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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

Enterprise Technology Landscape Overview

Before we start discussing the enterprise technology landscape, it is important to define what an enterprise is as it could mean different things to different people. An enterprise is a business or organization that is engaged in commercial, industrial, or service segments. Enterprises come in different shapes and sizes, from five-member startups to large multinational corporations with hundreds of thousands of employees distributed globally. They also operate in a variety of industries, such as manufacturing, retail, finance, technology, and healthcare. The main goal of a typical enterprise is to generate profits (apart from non-profits). Most enterprises also have other auxiliary goals, such as growth, innovation, social responsibility, and environmental impact. There are many different types of enterprises and corporations. Each type has its own legal and financial structure, and the type of enterprise that a business chooses will depend...