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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)
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Part 1:Enterprise Technology Landscape and Operating Model Challenges
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Part 2: Building a Successful Technology Operating Model for Your Organization
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Chapter 6: Your Distributed Technology Operating Model in Action

Summarizing our journey thus far

We have covered quite a bit of ground in this book.

Our path started off with looking at the challenges that the journey to the cloud has thrown at organizations and why – with edge making its way in every industry – we can’t continue the same way we started off our journey to the cloud. We urged leadership to stay away from confusing marketing slogans such as cloud-first strategy and explained why we have this stance.

We demystified terms such as strategy, tactics, mission, vision, goals, capability, and objectives and explained how they relate to each other.

We then revisited research on organizational cultures completed by Dr. Ron Westrum and how to create performance-oriented cultures. We did this because it is the reason why we chose the workshop practices we outline in this book. And to be precise, this in turn is to help create a culture with a high level of collaboration, information sharing, and open communication...