Technology Operating Models for Cloud and Edge

Align your operating model with your organization's goals and enable leadership, culture, 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 how to group, construct, and scope operating model dimensions
• Tackle operating model complexities like architecture, stakeholder management, platform operations, compliance, security, and technology selection

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Get a holistic view of technology operating models and linked organization goals, strategy, and teams
• Overcome challenges of extending tech operating models to distributed cloud and edge environments
• Discover key architectural considerations in building operating models
• Explore the benefits of using enterprise-ready open-source products
• Understand how open hybrid cloud and modern dev and ops practices improve outcomes

Who this book is for

If you are a cloud architect, solutions architect, DevSecOps or platform engineering manager, CTO, CIO, or IT decision maker tasked with leading cloud and edge computing initiatives, creating architectures and enterprise capability models, aligning budgets, or showing your board the value of your technology investments, then this book is for you. Prior knowledge of cloud computing, application development, and edge computing concepts will help you get the most out of this book.

Table of Contents

1. Fundamentals for an Operating Model
2. Enterprise Technology Landscape Overview
3. Learnings From Bimodal IT's Failure
4. Approaching Your Distributed Future
5. Building Your Distributed Technology Operating Model
6. Your Distributed Technology Operating Model in Action
7. Implementing Distributed Cloud and Edge Platforms with Enterprise Open Source Technologies
8. Into the Beyond

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.

Andreas Spanner is currently working as Chief Architect within the CTO Organization at Red Hat. Prior to his role as the Chief Architect for Australia & New Zealand, Andreas worked across the globe in many different industries ranging from automotive, manufacturing, and supply chain logistics to telco, FSI and public sector on areas such as ERP, CRM, HR, and payroll data and processes migrations, Internet security appliances, and B2B marketplaces. He has delivered Just-In-Time-logistics and series production systems for customers such as BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes.

Andreas completed his engineering degree in Germany and got his first Commodore 64 when he was 12 years old. Originally from Bavaria, Andreas now lives in Sydney, Australia.