Advance Into the Future Through Cloud Optimization

The evolution of the cloud has completely revolutionized the way enterprises innovate and deliver services to their users and customers. However, the proliferation of cloud services and tools, tied with the pressure of adopting agile IT methodologies, means massive organizational changes in people, process, policy, and tooling.

Leveraging the cloud substantially streamlines the timeframe to deploy these services. However, it also presents challenges when trying to identify and measure workload availability, security vulnerabilities, regulatory compliance, cost visibility, and reporting.

Cloud waste in 2020 is predicted to exceed $17.6 billion, meaning most organizations will have upwards of 35% cloud spend overages.

This keynote will focus specifically on what we are doing to help our customers continue to leverage the benefits of cloud at scale while minimizing waste.

This approach focuses on 4 key functional areas:

• Security and Compliance, helping minimize risk.
• Spend, helping to maximize profitability.
• Provisioning, helping to increase productivity
• Visibility and Operations, providing the observability and insights needed for continual optimization.

Speaker: Sean Hobday

Position: Senior Vice President, International & Strategic Accounts, Zones

Background: Sean Hobday was named SeniorVicePresidentof Global Business Developmentin January 2012 to lead the company's global expansion efforts in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, India,and Canada. Since then, he has architected a global footprint to serve Zonesclientsaround the world. Hobday has held multiple leadership positions at Zones, includingDirector ofClientDevelopment,VicePresident ofEnterpriseSales,andPresident of Zones Corporate Solutions. Hobday has specialized in developing global sales and operational units to serve global clients in the enterprise and mid-market space.  

Speaker: Tony Rylands

Position: Director of Microsoft Technical Programs, Zones

Background: Tony has over 20 years of solution sales, design, installation, configuration, and support with specialized expertise in Cloud Solution Adoption, Cloud Collaboration, Hosted Contact Center, Open Source/Openstack, DevOps, Multi-tenant DC, XaaSConsumption, SP Networking, Triple Play Service Offerings, and LAN/WAN Design. Tony has a degree in Computer Science and is focused on customer and partner success using cloud technology.