Negotiate With It: Learn To Reduce Your It Expenses (microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, Sap)

Kim Weins is the Vice President of Cloud Strategy at Flexera, where she helps build awareness of its award-winning cloud management solution. She has held executive marketing positions at a variety of enterprise software startups as well as public software companies. Most recently, as Senior Vice President of Marketing at OpenLogic, she helped evangelize and drive demand for open source and cloud technologies at large enterprises worldwide. She has also consulted as interim CMO at a variety of high-growth startups. Kim received a B.S. in engineering from Duke University.Kim discusses the Flexera 2020 State of the Cloud Report. Kim also shares strategies that companies can use to manage multi-clouds and find and remove cloud waste.Show Notes:[01:01] Kim shares how she got into the enterprise software industry. She is now working closely with CIOs.[01:32] 2012 was the first year the State of the Cloud report came out.[04:05] Private cloud means to have most of the characteristics of the public cloud in a privat