This past week we launched our monthly webinar series on cloud health. Each month we will bring you industry thought leaders to discuss tips and best practice for an optimized cloud. On April 3^rd, we were happy to host an all-star panel for our inaugural panel discussion on how to improve your cloud’s health.

“Your building blocks of being able to take advantage of these super dynamic (cloud) environments comes down to configuration and automation. With that, of course, comes the need to have a lot of visibility…Have I designed my systems properly? What kind of performance am I getting for my spend on AWS? …” – Patrick Pushor

Moderated by Patrick Pushor - CTO and founder of CloudChronicle.com, our panel consisted of James Urquhart – Enstratius, Joe Masters Emison – BuildFax, and Harish Ganesan – 8KMiles. The panelists answered questions about:

• The balance between SLA implementation level and cloud cost
• Fast deployment VS thorough architecture planning
• The difference between enterprise cloud application portfolio health VS start-ups that deliver online cloud applications

About the Author

Ofir Nachmani is Chief Evangelist and Community Leader at Newvem. On his previous adventure, he led ClickSoftware’s Cloud adoption initiative. He also held several positions at Zarathustra SaaS development including ContractorOffice.com product manager and company CEO. In 2009, ClickSoftware acquired the AST group and Zarathustra as part of it. Check out his personal cloud computing blog at http://www.iamondemand.com | Twitter: @iamondeamnd

Keywords: Amazon cloud, Cloud utilization, Cloud costs, Efficient cloud, Cloud Consumption, High Availability, Cloud Security