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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
6
Part 2: Building a Successful Technology Operating Model for Your Organization
8
Chapter 6: Your Distributed Technology Operating Model in Action

Your Distributed Technology Operating Model in Action

In the previous chapter, we learned how to create our best-fit distributed cloud and edge operating model. We followed six main steps to determine our operating model dimensions for each operating model stream and, subsequently, our complete technology operating model. We placed our stakeholders into stream teams and grouped dimensions under each stream, which the stream teams own, and subsequently built out an operating model. We discussed how to create stakeholder mappings and how to use them to run workshops to build the operating model. We then elaborated on each dimension. In this chapter, we will put the operating model concept to use. By the end of this chapter, we will have learned how to do the following:

  • Build a distributed cloud and edge technology operating model while following the process defined in Chapter 5, for an insurance organization based on a simulated case study
  • Use the Open Practice Library to...