Enterprise-Grade Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Strategies: Proven strategies to digitally transform your business with hybrid and multi-cloud solutions

✍ Scribed by Sathya Ag

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 362
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Leverage cloud technologies, proven strategies, and effective frameworks to drive seamless digital transformation.

Key Features

• Understand the challenges enterprises face with cloud adoption and the importance of leadership vision
• Learn how to build the foundation for a vendor agnostic cloud-ready enterprise
• Discover best practices to architect an enterprise cloud strategy and responsibly innovate with emerging technologies
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

In the past decade, cloud technology has evolved from a mere deployment platform into a driving force of innovation. However, navigating the complexities of cloud adoption, especially with a hybrid approach, presents significant challenges. Solving Hybrid Cloud Challenges for Enterprises is your trusted guide to overcome the problems encountered in this process.

Written by a principal architect at Google with 15+ years of experience, this vendor agnostic book begins by exploring the case studies of enterprises stepping into the world of the cloud, highlighting the pivotal role of leadership vision and mindset in driving digital transformation. You'll explore the basics of cloud technology, its impact on various industries, and the challenges of cloud adoption. As you dive deeper, you'll find real-world use cases of enterprises that have digitally disrupted their respective industries by innovating in the cloud. From assessing the cloud maturity of an organization and designing a cloud strategy to exploring the various facets of cloud transformation, this book will guide you at every step of the way. Finally, you'll learn how to lead your organization's cloud transformation journey with emerging technologies.

By the end, you'll be well-equipped to design and architect a scalable, cloud-first IT organization.

What you will learn

• Understand the hybrid cloud and multi-cloud paradigms
• Cultivate leadership will and mindset for crafting successful cloud transformation
• Design and architect a scalable and open foundation for a cloud-first IT organization
• Apply open standards and frameworks to design a vendor-neutral cloud foundation
• Understand the cloud adoption frameworks and conduct maturity assessments
• Realize tangible business value through cloud adoption initiatives

Who this book is for

This book is for cloud architects and engineers responsible for and seeking to digitally transform their business through cloud. Enterprise IT leaders will be able to successfully navigate the enterprise cloud transformation complexities with cloud migration strategies, prescriptive frameworks, and practical real-world examples. A basic understanding of enterprise IT functions and operations is assumed.

Table of Contents

1. The Will, Mindset & Leadership
2. A primer on hybrid & multi-cloud
3. Enterprise Challenges with Cloud Adoption (what should i do with legacy?, where to start?)
4. Building the Foundations for the modern IT enterprise (Org. structure, COE practice, Sandbox, Agility)
5. Pathways to Cloud Adoption
6. Building an open and nimble framework
7. Hybrid Cloud Use Cases
8. Architecting a cloud-ready enterprise
9. Facets of digital transformation (Application Mod, Infra Mod, DevOps, Monitoring, Security
10. Lead and Innovate with Hybrid Cloud
11. ESG and Sustainability

