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.
