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Where Does My Cloud Bill Go? Cloud Cost Management Best Practices

Webinar

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Sponsored by harness


Thursday, May 6, 2021
3 p.m. ET

Have you ever seen or received a really big cloud bill and had to explain it to someone in finance? Hear from the actual finance professional who saw and paid our cloud bills how he felt about that and from one of the engineers that caused the problem in the first place.

After several lengthy discovery processes, Harness decided to solve this problem with technology. Learn from Harness the challenges around cloud cost management and how to implement FinOps thinking in your organization - creating harmony between finance and engineering.

Key Take-Aways:

  • What it takes to get engineering and finance to speak the same language
  • How to create transparency between the people that rack up the bills and the ones that pay it
  • Why engineers normally can’t do much about cloud costs and how to change that Introduction to FinOps thinking

     
Bhargav Brahmbhatt
Technical Product Marketer - Harness
Bhargav is a technical product marketer at Harness. With a background as a software engineer, he's invested in bringing the next generation of cool engineering tools (and toys) to the people.
Jeff Merlin
Head of Strategic Finance - Harness
Jeffrey Merlin is the Head of Strategic Finance at Harness with over a decade of experience in financial planning and analysis for private and public companies. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Robert Morris University. At Harness, he is responsible for managing the cloud cost management process which includes setting the annual budget, managing vendor relationships, developing cost optimization strategies, and communicating results with various stakeholders.
Ravi Lachhman
Evangelist - Harness
Ravi Lachhman is an evangelist at Harness. Prior to Harness, Ravi was an evangelist at AppDynamics. Ravi has held various sales and engineering roles at Mesosphere, Red Hat, and IBM helping commercial and federal clients build the next generation of distributed systems. Ravi enjoys traveling the world with his stomach and is obsessed with Korean BBQ.

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