The company, a leading IT services and consulting provider catering to B2B sales, marketing, and customer success departments, was facing difficulties in optimizing and making the most of its cloud investments. The challenges included expensive VM sprawl, limited visibility into resource consumption and costs, and a lack of readiness for migration to a containerized environment. The company has a significant presence, with over 3000 employees and operations in over 170 countries. However, these challenges were hindering its ability to fully leverage its cloud infrastructure and achieve cost-efficiency, scalability, and availability goals.

The company, a global leader in insurance broking and risk advisory with a presence in 130 countries and a headcount of 45,000, was facing difficulties in monitoring its cloud resources. The challenges included a lack of centralized cloud cost monitoring, control over dangling and idle resources, visibility into cloud costs for development teams, and anomaly detection and predictive capabilities.

Apiiro, a cloud-native application security platform, was faced with the challenge of providing complete visibility of all application components to security and development teams. This was crucial in order to map the application attack surface and proactively remediate critical risks before releasing to the cloud. The complexity of security issues was increasing as software development accelerated and businesses used agile models to deploy more apps at a faster rate. Traditional application security tools were proving ineffective in improving a company's security posture due to the intricate combination of multiple factors that contribute to risks. Furthermore, Apiiro needed to ensure near-perfect uptimes to deliver resilience and grow its business on Google Marketplace.

Proudsmart Cloud is a private company offering Industrial Internet of Things operations and services. The firm was founded in July 2015, Beijing, China.

Getup is specialised in Open Source technologies like Containers, Kubernetes and openshift to deliver speed and efficiency in software development and application management. We recently were recognized as a Cool Vendor 2017 by Gartner.

Clever Cloud is a Europe-based PaaS company. They help developers deploy and run their apps with bulletproof infrastructure, automatic scaling, fair pricing and other cool features. They aim to make an easy-to-use service, without any vendor lock-in and able to grow with your needs.