The Managers Guide to The Cloud The Next Paradigm in Computing

Cloud computing will transform every company, and to an increasing degree, the world in which we live.  But today there is no readable, accurate and comprehensive manager’s guide.

The Manager’s Guide to the Cloud captures and explains today’s emerging revolution in cloud computing. technology and key related technologies.  But most importantly, it highlights the transformative possibilities, if not certainties for people, business, and society. 

With a focus on the transformational effect of these emerging, if not outright erupting technologies.   Detailed in the second will be the what and how’s of Serverless computing and Containers, Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure as Code, Blockchain, Data Services, and overall Business Intelligence. We will explain over the next decade, how these transformative technologies will drive the fourth industrial revolution now in its infancy.  

This book both educates why and explains how it is both necessary and urgent to leverage the most fundamental change in enterprise technology since the advent of the Internet.

Part I  – The Cloud Revolution
Ch. 1:  The Dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Ch. 2: The Emerging Technologies and the Companies Vaporizing Old Paradigms 
Ch. 3:  Chapter Three: Why the Cloud is Less About Where, and More About How
Ch. 4: The Simplest Business Case for raising your Computing to the Cloud 

Part II -  The Technology Driving It
Ch. 5:  Breakthrough Technologies now available optimized for the Cloud
Ch.6:  Big Data, what it is and What it Enables
Ch.7:  Artificial Intelligence, what it is, how it Does it, and Why Suddenly Now?
         How Blockchain (surprisingly) broke Murphy’s Law 
Ch.8:  The Transformational Effects of Those that Have Made the Journey
  (Corporate success stories here, with many C-level interviews and quotes) 

Part III -  The Path to Rise to the Cloud  (0r -   How to Get There)
Ch. 9:    The Opportunities enabled by the Cloud
Ch.10:    The Cloud as a Strategy as Opposed to a Platform
Ch.11:   From Frameworks to Pilots, how to Begin the Journey Securely
Ch.12:   The New Business Models Enabled by the Cloud

Part IV -   What it Means for Our Future
Ch 13:   The Challenges of a Cloud Transformation
Ch 14:   The Benefits to a Successful Journey on your company and society
Ch 15:   The dangers if we lose control
Ch 16:   Your Role as a Leader for the Next Paradigm for the Digital Age

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