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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

Summary

In this chapter, we provided a comprehensive approach in terms of defining your own distributed technology operating model. We listed many concerns and posed even more questions for you to consider, which you hopefully find suitable for your organization.

You are now equipped not only with open principles and practices that help create a high-performance culture but also with a structure that you can apply to define your organization’s best-fit operating model.

In the coming chapters, we will show you how to create your operating model based on an example, while also covering some of the challenges you can encounter and how you can address them.

As a final note, whatever implementations, tooling, or engineering you do within any of your operating model dimensions, I invite you to consider contributing back to an active open source community. That not only establishes you and your organization as a cloud and edge leader, but it also helps raise the tide and hence...