A centralized cloud center of excellence represents the best way to ensure cloud governance, while maintaining business agility. In this session, we provide best practice guidance on how to build a CCoE.

Containers can help enterprises modernize legacy applications and create microservices applications that are scalable and agile. Kubernetes has emerged as the defacto standard for orchestrating these workloads. This session will look at the business value of deploying microservices infrastructure and offer recommendations on best practices to implement and vendors to choose.

The topic of containers and Kubernetes has witnessed immense interest in enterprise IT over the past 24 months. In this session, I&O leaders will learn about the potential impact containers will have on their IT environment, identify strategic vendors and understand how they need to rethink current infrastructure and operations approaches .

I&O leaders have to work with their CIOs be active contributors toward their organizations’ digital success in delivering growth by helping scale digital initiatives throughout their enterprise. Infrastructure and operations leaders have to do so primarily by better aligning their capabilities to products with the business and by delivering improved quality and by lowering costs.