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The Cloud Adoption Playbook

By : Moe Abdula, Ingo Averdunk, Roland Barcia, Kyle Brown, Ndu Emuchay
Book Image

The Cloud Adoption Playbook

By: Moe Abdula, Ingo Averdunk, Roland Barcia, Kyle Brown, Ndu Emuchay

Overview of this book

As cloud technologies continue to challenge the fundamental understanding of how businesses work, smart companies are moving quickly to adapt to a changing set of rules. Adopting the cloud requires a clear roadmap backed by use cases, grounded in practical real-world experience, to show the routes to successful adoption. The Cloud Adoption Playbook helps business and technology leaders in enterprise organizations sort through the options and make the best choices for accelerating cloud adoption and digital transformation. Written by a team of IBM technical executives with a wealth of real-world client experience, this book cuts through the hype, answers your questions, and helps you tailor your cloud adoption and digital transformation journey to the needs of your organization.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Cover
2
Title Page
3
Foreword
16
Index
17
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What Does Cloud Mean for the VP of Operations?

Operations is a well-defined discipline with many years of experience manifested by organization, processes, and tools. As applications and workload move to the cloud, the established service management and operations processes must be revisited. The goal must be to reach a balance among service reliability, higher velocity, and productivity to respond more quickly to market opportunities and threats. If you don’t reach a balance between both positions, the result will be conflict among departments, often paired with distrust.

The issue is that traditional IT service management (ITSM) processes are perceived as being cumbersome, complex, and in conflict with practices such as Agile and DevOps. This perception results in solutions being built and used inside organizations without explicit approval — a situation sometimes called Shadow IT. Unfortunately, Shadow IT can lead to compliance issues, inefficiencies, and organizational...