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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

Acknowledgments

This book wouldn’t have been possible without the help of others. Our employers were the very first to give us work, which helped us gain insights to write this book. We would also like to thank our families for giving us space and time to go through this long 6+ months journey.

But most importantly, our reviewers. We carefully selected our reviewers because of their expertise but also because of their personalities and the fact that our reviewers will all call out things that “don’t seem right.” All this is important to create a book of value for our readers, our industry, and the economy that thrives on business value creation. For that, we’d like to particularly thank the following:

  • Katherine Squire, Senior Vice President, Engineering, Culture Amp
  • Thenna Raj, Head of IT, Woolworths
  • Guillaume Poulet-Mathis, Director of Product Engineering, Optus
  • John Heaton, Chief Technology Officer, Alex Bank
  • Niraj Naidu...