The Cloud Adoption Playbook: Proven Strategies for Transforming Your Organization with the Cloud
£28.50
The essential roadmaps for enterprise cloud adoption
As cloud technologies continue to challenge the fundamental understanding of how businesses work, smart companies are moving quickly to adapt to a changing set of rules. Adopting the cloud requires a clear roadmap backed by use cases, grounded in practical real-world experience, to show the routes to successful adoption. The Cloud Adoption Playbook helps business and technology leaders in enterprise organizations sort through the options and make the best choices for accelerating cloud adoption and digital transformation.
Written by a team of IBM technical executives with a wealth of real-world client experience, this book cuts through the hype, answers your questions, and helps you tailor your cloud adoption and digital transformation journey to the needs of your organization. This book will help you:
- Discover how the cloud can fulfill major business needs
- Adopt a standardized Cloud Adoption Framework and understand the key dimensions of cloud adoption and digital transformation
- Learn how cloud adoption impacts culture, architecture, security, and more
- Understand the roles of governance, methodology, and how the cloud impacts key players in your organization.
Providing a collection of winning plays, championship advice, and real-world examples of successful adoption, this playbook is your ultimate resource for making the cloud work. There has never been a better time to adopt the cloud. Cloud solutions are more numerous and accessible than ever before, and evolving technology is making the cloud more reliable, more secure, and more necessary than ever before. Don’t let your organization be left behind! The Cloud Adoption Playbook gives you the essential guidance you need to make the smart choices that reduce your organizational risk and accelerate your cloud adoption and digital transformation.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (16 Mar. 2018), Wiley |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 272 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 9781119491811 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1119491811 |
| Dimensions | 14.99 x 2.03 x 22.1 cm |
by Peter Eeles
My day job is spent helping organizations improve their ways of working – something I’ve been doing for almost 3 decades and I’ve experienced quite a few different eras of change – from simply optimizing existing processes, to iterative development, to agile, to scaled agile and, finally, DevOps. I’ve known for quite some time that a) the next evolution of best practice would be focused on cloud, that b) any publication of relevance would need to focus on practice (i.e. case studies) over theory and that c) any publication worth its salt would provide a framework to help the uninitiated understand the various dimensions of cloud – especially in terms of its adoption and for organizations looking to transform. There would also need to be a focus on people, as well as process and technology. I’m pleased to say that this publication fits the bill on all fronts and, surprisingly given the broad scope, is a very easy read and certainly one I’ll be recommending to both executives and practitioners alike. The various dimensions discussed speak for themselves and each is treated as an “entry point” to cloud adoption. These entry points are discussed in terms of “dimensions” that include Culture and Organization, Architecture and Technology, Security and Compliance, Emerging Innovation Spaces, Methodology (agile/devops), Service Management and Operations, and Governance. In summary, this book should be considered an essential primer for any organization looking to move to the cloud.