Many companies claim to have “gone to the cloud,” yet returns from their efforts are meager or worse. Why? Because they’ve defined cloud as a destination, not a capability. Using cloud as a single-vendor, one-stop destination is fiction; in practice, today’s organizations use a mosaic of capabilities across several vendors. Your data strategy needs to follow a hybrid multicloud model, one that delivers cloud’s value at destinations you choose.
This practical guide provides business leaders and C-level executives with guidance and insights across a wide range of cloud-related topics, such as distributed cloud, microservices, and other open source solutions for strengthening operations. You’ll apply in-the-field best practices and lessons learned as you define your hybrid cloud strategy and drive your company’s transformation strategy.
1. Cloudy Skies Are the Best Forecast Ever
2. Evolution of Cloud
3. “Cloud Chapter 2”: All the Moving Parts
4. Cloud Computing: Patterns for The What, The How, and The Why
5. Shift Left
6. Hackers, Attackers, and Would-Be Bad Actors: Thoughts on Security for Hybrid Cloud
7. Data Gravity
8. Ecosystem for Automation