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Foreword
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Challenges with Cloud Adoption at an Enterprise Scale
Chapter 1: Leadership, Will, and Mindset
The Blockbuster case study
Innovation is NOT optional
The innovation continuum
Two tales of leadership, will, and mindset
Leading the digital transformation of enterprise
Summary
Further reading
Chapter 2: A Primer on the Cloud
Essential characteristics of the cloud
Service models
Value drivers of different service models
Cloud deployment models
Driving business agility with cloud
Cloud adoption in different industries
Retail
The store of the future
Point of sale (POS)
E-commerce to omni-commerce
Customer data platform
Supply chain demand planning and forecasting
Associate productivity
Other areas of innovation
Healthcare and life sciences
Banking, financial services, and insurance
Telecommunications
Government
Adopting a hybrid cloud
What is and isn’t a hybrid cloud?
Challenges in adopting a hybrid cloud
Myths of cloud adoption
Myth 1 – the cloud is a one-size-fits-all solution approach
Myth 2 – the cloud creates a vendor dependency and lock-in
Myth 3 – the cloud is more expensive than traditional on-premises
Myth 4 – the cloud is less secure than traditional on-premises
Myth 5 – the cloud is a panacea
Summary
Further readings
Chapter 3: Enterprise Challenges with Cloud Adoption
Where do we start? Complexities of an enterprise IT ecosystem
Tech debt
Business units creating their IT marts
Proprietary private clouds
Data sprawl and integration
Security
Choosing the right cloud strategy
Identifying the right workloads for cloud transformation
Big bang migration
Data center exit
Lift and shift applications to the cloud
Hybrid cloud strategy
Multi-cloud strategy
Choosing the right cloud provider
Business aspects
Technology aspects
Innovation aspects
Security aspects
Dealing with financials
Summary
Part 2: Succeeding with Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud
Chapter 4: Building the Foundations for a Modern Enterprise
Leavitt’s diamond for change management
The golden triangle
People – the foundation of organizational success
Processes – streamlining operations and enhancing efficiency
Technology – enabling innovation and competitive advantage
Enterprise cloud maturity assessment
Cloud Adoption Maturity Model (CAMM)
The people pillar
The process pillar
The technology pillar
Google’s Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
CCoE
Building the foundations for a cloud-ready enterprise
The startup mindset
Everything is a product
Platform as a product
The Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
A focus on CUJs
Embracing open source in the cloud
Summary
Further reading
Chapter 5: An Enterprise Journey to Cloud Transformation
Picking the right cloud initiatives using the multi-dimensional value-complexity matrix
Complexity factors
Business value factors
NPV
Enterprise cloud transformation journeys
Modernizing on-premises applications
Optimizing on-premises data centers
Born in the cloud
Other unique transformation journeys
Cloud migration strategies
The 6 R’s application migration strategies
Hybrid cloud strategies
Dev-test in the cloud, production on-premises
Disaster recovery in the cloud
Cloud bursting
Innovating in the cloud through emerging technologies
IoT
Artificial intelligence
Edge computing
Blockchain
Summary
Further reading
Chapter 6: Building an Open and Nimble Cloud Framework
Assess
Plan
Deploy
Optimize
Various hybrid cloud and multi-cloud deployment patterns
Tiered hybrid cloud pattern
Partitioned multi-cloud pattern
Edge computing deployment pattern
Redundant hybrid deployment pattern
Foundational network blueprints for hybrid and multi-cloud deployment architectures
Meshed hybrid cloud network topology
Multi-cloud network topology
Gated egress hybrid cloud topology
Gated ingress hybrid-cloud topology
Shared network topology
Private hybrid topology
Network peering topology
Edge network topology
Security foundations for enterprises
Shared security models of major CSPs
Designing a security-first cloud architecture
Network security
Identity and access management
Infrastructure security
Application security
Cloud-native anti-patterns
Monolith castles in the cloud
Ignoring resource and cost optimization
Undifferentiated heavy lifting
Bloated containers
Mutable infrastructure
Summary
Further readings
Chapter 7: Hybrid Cloud Use Cases
Airbnb – leading business transformation through technology
Disrupting the hospitality industry
A business born in the cloud
The first architecture
Evolution to microservices
Multi-cloud adoption and transformation
The pandemic and economic slowdown – the optimization phase
Carrefour’s sustainable digital transformation journey
The Carrefour omnichannel strategy
A bold initiative augmented by cloud transformation
Transforming legacy IT to the modern cloud
Carrefour’s IT architecture strategy
Looking ahead – Carrefour’s digital retail 2026 strategy
Wendy’s transforming consumer experiences
Global Next Gen
Reimagining the restaurant experience through technology
Capital One – transforming banking through technology
Capital One’s cloud transformation journey
Capital One’s talent acquisition strategy
Re-architecting the Capital One mobile app on the cloud
Summary
Further reading
Part 3: Lead and Transform Your Business with Cloud
Chapter 8: Architecting a Cloud-Ready Enterprise
Building a framework for a cloud-ready enterprise
Cloud foundation layer
Legacy apps
Application development and operations
API orchestration, and integration layer
Cloud architecture frameworks from major cloud service providers
AWS Well-Architected Framework
Google Cloud Architecture Framework
Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
Private and hybrid cloud strategies
Summary
Further reading
Chapter 9: Facets of Digital Transformation
Building a security-first cloud architecture
Foundational security principles
Automating cloud asset management
IAM
Network security
Application security
Data security
Data sovereignty and data residency
Rethinking infrastructure
Compute infrastructure
Network infrastructure
Storage infrastructure
Application modernization strategy
Traditional application modernization
Cloud-native DevOps
Data modernization
Cloud optimization and cost governance
The inform phase
The optimize phase
The operate phase
Summary
Further readings
Chapter 10: Leading and Innovating with the Cloud
Innovating with the cloud
Setting up innovation labs
Vision and governance
Talent and partnerships
Innovate and deliver
Innovating with big data and serverless
Banking and financial services
Retail
Healthcare
Embedding AI across the enterprise
GenAI
XR
Edge computing
Blockchain
Quantum computing
Responsible uses of emerging technologies
Summary
Further reading
Chapter 11: ESG and Sustainability
Definition of ESG and sustainability
Environmental impact
Social impact
Governance
The value of ESG for enterprises
Stakeholder expectations
Competitive advantage
Long-term business viability
Risk mitigation
Regulatory landscape
Building a sustainability program
ESG reporting standards and frameworks
Double materiality assessment and reporting
Adopting an ESG reporting program
Cloud computing as an ESG enabler
Environmental factors
Social factors
Governance factors
Building sustainable applications in the cloud
Summary
Further reading
Index
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