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A Practical Guide to Cloud Migration

Name: A Practical Guide to Cloud Migration
Author: Kieran Broadfoot
ISBN: 9781492095170

by Kieran Broadfoot

February 2021

Beginner to intermediate

124 pages

2h 55m

English

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Foreword
Introduction
Why We Wrote This Report What You Will Learn Who Should Read This Report Acknowledgments
1. Managing a Successful Transformation
Who Why How The Teams The executive team The platform consulting team The internal implementation teams The individual The Methods Leadership Monitoring Progress and Course Correction Learning, Training, and Continuing Education Time Management Pitfalls The Blame Game Unrealistic Project Tracking and Time Management Letting the External Teams Solve the Hard Problems We’re Successful, So Why Change Anything? The Bike Shed Effect
2. Celebrating (and Tweaking) Your Culture
Who Why How Pitfalls Top-Down Direction, Bottom-Up Crickets Teams Can Support Themselves Feelings? Meh.
3. Defining “Good” for Your Organization
Who Why How Defining the End Goal Creating an Action Plan Making Progress Defining Value Measuring Progress Pitfalls Failure to Recognize the Existential Threat I Have 99 Problems, and They Are All Squeaky Crisis-of-the-Day Thinking What a Cute Little Project Fiscal Flexibility at the Cost of Efficacy
4. Framing Your Transformation with Clearly Articulated Policies
WhoWhyHowPitfalls Forgetting that the Journey Is the Goal The Half-Hearted Transformation Building Without a Strong Business Foundation A Transformation in Letter, Not in Spirit
5. Building Leadership Through Decider Groups
Who Why How Pitfalls A Few Loud Voices Dominate Toxic Mindsets Limit Individual Empowerment Lack of Investment in Training Imbalanced or Imprecise Empowerment Lack of Leadership Visibility
6. Developing Centers of Excellence
Who Why How Pitfalls Lack of Effective Communication Process and People Misaligned Culture and Technology Bottlenecks in the CCoE
7. Scaling Innovation
Who Why How Standards and Processes Critical Roles Pitfalls Failure to Provide Autonomy Failure to Provide Broad Access
8. Higher-Order Architectures for Multi-Cloud
WhoWhyHow Applications Data Infrastructure Security Pitfalls Interoperability Between Multiple Clouds Lack of a Common Management Plane Application and Data Portability Issues Poorly Implemented Security and Privacy Inconsistent Day 2 Operations

9. Thinking of Cloud Platforms as a Software Problem
Who Why How Prepare for Platform Modernization Make Decisions on Consistent Tooling Boundaries Defined by Software Let the Tools Do All the Heavy Lifting Keep Optimizing for Everything Pitfalls It Will “Cost” More if You Do It Right But We’ve Always Used This Tool! Software Engineering Is “Just Writing the Code”
10. Making Security Policies Fit-for-Purpose
Who Why How Principles Security Policies and Procedures Security Standards/Technical Implementation Guides Conclusion Pitfalls Moving at the Wrong Speed Internal Adversarial Behaviors
11. 360-Degree Continuous Compliance
Who Why How Pitfalls Doing Something Just Because the Cloud Makes It Possible Avoiding Teachable Moments Hasty Continuous Compliance Architecture
12. Safely Operating at Scale
WhoWhyHowPitfalls Require Reliability Blame
13. Developers—Go Faster, Go Together
Disruption Arrives: Let’s Move to Cloud! Some Benefits Appear Quickly More Benefits Accrue over the Long Term The Transformation Benefits the Organization and the Technology
Conclusion
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Overview

Why do enterprises feel daunted when undertaking a large-scale cloud transformation? A move to the cloud usually offers substantial rewards. Once companies make this transition, they unlock new business opportunities that fundamentally change the way they work. With this report, members of the Google team will show you how to navigate the cultural and technological transformation required to migrate to the cloud.

Although Google is a company born in the cloud, several team members came from organizations that had to painstakingly work through this transition. They share their hard-won experience as they guide you through 13 essays covering the different aspects of a successful cloud transformation, including:

"Managing a Successful Transformation" by Andrew Gold, Strategic Cloud Engineer
"Celebrating (and Tweaking) Your Culture" by Adrienne Walcer, Technical Program Manager, Google SRE
"Framing Your Transformation with Clearly Articulated Policies" by Lydia Thomas, Solutions Consultant, and James Brookbank, Cloud Solutions Architect
"Building Leadership Through Decider Groups" by Joseph Bironas, Solutions Architect
"Developing Centers of Excellence" by Kuntal Mitra, Staff Solutions Consultant
"Scaling Innovation" by Awais Malik, Infrastructure Cloud Consultant

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