Technology Operating Models for Cloud and Edge: Create your purpose-built distributed operating model for public, hybrid, multicloud, and edge

Build your technology operating model and a performance culture in alignment with your organization's goals and strategies. Enable leadership, engineering and operations to tame the complexities of the distributed future.

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Key Features

• Get hands-on with creating your operating model across on-premises, cloud, and edge
• Learn about operating model dimensions and how to group, construct and scope them
• Tackle operating model complexities like architecture, stakeholder management, platform operations, compliance and technology selection

Book Description

Faster time to market, lower total cost of ownership (TCO), reduced capex, enabling self-service or reduced complexity are important cloud goals but their desired outcomes don’t always materialize. With Edge Computing making its way through all industries on top of ongoing journeys to the cloud (and back), it’s vital to share working recipes for organizations to find their way of extracting the most value out of their cloud and edge estate.

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’ll 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.

What you will learn

• Holistic view of technology operating model and it's linked organization goals, strategy, and teams
• Overcoming challenges of extending tech operating model to distributed cloud and edge
• Key architectural considerations in building the operating models
• How to effectively manage enterprise workloads to maximize benefits
• Explore the benefits of using Enterprise-ready open source products
• How Open Hybrid Cloud and modern dev and ops practices improve outcomes

Who This Book Is For

As a cloud architect, solutions architect, DevSecOps or platform engineering lead, program manager, CIO, CTO, or Chief Digital Officer, if you’re tasked to lead cloud and edge computing initiatives, create architectures, Enterprise capability models, align budgets or show your board the value of your technology investments, then this book is for you. This book will help you define and build your cloud and edge computing capabilities around a fit-for-purpose technology operating model. With prior knowledge of cloud computing, application development, and edge computing concepts you will get most out of this book.

Table of Contents

1. Fundamentals of the Cloud operating model
2. Landscaping your Enterprise Technology
3. Addressing diverse technology landscape with bimodal IT
4. Marching towards a hybrid & distributed future
5. Architecting a Hybrid cloud operating model
6. Overcoming complexities in operating a Hybrid cloud
7. Building and operating a hybrid cloud
8. Working with Red Hat products and solutions
9. Fitting it all together

Ahilan Ponnusamy is a GTM specialist for Application Platform at Red Hat based in Singapore. He enjoys working with customers to deliver real value on hybrid cloud architectures and cloud-native application development and delivery practices. Ahilan completed his Master of Computer Applications from MKU, India in 1999. His work history includes the likes of Philips CE in Eindhoven Netherlands, BEA technologies as a member of Customer Centric Engineering and support in India and USA, Pre-sales Tech-lead for cloud platform team at Oracle USA, Principal platform engineer at VMware, Global Architect at Dell Technologies Singapore.Originally from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, Ahilan currently resides in Singapore with his wife and two boys.