Chris Parlette maintains that renting infrastructure on demand is the most disruptive trend in IT in decades. In 2016, enterprises spent $23B on public cloud IaaS services. By 2020, that figure is expected to reach $65B. The public cloud is now used like a utility, and like any utility, there is waste. Who's responsible for optimizing the infrastructure and reducing wasted expenses? It’s DevOps. The excess expense, known as cloud waste, comprises several interrelated problems: services running when they don't need to be, improperly sized infrastructure, orphaned resources, and shadow IT....
Chris Parlette
ParkMyCLoud
Director of cloud solutions at ParkMyCloud Chris Parlette helps customers reduce their cloud waste and manage their hybrid infrastructures by drawing on his years of experience working at various software start-ups. From SaaS to on-premise, virtualization to cloud, monitoring tools to cloud management platforms, and small businesses to large enterprises, Chris has seen it all and loves helping drive improvements to IT management. Follow Chris on Twitter at @cparlette, email him at [email protected], and learn more about ParkMyCloud.