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

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

• 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

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.

• 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

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.

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