The Business Case for Autonomous Cloud Management: Panel Discussion with RIngCentral, Norwest Venture Partmers, Sedai and Cato

How can autonomous improve cost, availability and productivity? Experiences from RingCentral, Uber, Cato, fabric, Belcorp, Freshworks, and Norwest Venture Partners are brought together here in this panel discussion from autocon/22. Panelists: Kira Makagon, Chief Innovation Officer, RingCentral Matt Howard, General Partner, Norwest Venture Partners Suresh Mathew, Founder & CEO, Sedai Dean Nelson. CEO, Cato and Ex-Head Uber Compute (Moderator) Key moments: 00:00: Why automation is no longer enough 01:47: Autonomy negates the tradeoffs of the past between quality, speed and cost 03:51: RingCentral's need to innovate drives Autonomous adoption 05:56: Autonomous is helping RingCentral improve productivity, cost and reliability 07:30: RingCentral's team saw opportunity to reduce toil 08:06: How Autonomous impacts RingCentral Dev & SRE productivity 09:22: Why Norwest has made multiple investments in autonomous 11:51: Great technologies elevate people's careers 15:04: The Enterprise Business Case for Autonomous 17:52: fabric has 180,000 autonomous operations a year 18:51: Belcorp saw 75% reduction in latency 20:39: Autonomous improved fabric performance 21:22: Humans can pass boring tasks to autonomous systems 22:30: How does Sedai avoid errors? 23:34: Microservice complexity is beyond human scale 24:37: Augment people & help them scale 25:38: RingCentral's POV on Performance 29:40: Slow is the new down 31:09: Progress from automation to autonomous 32:17: Time to value is fast vs general purpose technologies 35:38: RingCentral's POV on the full value of autonomous 36:26: Do No Harm & Practical Autonomy 37:25: Autonomous started in 2003, but adoption was slow 38:40: Wrapup on the value of autonomy To learn more about Sedai visit https://bit.ly/3e3Cqlv #autonomouscloud #lambda #kubernetes #eks #ecs #sre #devops #aws #serverless #a8s4k8s #sedai #autocon22, #kiramakagon, #ringcentral, #matthoward, #norwestventurepartners, #nvp, #deannelson, #cato