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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

Introduction to bimodal IT

Gartner introduced bimodal IT in 2014 as a way for organizations to better manage their IT operations and stay competitive in the digital era. Gartner defines bimodal IT as “the practice of managing two separate, coherent modes of IT delivery, one focused on stability (Mode 1) and the other on agility (Mode 2).” Mode 1 focuses on maintaining and managing the existing technology landscape, while Mode 2 focuses on quickly developing and deploying new applications/features to meet the changing needs of the business. The goal of bimodal IT is to align IT with the overall goals of the organization and simplify complexity and manage costs while maintaining the necessary level of service. Mode 1 is traditional and sequential, with a focus on safety and accuracy. From the previous chapter, where we covered applications and infrastructure categorization, you can think of Mode 1 as the model that supports Systems of Record applications and traditional...