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Technology Operating Models for Cloud and Edge

By : Ahilan Ponnusamy, Andreas Spanner
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Technology Operating Models for Cloud and Edge

By: Ahilan Ponnusamy, Andreas Spanner

Overview of this book

Cloud goals, such as faster time to market, lower total cost of ownership (TCO), capex reduction, self-service enablement, and complexity reduction are important, but organizations often struggle to achieve the desired outcomes. With edge computing gaining momentum across industries and making it possible to move workloads seamlessly between cloud and edge locations, organizations need working recipes to find ways of extracting the most value out of their cloud and edge estate. This book provides a practical way to build a strategy-aligned operating model while considering various related factors such as culture, leadership, team structures, metrics, intrinsic motivators, team incentives, tenant experience, platform engineering, operations, open source, and technology choices. Throughout the chapters, you’ll discover how single, hybrid, or multicloud architectures, security models, automation, application development, workload deployments, and application modernization can be reutilized for edge workloads to help you build a secure yet flexible technology operating model. The book also includes a case study which will walk you through the operating model build process in a step-by-step way. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build your own fit-for-purpose distributed technology operating model for your organization in an open culture way.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
1
Part 1:Enterprise Technology Landscape and Operating Model Challenges
6
Part 2: Building a Successful Technology Operating Model for Your Organization
8
Chapter 6: Your Distributed Technology Operating Model in Action

Part 1:Enterprise Technology Landscape and Operating Model Challenges

In this part, you will get an introduction to key concepts associated with a cloud operating model, see an overview of the enterprise technology landscape, and learn how Gartner’s pace layered architecture can be used to classify applications and infrastructure based on key characteristics. It also covers why previously hyped concepts such as Bimodal IT didn’t take off, distills knowledge about its limitations, and explains the reasons why the future will be distributed for organizations.

This part has the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, Fundamentals of the Cloud Operating Model
  • Chapter 2, Enterprise Technology Landscape Overview
  • Chapter 3, Addressing Diverse Technology Landscapes with Bimodal IT and Its Limitations
  • Chapter 4, Approaching Your Distributed Future