Cracking the cloud-cost puzzle to gain more cloud value

Solving the cloud-cost conundrum to drive higher cloud value

Despite cloud’s many benefits, organizations are often shocked at its operational costs. In this episode, David Linthicum talks with Erik Peterson, co-founder and CTO of CloudZero, about how companies can leverage software engineering and focus on costs to optimize cloud spend and drive value. According to Erik, success lies in cooperation between finance and engineering to better understand the financial impact of cloud and close the feedback loop in terms of mapping costs to features.

Finance is an enormously complex discipline; software engineering is an enormously complex discipline…but you can create a common language between these two groups.

Erik Peterson is the co-founder and CTO of CloudZero. He has spent 20-plus years in technology. Erik has experience in app security, cloud, sales, product management, marketing, and engineering.

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