The Cloud Adoption Playbook
Proven Strategies for Transforming Your Organization with the Cloud
1. Auflage Juni 2018
272 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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.
Introduction xxiii
1 Business Drivers 1
2 Framework Overview 11
3 Strategy 27
4 Culture and Organization 57
5 Architecture and Technology 83
6 Security and Compliance 107
7 Emerging Innovation Spaces 127
8 Methodology 137
9 Service Management and Operations 159
10 Governance 203
Conclusion 215
Notes 219
Index 223