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The Cloud Adoption Playbook

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

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The Cloud Adoption Playbook
Moe Abdula | Ingo Averdunk | Roland Barcia | Kyle Brown | Ndu Emuchay
Mar, 2018 | 272 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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1
Cover
Cover
2
Title Page
Title Page
3
Foreword
Foreword
4
Introduction
Introduction
Who This Book Is For
Sports Analogies or the Lack Thereof
What to Expect in Our Playbook
Notes
5
1 Business Drivers
1 Business Drivers
Addressing Challenges for the Enterprise
What Drives a Business to the Cloud?
What Do You Gain from Cloud?
Implications to the Enterprise
Summary
Notes
6
2 Framework Overview
2 Framework Overview
The Framework
Ten Key Actions of the Framework
Summary
Note
7
3 Strategy
3 Strategy
What Does a Cloud Strategy Mean for the CIO?
What Do We Really Mean by “Strategy”?
Developing a Cloud Strategy
What Are the Complete Dimensions of a Cloud Strategy?
What Key Considerations Should a Cloud Strategy Address?
What Prescriptive Steps Are Required to Develop a Cloud Strategy?
Summary
Notes
8
4 Culture and Organization
4 Culture and Organization
What Does the Cloud Mean for Human Resources?
What Do We Really Mean by “Culture”?
Basic Squad Organization
Advantages of a COC
Summary
Note
9
5 Architecture and Technology
5 Architecture and Technology
What Does Cloud Adoption Mean for Enterprise Architects?
Role of Enterprise Architects in Cloud Adoption
Example Microservices Reference Architecture
Reference Implementations
Summary
10
6 Security and Compliance
6 Security and Compliance
What Does the Cloud Mean to the CISO?
Will My People, Processes, Tools, and Approaches Change?
How Is Cloud Adoption Affected by Compliance Issues?
How Do I Protect Against Data Breaches and Loss?
How Do I Protect Against Networking Vulnerabilities?
What Does a Secure Cloud-Native System Look Like?
Identity and Access Management for Applications
Secure DevOps
How Do I Get Visibility to My Cloud Applications?
Summary
Note
11
7 Emerging Innovation Spaces
7 Emerging Innovation Spaces
Innovation as a Business Driver
Examples of Innovation
Summary
Notes
12
8 Methodology
8 Methodology
What Does the Cloud Mean for the VP of the VP of Method & and Tools?
Introducing the IBM Cloud Garage Method
Connections between Cloud and Agile
Lean Startup and Lean Development
Why Design Thinking Is the Missing Link
Starting a Project with the IBM Cloud Garage Method
Wrapping Up the Workshop
Our Approach to Project Inception
Starting Development
The Role of Technology Choices
Expanding to Deliver the MVP
The Role of Testing in the Squad Model
Customer Example
Summary
Notes
13
9 Service Management and Operations
9 Service Management and Operations
What Does Cloud Mean for the VP of Operations?
Operational Transformation
New Roles
Operational Readiness
Incident Management
Root-Cause Analysis and Postmortems
Deployment, Release Management, and Change Management
Configuration Management
Summary
Notes
14
10 Governance
10 Governance
Cloud Challenges
Aspects of a Governance Model
Defining a Governance Model
Summary
15
Conclusion
Conclusion
Keep Calm and Adopt Cloud Successfully
An Open Invitation
16
Index
Index
17
End User License Agreement
End User License Agreement

Operational Readiness

Organizations have to follow a set of guidelines to ensure that they can effectively operate and manage risks. These guidelines are based on common sense as well as experience. Certain industries impose additional guidelines on companies to ensure that operational risk is contained so as to not negatively affect users or the ecosystem. Examples of the latter are Basel-2 and HIPAA.

As companies adopt cloud technologies and move workloads to the cloud, existing guidelines have to be adapted. In this section, we discuss this topic from two viewpoints:

  • Is the cloud operationally ready for the company?
  • Is the application that’s moving to the cloud operationally ready?

Operationalizing the cloud

As a company adopts a new platform, its processes, roles, and responsibilities must be revisited to determine whether they still apply or need to be tailored. The same is true when you adopt a public, dedicated, or private cloud.

Using a RACI matrix

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