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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)
1
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

Preface

Speeding up time to market, lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO), reducing CapEx, enabling self-service, and reducing complexity are important cloud goals; however, the desired outcomes don’t always materialize. With edge computing making its way through all industries on top of ongoing journeys to the public cloud (and back), it’s vital to share working recipes for organizations to find their preferred way of extracting the most value out of their technology investments.

This book demonstrates a practical way of building a strategy-aligned operating model while considering a variety of related aspects such as culture, leadership, team structures, metrics, intrinsic motivators, team incentives, tenant experience for development and product teams, platform engineering, operations, open source, and technology choices – just to name a few. You’ll understand how single, multi, or hybrid cloud architectures, security models, automation, application development, workload deployments, and app modernization can be re-utilized for edge workloads to help you build a secure, yet flexible technology operating model. You will learn how to build a distributed technology operating model using a case study.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build your own fit-for-purpose operating model for your organization in an open culture way.