Download or read book Cloud Service Management and Governance written by Enamul Haque and published by Enel Publications. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once an organisation adopts cloud computing, it quickly becomes apparent that the traditional approaches to IT Service Management processes will need to undergo drastic changes to integrate and run Bi-Modal IT Service Operations. This book is an alleyway to managing enterprise could services with a framework that consists of progressive Service Management practices to ensure practical, strategic, and modular methodology for the positive transformation of ITSM for cloud delivery models is followed. It illustrates how to optimise your current IT Service Management processes using modern service management frameworks, including ITIL 4, and IT4IT – from conceptual service blueprint to the most efficient service operations. It gives facile explanations of the cloud service management reference architecture, IT value streams and service models. It has very easy-to-understand process workflows with grand synthesis with enterprise service management and cloud operations management using Agile, DevOps, and Robotic Process Automation, with a value-based approach. Comprehensive features include - Cloud Service Management Framework. - Transformation and Transition Planning actions for ITSM processes. - Value stream workflows with detailed explanations for the incident, problem, change management and other processes. - Detail KPIs for performance monitoring and continuous improvements. - A full setup manual of smart cloud governance for a better decision-making process. - Complete guide on setting up your Cloud Centre Of Excellence with defined roles and responsibilities. - And many more have yet to see cloud capability-related facets to make your cloud service management successful and measurable.

Download or read book Cloud Service Management and Governance written by Enamul Haque and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once an organisation adopts cloud computing, it quickly becomes apparent that the traditional approaches to IT Service Management processes will need to undergo drastic changes to integrate and run Bi-Modal IT Service Operations. This book is an alleyway to managing enterprise could services with a framework that consists of progressive Service Management practices to ensure practical, strategic, and modular methodology for the positive transformation of ITSM for cloud delivery models is followed. It illustrates how to optimise your current IT Service Management processes using modern service management frameworks, including ITIL 4, and IT4IT - from conceptual service blueprint to the most efficient service operations. It gives facile explanations of the cloud service management reference architecture, IT value streams and service models. It has very easy-to-understand process workflows with grand synthesis with enterprise service management and cloud operations management using Agile, DevOps, and Robotic Process Automation, with a value-based approach. Comprehensive features include: - Cloud Service Management Framework. - Transformation and Transition Planning actions for ITSM processes. - Value stream workflows with detailed explanations for the incident, problem, change management and other processes. - Detail KPIs for performance monitoring and continuous improvements. - A full setup manual of smart cloud governance for a better decision-making process. - Complete guide on setting up your Cloud Centre Of Excellence with defined roles and responsibilities. - And many more never seen cloud capability-related facets to make your cloud service management successful and measurable.

Download or read book Cloud Governance written by Steven Mezzio and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloud computing is at the vanguard of the Metaverse-driven digital transformation. As a result, the cloud is ubiquitous; emerging as a mandate for organizations spanning size, sectors, and geographies. Cloud Governance: Basics and Practice brings to life the diverse range of opportunities and risks associated with governing the adoption and enterprise-wide use of the cloud. Corporate governance is uniquely disrupted by the cloud; exacerbating existing risks, and creating new and unexpected operational, cybersecurity, and regulatory risks. The cloud further extends the enterprise’s reliance on cloud service providers (CSPs), fueling an urgent need for agile and resilient business and IT strategies, governance, enterprise risk management (ERM), and new skills. This book discusses how the cloud is uniquely stressing corporate governance. Cloud Governance is a user-friendly practical reference guide with chapter-based self-assessment questions. The chapters in this book are interconnected and centered in a cloud governance ecosystem. This book will guide teachers, students and professionals as well as operational and risk managers, auditors, consultants and boards of directors. Events around the book Link to a De Gruyter online event where authors Steven Mezzio & Meredith Stein discuss the interplay of cloud computing and corporate governance functions with Jacqueline de Rojas, president of techUK and chair of the board of Digital Leaders. The event will be moderated by Richard Freeman, founder and CEO of always possible: https://youtu.be/orPwKKcPVsY

Download or read book Securing Cloud Services written by Lee Newcombe and published by IT Governance Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how security architecture processes may be used to derive security controls to manage the risks associated with the Cloud.

