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Flexera Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
APMdigest

Brian Adler, Senior Director of Cloud Market Strategy at Flexera, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.

At Flexera, Adler is responsible for providing thought leadership to customers, prospects, and the IT community at large regarding the technical aspects of organizational cloud journeys, from strategy, adoption, migration, and cost optimization. Prior to Flexera, he was a cloud infrastructure and operations analyst at Gartner, providing guidance and insight to enterprise clients during all phases of cloud adoption. He also spent over eight years at RightScale (acquired by Flexera in 2018) as the Director of Enterprise Architecture, assisting clients with the adoption and integration of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform.

Flexera helps organizations understand and maximize the value of their technology, saving billions of dollars in wasted spend. Powered by the Flexera Technology Intelligence Platform, the company's hybrid IT asset management and FinOps solutions provide comprehensive visibility and actionable insights on an organization's entire IT ecosystem. This intelligence enables IT, finance, procurement and cloud teams to address skyrocketing costs, optimize spend, mitigate risk, and identifies opportunities to create positive business outcomes.

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Flexera Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
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Brian Adler, Senior Director of Cloud Market Strategy at Flexera, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.

At Flexera, Adler is responsible for providing thought leadership to customers, prospects, and the IT community at large regarding the technical aspects of organizational cloud journeys, from strategy, adoption, migration, and cost optimization. Prior to Flexera, he was a cloud infrastructure and operations analyst at Gartner, providing guidance and insight to enterprise clients during all phases of cloud adoption. He also spent over eight years at RightScale (acquired by Flexera in 2018) as the Director of Enterprise Architecture, assisting clients with the adoption and integration of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform.

Flexera helps organizations understand and maximize the value of their technology, saving billions of dollars in wasted spend. Powered by the Flexera Technology Intelligence Platform, the company's hybrid IT asset management and FinOps solutions provide comprehensive visibility and actionable insights on an organization's entire IT ecosystem. This intelligence enables IT, finance, procurement and cloud teams to address skyrocketing costs, optimize spend, mitigate risk, and identifies opportunities to create positive business outcomes.

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