Adrian Cockcroft

Cloud providers are large, growing rapidly, and leading sustainable development of datacenters, although their total capacity is still a small proportion of the global datacenter footprint.

Sustainability has been deemed the greatest challenge of all time for many generations, yet, we have reached any substantial progress to defeat it. This is true across many industries, including the software sector.

Introducing the track, this talk will define terminology and introduce the mental models needed to make sense of sustainability as a non-functional requirement for developing and operating systems.

Customers moving mission-critical applications to the cloud are seeking guidance to replicate and improve the resiliency of their Tier 1 systems while simultaneously meeting compliance and regulatory requirements. Natural disasters, internet disruptions, or hardware or software failure can lead to events requiring customers to invoke disaster recovery (DR) plans.

What does it take to innovate quickly? In this session, we address how blockers to innovation, such as culture, skills, antiquated processes, and board-level concerns, can stand in the way of business agility.