Cloud computing is the most significant technology development of our lifetimes. It has made countless new businesses possible and presents a massive opportunity for large enterprises to innovate like startups and retire decades of technical debt. But making the most of the cloud requires much more from enterprises than just a technology change.
Stephen Orban led Dow Jones’s journey toward digital agility as their CIO and now leads AWS’s Enterprise Strategy function, where he helps leaders from the largest companies in the world transform their businesses. As he demonstrates in this book, enterprises must re-train their people, evolve their processes, and transform their cultures as they move to the cloud. By bringing together his experiences and those of a number of business leaders, Orban shines a light on what works, what doesn’t, and how enterprises can transform themselves using the cloud.
Author(s): Stephen Orban
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 301
Tags: cloud, internet, server
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Title Page
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Table of Contents
Foreword: Andy Jassy, CEO, Amazon Web Services
Foreword: Adrian Cockcroft
Foreword: Mark Schwartz
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: My Journey to the Cloud
Part I: The Stages of Adoption
Chapter 2: Getting Started with the Cloud?
Chapter 3: 4 Foundational Investments for Your Cloud Journey
Chapter 4: Considering a Mass Migration to the Cloud?
Chapter 5: A Process for Mass Migrations to the Cloud
Chapter 6: 6 Strategies for Migrating Applications to the Cloud
Chapter 7: Cloud Native or Lift-and-Shift
Chapter 8: 4 Reasons to Reconsider Lift-and-Shift to the Cloud by Joe Chung, Enterprise Strategist & Evangelist at AWS
Chapter 9: Yes, You Can Migrate Your Mainframe to the Cloud
Chapter 10: Always Be Reinventing & The Cloud of Youth
Part II: 7 Best Practices
Best Practice One: Provide Executive Support
Chapter 11: Today’s IT Executive Is a Chief Change Management Officer
Chapter 12: Today’s CIO on Merging Business with Technology
Chapter 13: What Makes Good Leaders Great?
Chapter 14: Great Leaders Make New Rules
Best Practice Two: Educate Staff
Chapter 15: You Already Have the People You Need to Succeed with the Cloud
Chapter 16: 11 Things to Consider When Educating Your Staff on Cloud
Chapter 17: A Must-Have Secret Weapon to Modernize Your Business: Training Your Team on Cloud
Chapter 18: A 12-Step Program to Get from Zero to Hundreds of AWS-Certified Engineers
Best Practice Three: Create A Culture Of Experimentation
Chapter 19: Create a Culture of Experimentation Enabled by the Cloud
Chapter 20: 4 Dos and Don’ts When Using the Cloud to Experiment
Best Practice Four: Pick The Right Partners
Chapter 21: Accelerate Your Cloud Strategy with Partners
Chapter 22: Don’t Let Traditional Managed Services Providers Hold Your Cloud Strategy Back
Chapter 23: The Future of Managed Services in the Cloud
Best Practice Five: Create A Cloud Center Of Excellence
Chapter 24: How to Create a Cloud Center of Excellence in Your Enterprise
Chapter 25: Staffing Your Enterprise’s Cloud Center of Excellence
Chapter 26: Common Responsibilities for Your Cloud Center of Excellence
Chapter 27: Your Enterprise’s Flywheel to the Cloud
Chapter 28: Considering DevOps in Your Enterprise?
Chapter 29: Two Reasons Customer Service is Key to Enterprise DevOps
Chapter 30: Enterprise DevOps: Why You Should Run What You Build
Chapter 31: Enterprise DevOps: What to Expect When You’re DevOps’ing
Best Practice Six: Implement A Hybrid Architecture
Chapter 32: Three Myths About Hybrid Architectures Using the Cloud
Chapter 33: A Hybrid Cloud Architecture Ah-Ha! Moment
Best Practice Seven: Implement A Cloud-First Strategy
Chapter 34: What Cloud-First Looks Like
Part III: Other Voices/Other Views
Chapter 35: Capital One’s Cloud Journey Through the Stages of Adoption by Terren Peterson, Vice President, Platform Engineering -Retail & Direct Bank at Capital One
Chapter 36: Cox Automotive’s Road Trip: Speeding to the Cloud by Bryan Landerman, Chief Technology Officer, Cox Automotive
Chapter 37: AQR Capital’s Cloud Journey: The First Production Application Neal Pawar, CTO and Michael Raposa, VP, Cloud Services, AQR Capital
Chapter 38: New York Public Library’s Cloud Journey by Jay Haque, Information Technology Executive, The New York Public Library
Chapter 39: Channel 4 Builds Retention, Revenue, and Reach by Making the Move to AWS by Barry O’Reilly, founder of ExecCamp and co-author Lean Enterprise
Chapter 40: The Future Waits for Nobody—My Capital One Journey to the AWS Cloud by Jonathan Allen, EMEA Enterprise Strategist and Evangelist at AWS
Chapter 41: The Devolution of IT: How SGN, A Major Utility Provider in Europe, Is Modernizing IT Using the Cloud by Paul Hannan, CTO, SGN
Chapter 42: Cloud-Based Agility in Responding to Disasters: An American Red Cross Story by Mark Schwartz, Enterprise Strategist, AWS
Chapter 43: Never Let the Future Disturb You—My Journey to the Cloud by Thomas Blood, EMEA Enterprise Strategist, AWS
Chapter 44: Why the Commercial Sector Should Learn from Government IT (and Not Vice Versa) by Mark Schwartz, Enterprise Strategist, AWS
Chapter 45: Don’t Fly Solo on Your Migration—Use the Cloud Buddy System by Philip Potloff, Enterprise Strategist, AWS
Chapter 46: Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast: Friedkin’s Journey Toward XOIT & High-Multiple Cultures by Natty Gur, CIO, The Friedkin Group
Chapter 47: The Fast and the Furious: How the Evolution of Cloud Computing Is Accelerating Builder Velocity by Ilya Epshteyn, Enterprise Solutions Architect – AWS Solution Architecture at AWS
Chapter 48: Tenets Provide Essential Guidance on Your Cloud Journey by Joe Chung, Enterprise Strategist & Evangelist at AWS
Chapter 49: Building a Center of Excellence (CoE) team to transform your Tech Organization Milin Patel, Principal Architect and Co-Founder, Rearc
Chapter 50: Driving Change and Managing Innovation in a Cloud-First Business Reinvention by Joe Chung, Enterprise Strategist & Evangelist at AWS
Chapter 51: 3 Benefits of Automating Compliance in the Cloud Thomas Blood, EMEA Enterprise Strategist, AWS
Chapter 52: Lowering the Cost of Curiosity by Mark Schwartz, Enterprise Strategist at AWS
Chapter 53: 12 Steps to Get Started with the Cloud by Jonathan Allen, Enterprise Strategist & Evangelist at AWS
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