Download or read book Multi Cloud Architecture and Governance written by Jeroen Mulder and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to architecting, managing, implementing, and controlling multi-cloud environments Key Features Deliver robust multi-cloud environments and improve your business productivity Stay in control of the cost, governance, development, security, and continuous improvement of your multi-cloud solution Integrate different solutions, principles, and practices into one multi-cloud foundation Book DescriptionMulti-cloud has emerged as one of the top cloud computing trends, with businesses wanting to reduce their reliance on only one vendor. But when organizations shift to multiple cloud services without a clear strategy, they may face certain difficulties, in terms of how to stay in control, how to keep all the different components secure, and how to execute the cross-cloud development of applications. This book combines best practices from different cloud adoption frameworks to help you find solutions to these problems. With step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you’ll begin by planning the foundation, creating the architecture, designing the governance model, and implementing tools, processes, and technologies to manage multi-cloud environments. You’ll then discover how to design workload environments using different cloud propositions, understand how to optimize the use of these cloud technologies, and automate and monitor the environments. As you advance, you’ll delve into multi-cloud governance, defining clear demarcation models and management processes. Finally, you’ll learn about managing identities in multi-cloud: who’s doing what, why, when, and where. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create, implement, and manage multi-cloud architectures with confidenceWhat you will learn Get to grips with the core functions of multiple cloud platforms Deploy, automate, and secure different cloud solutions Design network strategy and get to grips with identity and access management for multi-cloud Design a landing zone spanning multiple cloud platforms Use automation, monitoring, and management tools for multi-cloud Understand multi-cloud management with the principles of BaseOps, FinOps, SecOps, and DevOps Define multi-cloud security policies and use cloud security tools Test, integrate, deploy, and release using multi-cloud CI/CD pipelines Who this book is for This book is for architects and lead engineers involved in architecting multi-cloud environments, with a focus on getting governance right to stay in control of developments in multi-cloud. Basic knowledge of different cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP, VMWare, and OpenStack) and understanding of IT governance is necessary.

Download or read book Cloud Computing written by Jared Carstensen and published by IT Governance Ltd. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will enable you to: understand the different types of Cloud and know which is the right one for your business have realistic expectations of what a Cloud service can give you, and enable you to manage it in the way that suits your business minimise potential disruption by successfully managing the risks and threats make appropriate changes to your business in order to seize opportunities offered by Cloud set up an effective governance system and benefit from the consequential cost savings and reductions in expenditure understand the legal implications of international data protection and privacy laws, and protect your business against falling foul of such laws know how Cloud can benefit your business continuity and disaster recovery planning.

Download or read book The IT4IT Reference Architecture Version 2 1 written by Van Haren Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Group IT4IT(TM) Reference Architecture, Version 2.1, an Open Group Standard, provides a vendor-neutral, technology-agnostic, and industry-agnostic reference architecture for managing the business of IT. The Open Group IT4IT Reference Architecture standard comprises a reference architecture and a value chain-based operating model. The IT Value Chain has four value streams supported by a reference architecture to drive efficiency and agility. The four value streams are: - Strategy to Portfolio - Request to Fulfill - Requirement to Deploy - Detect to Correct. Each IT Value Stream is centered on a key aspect of the service model, the essential data objects (information model), and functional components (functional model) that support it. Together, the four value streams play a vital role in helping IT control the service model as it advances through its lifecycle. The IT4IT Reference Architecture: - Provides prescriptive guidance on the specification of and interaction with a consistent service model backbone (common data model/context). - Supports real-world use-cases driven by the Digital Economy (e.g., Cloud-sourcing, Agile, DevOps, and service brokering)..- Embraces and complements existing process frameworks and methodologies (e.g., ITIL(R), CoBIT(R), SAFe, and TOGAF(R)) by taking a data-focused implementation model perspective, essentially specifying an information model across the entire value chain. The audience for this standard is: - IT Professionals who are responsible for delivering services in a way that is flexible, traceable, and cost-effective - IT Professionals / Practitioners who are focused on instrumenting the IT management landscape - IT Leaders who are concerned about their operating model - Enterprise Architects who are responsible for IT business transformation

Download or read book Controls Assurance in the Cloud Using COBIT 5 written by ISACA and published by ISACA. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This practical guidance was created for enterprises using or considering using cloud computing. It provides a governance and control framework based on COBIT 5 and an audit program using COBIT 5 for Assurance. This information can assist enterprises in assessing the potential value of cloud investments to determine whether the risk is within the acceptable level. In addition, it provides a list of publications and resources that can help determine if cloud computing is the appropriate solution for the data and processes being considered."--

