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 Learn Use Google Cloud to add value to your organization Define
and lead your Google Cloud adoption strategy Migrate and modernize your workloads Operate
workloads once in Google Cloud and avoid antipatterns Understand how the infrastructure team
can be enablers for cloud-native development Who 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.
