How to Ensure Application Performance
Presentation with Forrester Research
Ops Teams Can Build a Solid Foundation for App Performance
Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) teams are doubling down with modern infrastructure as code (IaC) technologies to build and run their applications more efficiently. But, this new, pragmatic hybrid cloud world is fraught with complexities and challenges to application performance.
Best Practices for Selecting the Right Cloud & Container Resources to Ensure App Performance
One key challenge for Operations teams is making sure the right resources are always precisely aligned with what an application needs to perform and scale—whether it’s cloud-native or not.
In this presentation, guest Forrester Senior Analyst Chris Gardner and Densify CTO Andrew Hillier explore best practices for selecting the optimal cloud and container resources to ensure apps run and scale efficiently.
Watch now and understand how you can build a better foundation for performant apps:
- Learn current trends for running apps in infrastructure-as-code-driven environments, as well as the hybrid challenges faced by infrastructure and operations teams every day
- We lay out a structural framework and systematic approach for how to tackle resource optimization in the cloud
- Gain practical strategies and tactics to predictively optimize resources in your AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and VMware environments
- See how to find the ideal service types for your workloads, optimize your scale groups, and set container resource specifications
- Understand how to automate resource optimization and integrate this process with your DevOps CI/CD workflows to ensure peak app performance
Ensure Performant Apps by Aligning the Right Cloud & Container Resources
Build the strongest foundation for your application workloads—on-prem and in the cloud!
About The Speakers
Chris GardnerSenior Analyst, Forrester Research
Chris Gardner serves infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals as they face the unique opportunities and challenges of automation, infrastructure-as-code, and the software-defined data center. He specializes in treating elements of infrastructure systems like developers treat applications: modeled code that can be dynamically shaped and remolded to handle changing business needs at will. Chris has a special passion for the people impact of automation, DevOps, and how I&O professionals and organizational culture evolve and capitalize on a flexible and exciting future.
Andrew HillierCTO, Densify
Andrew Hillier has over 20 years of experience in the creation and implementation of mission-critical cloud applications for the world’s largest enterprises. As CTO and Co-Founder of Densify, he heads product strategy and leads the creation of the sophisticated workload pattern analysis and machine learning technology that underpins the Densify solution—which bolsters app performance. Hillier holds 10 patents in this field and is a noted thought leader and speaker in the areas of cloud and container technologies.
