We ran a series on how the tech industry is reacting to the global economic crisis and how it can help organizations have better control over their operations so they continue to grow and innovate by becoming more cost effective. In this video, we gain great insights from Lukas Gentele, Co-Founder and CEO of Loft Labs, Joseph George, VP Product Management for Digital Service and Operations Management at BMC Software, Tim Kevin, Director of Sales, Qarik Group, Roi Ravhon, Co-Founder and CEO at Finout, Kit Merker, Chief Growth Officer at Nobl9, Prabhjot Singh Sethi,VP Engineering, Coredge and Rob Hirschfeld, CEO and Co-Founder of RackN.

“The first thing is to not lose track of all the tools and what everybody’s purchasing.” – Lukas Gentele, Co-Founder and CEO of Loft Labs (Check full interview here)

“[Look at ] technology that helps you look at that, look at your patterns of usage, understand where there’s opportunities for optimization, when you’ve got idle resources, especially in modern Kubernetes environments.” – Joseph George, VP Product Management for Digital Service and Operations Management at BMC Software (Check full interview here)

“Think about it in terms of the infrastructure cost of moving to the cloud, running more efficiently, and then optimizing for it. Also, how is developer productivity and developer time as a cost being incorporated into my cloud strategy.” – Tim Kevin, Director of Sales, Qarik Group (Check full interview here)

“Don’t try to do everything yourself. At the end of the day, you need to figure out what is your core business and stick to that. You either collaborate or work with partners for the rest of the things.” – Prabhjot Singh Sethi, VP Engineering, Coredge (Check full interview here)

“The simplest one is to find KPIs that make sense for judging your effectiveness.” – Rob Hirschfeld, CEO and Co-Founder of RackN (Check full interview here)

“Don’t just cut costs without the context. The idea of being able to make your service and team efficient needs the context of the value that you’re paying for.” – Kit Merker, Chief Growth Officer at Nobl9 (Check full interview here)

“Just buying a tool or optimizing costs or firing people is not enough. You need company-wide cultural change” – Roi Ravhon, Co-Founder and CEO at Finout (Check full interview here)