Download or read book Silver Clouds Dark Linings written by Archie Reed and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Executive’s Strategic Guide to Driving Maximum Business Value from Cloud Services Cloud services represent a fundamental shift in how individuals, enterprises, and governments conduct business, interact, and use technology. If used effectively, they can increase business agility and focus, simplify capacity planning, and strengthen cost control. Unsurprisingly, however, the cloud also presents risks. In this concise, executive level book, leading experts Archie Reed and Stephen G. Bennett share the insights and guidance decision-makers need to drive maximum value from cloud services--and avoid the pitfalls. The authors explain what cloud computing is, how it works, who provides cloud services, and how companies are using them. Next, they walk through the entire cloud lifecycle, offering expert guidance on planning, governance, compliance, security, operations, administration, management, and more. You’ll learn how to: · Assess the opportunities, benefits, and risks of cloud services in your environment · Use the cloud to improve processes, accelerate system/product delivery, or create entirely new products and businesses · Approach the cloud strategically (and learn why you should) · Understand cloud infrastructure, operations, and standards from the decision-maker’s point of view · Build on existing solution architecture, design practices, and SOA investments · Ensure appropriate control, monitoring, compliance, and security · Use IT process standardization to simplify cloud services management · Define a flexible roadmap that enables multiple projects to move forward in parallel, and can change as the marketplace evolves Cover illustration by RapidEye /iStockphoto.com

Download or read book Start Ups and SMEs Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 1687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smaller companies are abundant in the business realm and outnumber large companies by a wide margin. To maintain a competitive edge against other businesses, companies must ensure the most effective strategies and procedures are in place. This is particularly critical in smaller business environments that have fewer resources. Start-Ups and SMEs: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that examines the strategies and concepts that will assist small and medium-sized enterprises to achieve competitiveness. It also explores the latest advances and developments for creating a system of shared values and beliefs in small business environments. Highlighting a range of topics such as entrepreneurship, innovative behavior, and organizational sustainability, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, business managers, executives, managing directors, academicians, business professionals, researchers, and graduate-level students.

Download or read book Data Governance The Definitive Guide written by Evren Eryurek and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As your company moves data to the cloud, you need to consider a comprehensive approach to data governance, along with well-defined and agreed-upon policies to ensure you meet compliance. Data governance incorporates the ways that people, processes, and technology work together to support business efficiency. With this practical guide, chief information, data, and security officers will learn how to effectively implement and scale data governance throughout their organizations. You'll explore how to create a strategy and tooling to support the democratization of data and governance principles. Through good data governance, you can inspire customer trust, enable your organization to extract more value from data, and generate more-competitive offerings and improvements in customer experience. This book shows you how. Enable auditable legal and regulatory compliance with defined and agreed-upon data policies Employ better risk management Establish control and maintain visibility into your company's data assets, providing a competitive advantage Drive top-line revenue and cost savings when developing new products and services Implement your organization's people, processes, and tools to operationalize data trustworthiness.

Download or read book Above the Clouds written by Kevin T. McDonald and published by IT Governance Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book acts as a primer and strategic guide to identify Cloud Computing best practices and associated risks, and reduce the latter to acceptable levels. From software as a service (SaaP) to replacing the entire IT infrastructure, the author serves as an educator, guide and strategist, from runway to getting the organization above the clouds.

Download or read book Implementing Effective IT Governance and IT Management written by Gad J. Selig and published by Van Haren. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a revised edition of the best selling title Implementing IT Governance (ISBN 978 90 8753 119 5).For trainers free additional material of this book is available. This can be found under the "Training Material" tab. Log in with your trainer account to access the material.In all enterprises around the world, the issues, opportunities and challenges of aligning IT more closely with the organization and effectively governing an organization s IT investments, resources, major initiatives and superior uninterrupted service is becoming a major concern of the Board and executive management. An integrated and comprehensive approach to the alignment, planning, execution and governance of IT and its resources has become critical to more effectively align, integrate, invest, measure, deploy, service and sustain the strategic and tactical direction and value proposition of IT in support of organizations.Much has been written and documented about the individual components of IT Governance such as strategic planning, demand management, program and project management, IT service management, strategic sourcing and outsourcing, performance management, metrics, compliance and others. Much less has been written about a comprehensive and integrated approach for IT/Business Alignment, Planning, Execution and Governance. This title fills that need in the marketplace and offers readers structured and practical solutions using the best of the best practices available today. The book is divided into two parts, which cover the three critical pillars necessary to develop, execute and sustain a robust and effective IT governance environment:- Leadership, people, organization and strategy,- IT governance, its major component processes and enabling technologies.Each of the chapters also covers one or more of the following action oriented topics: - the why and what of IT: strategic planning, portfolio investment management, decision authority, etc.; - the how of IT: Program/Project Management, IT Service Management (including ITIL); Strategic Sourcing and outsourcing; performance, risk and contingency management (including COBIT, the Balanced Scorecard etc.) and leadership, team management and professional competences.

