Fireside chat with Rebecca Horton

12 October 2023
2 minute read
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Fireside chat with Rebecca Horton

12 October 2023
2 minute read

From being offered a job she couldn’t even remember applying for to becoming the MD of an entire business unit, it is fair to say Rebecca’s journey through ITAM is an incredible story of determination, hard work and endless creativity.

In this Fireside Chat I speak with the FinOps Ninja herself, Rebecca Horton, MD and business lead at USU. We discuss her role, ITAM likes and dislikes, her impressively-varied and globetrotting career, and of course, FinOps. She also tells us about the question that started it all.

“How do I licence SQL Server on a VMware estate with a hard partition?”

It is often difficult to trace those turning points in our lives; those Sliding Doors moments that send our lives in a totally new direction. Well, for Rebecca, one such moment was receiving this question from a customer when she was working in software sales:

“How do I licence SQL Server on a VMware estate with a hard partition”

Rachel’s life-changing customer…

In seeking the answer to this question, it is safe to say Rebecca’s world changed forever…

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