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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

The diversity and complexity involved

The enterprise landscape involves different types of applications with variable characteristics across the Systems of Innovation, Systems of Differentiation, and Systems of Record layers, as categorized in Gartner’s pace layered architecture. These variations can be classified under two categories:

  • Application architecture
  • Infrastructure architecture

Let’s take a look.

Application architecture

The application architecture differs from monolithic applications in Systems of Record to the cloud-native microservices architecture and functions in the Systems of Innovation layers. We’ll look at the application architecture’s characteristics and goals across these layers in this section.

Systems of Record

Systems of Record acts as the single source of truth for an organization’s core business data and processes. Applications in the Systems of Record layer are typically built with traditional...