Engineering & cloud infrastructure experts from Paylocity, Palo Alto Networks, fabric and Norwest Venture Partners discuss the drivers behind the growth of autonomous cloud management in this panel discussion from autocon/22. The participants are all looking to innovate faster and invest more in applications that drive customer outcomes and are using autonomous to help achieve those goals focusing on well defined use cases that free up their teams for higher value work.

Panel participants:

Rachit Lohani, CTO & SVP Engineering and Product, Paylocity

Suresh Sangiah, SVP Engineering, Palo Alto Networks

Prakash Muppirala, EVP Platform, fabric

Matt Howard, General Partner, Norwest Venture Partners (moderator)

Key moments:

00:38 : Tech professionals are increasingly oversubscribed

01:23 : Delivering on promises to customers

02:20 : AI/ML has become practical

03:33 : The era of Collaborative Autonomy

04:03 : Palo Alto Network's approach to Autonomous

05:23 : Palo Alto Network's use cases for Autonomous

06:13 : How did Palo Alto Networks sell Autonomy internally?

07:45 : Paylocity's view on Autonomy vs their next generation service concept

09:34 : Importance of automation to create time for innovation and avoid low value toil

09:59 : Paylocity on Autonomy vs Automation (read more at https://bit.ly/3RimrOS)

10:57 : How Paylocity built trust with Autonomy

12:33 : Impact of Autonomous systems on productivity at Paylocity

12:59 : fabric's life before & after Autonomous

15:37 : Palo Alto's results from Autonomous & bottlenecks

18:42 : Did autonomy make people at Palo Alto feel threatened?

20:28 : Autonomous use cases at Paylocity

22:37 : How Paylocity uses KPIs to monitor performance

24:38 : How fabric avoided harm when rolling out autonomous with a hybrid model

27:14 : Palo Alto Network's view on capabilities to maintain internally

28:13 : Palo Alto Network's Roadmap for Autonomy

29:15 : The ROI of Autonomy at Paylocity

30:26 : Important Tasks for Humans Change Over Time

31:44 : fabric's advice for others adopting autonomous

To learn more about Sedai's autonomous cloud management platform visit https://bit.ly/3e3Cqlv

#autonomouscloud #lambda #kubernetes #eks #ecs #sre #devops #aws #serverless #a8s4k8s #sedai #autocon22