Moe Abdula - The cloud adoption playbook: proven strategies for transforming your organization with the cloud

The Cloud Adoption Playbook: Proven strategies for transforming your organization with the cloud

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1. Chapter 6
2. Chapter 9

1. Introduction
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 8
8. Chapter 9
9. Chapter 10

Moe: To my grandmother, a rock against which many leaned. Illiterate by circumstance, wisest by experience, she raised a tribe on her own. I also want to dedicate this to my family, without them there would be no me, really, gratitude.

Ingo: To my darling wife, Kathleen, and my sons Sebastian, Alex, and Leonard. You are important to me; I could not imagine a life without you.

Roland: All Glory to God the Father and My Lord Jesus Christ. As always, thanks to my wife, Blanca, for putting up with my schedule; I love you. I love my kids (Alyssa, Savvy, Joseph, and Amo); they rock.

Kyle: To my darling wife, Ann thank you for putting up with yet another book project, even when you didnt think it was possible for me to be any more stressed out than I was. Youre the greatest, dear.

Ndu: To my family, and especially to my brother Acho, whose memory lives on in our hearts.

Moe Abdula is one of the passionate and enthusiastic leaders of IBMs Cloud portfolio. As Vice President of the IBM Cloud Garage and Cloud Architecture and Solution Engineering, Moe leads a global practice of 13+ innovation Garages, powered by a team of Cloud solution, design thinking, enterprise delivery experts and distinguished engineers with focus on defining, implementing and enabling a key set of technology and industry patterns. During the last 20 years, Moe has held numerous development and field roles in IBM Software most recently in Software Lifecycle Management, Operations Management and Mobile Platforms. Moe attended the University of Leeds in the UK, where he received an honors bachelors degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering. Apart from contemplating clouds, Moe has passionate interests in football (soccer) and the unexpected experiences of life his two beautiful children drag him into!

Ingo Averdunk is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and leads the Cloud Service Management and Site Reliability Engineering practice in Cloud Adoption and Solution Engineering for IBM Cloud. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in enterprise systems and service management and consults with IBMs strategic customers globally. Ingo holds a masters degree in Computer Science and Theoretical Medicine at the Technical University of Munich (Germany) and is an ITIL Certified Service Manager. Ingo Averdunk is married to his wife Kathleen and a proud father of three sons. His main hobby is Karate, which he has practiced for more than 35 years.

Roland Barcia is an IBM Distinguished Engineer focused on IBM Cloud Private and CTO of Microservices, NYC Cloud Garage, and Solution Engineering in IBM Cloud Adoption and Solution Engineering. He is responsible for technical thought leadership and strategy, practice technical vitality, and technical enablement. He works with many enterprise clients on cloud strategy and implementations. He is the co-author of four books and has published more than 50 articles and papers on topics such as cloud technologies, Kubernetes, Microservices, Node, Containers, Java, Ajax, REST, and messaging technologies. He frequently presents at conferences and to customers on various technologies. Roland has spent the past 18 years implementing cloud, mobile, API, middleware systems on various platforms, including Sockets, CORBA, Java EE, SOA, REST, web, mobile, and microservices architecture. He has a masters degree in computer science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.