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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

Impact of 5G/6G, IoT, and edge computing

You may be wondering why the impact of 5G/6G, IoT, and edge computing has been put together in this section. We believe they are logically connected in aiding the adoption of hybrid cloud and in delivering edge use cases across the industries. We need to classify edge computing into two different eras:

  • Traditional edge computing (pre-5G)
  • Modern edge computing (post-5G)

The important differences between these eras are the explosion of new use cases and architecture patterns that modern edge computing can support thanks to the reliability, data transfer rate, and security that a 5G/6G network can provide, along with the increased processing capabilities of smart devices. In this section, we will focus on modern edge computing (post-5G).

For modern edge deployments to be successful, we need the following:

  • A reliable high-speed and secured network that’s provided by the 5G/6G network
  • Smart devices capable...