Cloud optimization strategies: aligning tech with goals [Video]

As businesses adopt cloud optimization strategies, the focus on efficiency and aligning workloads with business goals grows sharper.

While traditional observability tools focus on core metrics, they often fail to capture whether workloads are performing as intended. This gap, described by industry leaders as the “illusion of efficiency,” underscores the need to align technical performance metrics with business objectives, according to John Purcell (pictured), chief product officer of DoiT International.

“If you rely on classic traditional observability systems, they will tell you at a sort of a core metrics basis, am I using the technology I’ve deployed as effectively or as efficiently as I might be?” Purcell said. “What they won’t tell you is that infrastructure are those workloads performing the way we had intended them to operate. By understanding the intent of the workload as you’re deploying it, then you can use the data that’s being fed out of systems to determine whether you are …