is a real challenge for centralized governance and this is why you need an integration strategy.
So what are the key benefits of integrating enterprise tools into your governance solution?
I think the numbers speak for themselves, recently we had an trusted 3rd party conduct an ROI analysis with many of our customers.
We found that by integrating our solutions into various IT tools within the service delivery tool chain, we could help our customers move faster, increase revenue, reduce overall management overhead, while reducing security risk across the board.
Furthermore, through integrations – IT siloes are broken down – teams work better together with a shared purpose. IT has better more actionable information that can lead to significant efficiency gains and bottom line improvements.
Technicolor is a great example of where they were able to reduce the time it took to request and deliver service from 4-6 weeks down to just minutes. This required integration into multiple solutions but it was ultimately governed from one place.
Here is another example. BAT uses Azure as their primary cloud provider but they had a bunch of Windows server licenses. By integrating Flexera SAM solution with our Cloud Management solution, we can take advantage of the Azure Hybrid Benefit program. In addition, by integrating with other monitoring tools, we can make better right-sizing recommendations and even shut-down VMs that aren’t being used during certain hours – based on utilization data from those monitoring tools (we have our own monitoring solution as well).
The net impact to BAT was $1M in annualized savings.
Self-service is often regarded as the holy grail or the last mile in streamlining/automating IT service delivey.
There are 3 key benefits associated with self-service enablement.
Unblock your teams and let them move as fast as they need
Simplify the onboarding/offboarding process – which reduces risk and improves efficiency
Automate, automate and automate. This enables IT to move faster and potentially accelerate the speed of the business.
Here is an example of a service catalog and how one defines a given service catalog item.
The reality is move self-service integrations either use an ITSM solution like ServiceNow as the front-end but they will also use the self-service API. The UI is used for administrative purposes. Almost all production self-service implementations are API driven, as part of a broader automated workflow process.