# Cloud Harmony: Eliminating Infrastructure Siloes

## Speakers

Kurt Hopfer  
Director, Cloud Application Architecture, Effectual

Anirban Chatterjee  
Director, Product Marketing, Rafay

These challenges not only impede productivity but also increase business risks and contribute to cloud lock-in. To address these challenges, organizations must prioritize centralization, standardization, and automation of cloud infrastructure configurations for application team consumption. This involves:

- Implementing generic tech stack focused Golden Paths to shepherd application teams onto the platform
- Providing standardized clusters and namespaces
- Implementing multi-tenancy to enhance utilization
- Centralizing management with operational control across all cloud environments
- Enforcing compliance
- Streamlining complex lifecycle processes using defined workflows and GitOps methodologies

Join [Kurt Hopfer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurt-h-1707099/) and [Anirban Chatterjee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anirbanc/) as we explore practical strategies (designed by developers, for developers) in building a cohesive cloud infrastructure strategy through platform engineering that fosters efficiency, agility, and resilience across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.