Maximize cloud efficiency: how to cut costs and keep uptime strong

As you move more of your workloads to the cloud, cloud infrastructure costs can quickly become a significant expense. To efficiently and successfully run your applications in the cloud, it’s crucial to take a look at your overall TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) from multiple lenses.

In this fireside chat, Mike Zimberg, CTO at Digital Asset Research shares how they achieved a 99.99% uptime, while lowering their managed Apache Kafka® costs by 25% and improving their performance by 10x.

Watch this session to learn how to optimize your cloud infrastructure spend for long-term success, reduce your TCO, and ensure the same level of uptime, security, and resiliency.

Michael Zimberg

CTO, Digital Asset Research

Michael Zimberg is the CTO of Digital Asset Research (DAR), a specialized provider of ‘clean’ digital asset data, insights, and research for institutional clients. Prior to DAR, Mike held a variety of leadership roles in capital markets and fintech, including as global head of product development for Citigroup’s prime brokerage; back office technology manager at Pine River, a multi strategy hedge fund; and technology leadership roles at BNP Paribas, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley.

Heikki Nousiainen

Field CTO and Co-Founder, Aiven

Heikki is Field-CTO and Co-founder at Aiven, a trusted data and AI platform. With over two decades in software engineering and information security space, Heikki is passionate about developer productivity, open source and open standards and data management at scale.

Jonah Kowall

VP of Product Management, Aiven

Jonah Kowall, computer scientist and open-source contributor to OpenSearch, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry. A technical leader across startups to large enterprises specialized in operations, security, and performance. Led Gartner research on monitoring. Product leadership at AppDynamics, Cisco (post-acquisition), Kentik, Logz.io, and is current the head of product management at Aiven building tomorrow’s open source data platform for everyone.

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