Overview
Making fast and accurate technology decisions is critical to staying relevant to your customers. And technology needs to add value back to your organization quicker than ever. Google Cloud offers IT leaders the answer to today’s technology challenges. However, to realize its benefits you must navigate your journey without hitting common pitfalls that lead to stalled and unsuccessful cloud adoption. This book distills the lessons learned from guiding and working with hundreds of organizations on their journey to the cloud. Its goal is to give aspiring and current IT leaders the knowledge required to be an infrastructure leader. That is the term author Jeremy Lloyd uses for the person who can lead your organization's Google Cloud adoption strategy. Of course, cloud adoption isn’t a solo endeavor. Jeremy covers the different generations of IT leaders, the team structure, and the skills required for a successful migration to Google Cloud. This book also covers why you should choose Google Cloud, how to build a business case for the cloud, and defining your adoption/migration/modernization strategies and cloud operating model. Finally, the book covers how to empower your developers to deploy cloud-native applications and how to support day two operations once you have moved to Google Cloud. What You Will Learn Use Google Cloud to add value to your organization Define and lead your Google Cloud adoption strategy Migrate and modernize your workloads Operate workloads once in Google Cloud and avoid antipatterns Understand how the infrastructure team can be enablers for cloud-native development Who This Book Is ForCurrent infrastructure/IT/technology leaders who need guidance for their Google Cloud adoption, migration, and modernization journey; IT managers, IT team leads and IT professionals aspiring to be the next IT leaders who must learn to navigate more than just technical complexity.
Full Product Details
Author: Jeremy Lloyd
Publisher: APress
Imprint: APress
Edition: 1st ed.
Weight: 0.743kg
ISBN: 9781484288191
ISBN 10: 148428819
Pages: 363
Publication Date: 15 December 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Author Information
Jeremy Lloyd has over 20 years of experience in IT. He has spent the last eight years helping organizations worldwide adopt and migrate to the cloud. During this time, he’s guided and advised technology leaders from some of the world’s most well-known companies on their cloud adoption, migration and modernization strategies. In addition, he is a mentor to technology leaders and a speaker at numerous events across the UK and internationally.
