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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)
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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

Approaching Your Distributed Future

Hybrid cloud and edge adoption has been growing steadily and is fastly becoming the standard deployment model for most organizations. In this chapter, we will explain what the hybrid cloud is, how it differs from multicloud, and the various internal and external factors that are shaping hybrid cloud adoption and its distributed future extending into edge computing. By the end of this chapter, we will have addressed the following:

  • Key reasons why enterprises are moving toward a hybrid cloud and edge strategy
  • External factors, from data sovereignty to ever-changing security and compliance requirements and AI/ML use cases that contribute to this journey
  • How a more connected and distributed future with 5G/6G, IoT, and edge computing is playing a role

Let’s start by revisiting what hybrid cloud is and how it differs from multicloud. A hybrid cloud is a diverse computing environment, where different types of infrastructures...