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Technology Operating Models for Cloud and Edge

By : Ahilan Ponnusamy, Andreas Spanner
Book Image

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
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Chapter 6: Your Distributed Technology Operating Model in Action

Into the Beyond

In this book so far, you have learned about the fundamentals of an operating model, been given a technology landscape overview, and read about previous industry attempts to bring structure to operating models. We then leaned into why the future is distributed and the different classifications of edge computing environments, before we presented a step-by-step guide on how to purpose-build your own operating model. To solidify what we have learned, we provided an implementation example based on an anonymized case study to help you apply the learnings in your organization.

In this chapter, we will cover the following additional topics:

  • Operating models for multiple independent operating units across the globe
  • Antifragility
  • Gap analysis
  • Technical debt
  • Undifferentiated heavy lifting
  • How to measure progress
  • Challenges associated with creating and applying your operating model
  • Managing a multitude of options

By the end of this...