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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
8
Chapter 6: Your Distributed Technology Operating Model in Action

What’s next?

Firstly, you need to decide whether you need help or are confident to start this journey for your organization by yourself.

If you are ready to start on your own, then start socializing your idea with your colleagues, get executive sponsorship, and follow what’s laid out in Chapters 5, 6, and 7. Kickstart your initiative with the assets made available in our GitHub repository (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Technology-Operating-Models-for-Cloud-and-Edge).

If you need help for the short or medium term, then you can get help from consultants or your partners or contact the authors to help you find a suitable way to get started. Long-term ownership needs to sit within your organization, hence there’s no need to seek long-term support from external entities. Note, if you get consultants and partners, make sure that those individuals have actually built and owned what they built beyond day 2 operations before. There is no point in getting help...