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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
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Chapter 6: Your Distributed Technology Operating Model in Action

Top reasons for hybrid cloud adoption

As far as the reasons for hybrid cloud adoption go, we can classify them into two different categories:

  • Business reasons
  • Technology reasons

We shall discuss these classifications in detail here.

Business reasons

Hybrid cloud adoption doesn’t always need to be a technical decision – in fact, most reasons for adoption or organically evolving to a hybrid cloud are not technical at all. This section focuses on the key business drivers in hybrid cloud adoption, which are as follows:

  • Flexibility
  • Cost optimization
  • Reduce vendor lock-in risk
  • Address everchanging security and compliance requirements
  • Minimize business disruption

Let’s get started.

Flexibility

A hybrid cloud allows organizations to choose the best deployment option and location for their specific needs – that is, a new cloud-native application can be deployed on one public cloud provider of choice and...