INFRASTRUCTURE LEADER?S GUIDE TO GOOGLE CLOUD IBD

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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 LearnUse Google Cloud to add value to your organizationDefine and lead your Google Cloud adoption strategy Migrate and modernize your workloadsOperate workloads once in Google Cloud and avoid antipatternsUnderstand how the infrastructure team can be enablers for cloud-native developmentWho 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.