Download or read book SOA Governance written by Thomas Erl and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Definitive Guide to Governing Shared Services and SOA Projects SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud is the result of a multi-year project to collect proven industry practices for establishing IT governance controls specific to the adoption of SOA and service-orientation. Authored by world-renowned experts in the fields of SOA, IT governance, and cloud computing, this comprehensive book provides clear direction as to what does and does not constitute SOA governance and then steps the reader through the most important industry governance practices, as they pertain to individual SOA project lifecycle stages. With a consistent, vendor-neutral focus, and with the help of case study examples, the authors demonstrate how to define and position precepts, organizational roles, processes, standards, and metrics. Readers benefit from thorough and visually depicted cross-references and mapping between roles, processes, precepts, and project stages, enabling them to fully explore dynamics and dependencies and thereby learn how to use these governance controls to create their own custom SOA governance systems. This important title will be valuable to every practitioner concerned with making SOA work, including senior IT managers, project managers, architects, analysts, developers, administrators, QA professionals, security specialists, and cloud computing professionals. Topic Areas Defining SOA governance Establishing an SOA governance office and program Working with proven SOA governance precepts and processes Identifying organizational roles and relating them to SOA governance Associating design-time and runtime SOA project stages with SOA governance controls Governance considerations specific to shared services Roles, precepts, and factors specific to cloud-based services Understanding and categorizing SOA governance products and technologies Applying governance controls as early as the planning stages and measuring their success in subsequent stages Using vitality triggers to govern shared services on an on-going basis SOA governance controls that pertain to business information documents and policies

Download or read book IT Governance to Drive High Performance written by Robert E. Kress and published by IT Governance Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will show you the state-of-the-art IT governance model that was developed by the largest consulting firm in the world! This pocket guide provides you with an insider's detailed description of Accenture's IT governance policy and details its governance structure. It will show how effective IT governance links IT strategy and IT decisions to Accenture's business strategy and business priorities. Following the best practices approach set out in this pocket guide will serve as an excellent starting point for any organisation with ambitions to achieve high performance. Benefits to business include: Boost productivity How hard do you work in other areas of your business to cut costs and improve efficiency? In testing economic times, is the absence of a clear strategy for your business's IT governance still a realistic option? Learning from Accenture's proven approach will enable you to increase your organisation's competitiveness over the longer term. Coordinate your operations To ensure effective decision-making and align your IT function with your broader business goals, you need to make the structure of your IT governance fit your overall corporate governance structure. That way, you can make your IT work for your business. Manage change effectively IT is crucial for realising the changes you want your business to make. For this reason, you cannot afford to have these changes treated merely as IT projects that have been foisted on the company by the IT department. By bringing top management on board, and giving business leaders a formal role in the IT governance of your organisation, you will make the success of any project with an IT component much more likely. Keep a grip on budgets The costs of IT projects are notoriously prone to overrun, while some IT development programmes have promised more than they ever delivered. The Accenture way of doing business is different. Following the Accenture approach means ensuring that your IT investment is backed by a solid business case, and measuring the return on investment following project completion. High performance Chief executives now put high performance IT among their top strategic objectives. So, if you are looking to improve IT governance in your own organisation, finding out what Robert E. Kress has to say is as good a starting point as any. This book will show you his company's best practice approach to the subject. Whatever business you are in, there is nearly always a clear link b...

Download or read book Ahead in the Cloud written by Stephen Orban and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book IT Service Management Based on ITIL 2011 Edition written by Pierre Bernard and published by Van Haren. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For trainers free additional material of this book is available. This can be found under the "Training Material" tab. Log in with your trainer account to access the material.In the world of international IT Service Management the previous editions of this book have acquired an excellent reputation as guidance on the topic of ITIL. Over the years this authoritative guide has earned its place on the bookshelves and in the briefcases of industry experts as they implement best practices within their organizations.This revised edition is based on ITIL 2011 Edition. It is written in the same concise way as the previous editions and covering all the facts. Readers will find that this title succinctly covers the key aspects of ITIL 2011 Edition. It is endorsed by AXELOS, the official ITIL Accreditor.The ITIL Lifecycle is fully covered. In addition there is much attention to the 26 IT Service Management processes and 4 Functions. These are described in detail. This means that it is easy for all readers to access and grasp the concepts of processes and functions that are so pivotal to many service management day-to-day operations.This title covers the following: Introduction to the Service Lifecycle Lifecycle phase: Service Strategy Lifecycle phase: Service Design Lifecycle phase: Service Transition Lifecycle phase: Service Operation Lifecycle phase: Continual Service ImprovementNew, compared with the previous edition on ITIL V3, are the processes for Strategy Management and Business Relationship Management. Also the other new and revised concepts of ITIL are covered in this book. Well written and presented, this publication provides a useful addition to the core ITIL publications for anyone wanting to understand IT service management. Kevin Holland, Service Management Specialist, NHS Pierre has produced an extremely useful summary of the current version of ITIL. This will be an invaluable day to day reference for all practitioners. Claire Agutter, ITIL Training Zone