🔒 ☁ Unlocking the True Potential of the Cloud ☁🔒
Embracing a cloud operating model is not just a trend, it’s a strategic imperative for companies looking to drive value to their customers. To truly thrive, organizations must enable their approach across three key dimensions: people, process and tools. Enter the era of centralized platform teams:
Key Focus Areas for Platform Teams:
🔑 Reliability: Establish trust through reliable and scalable services, measured by Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and advanced (Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices like Service Level Objectives(SLOs.)
🔑Automation: Increase consistency and productivity by automating workflows, reducing toil, and accelerating time-to-market.
🔑Education and Adoption: Facilitate platform adoption with self-service portals, documentation, and a thoughtful developer experience.
🔑Security and Compliance: Address security concerns through automation, encryption, and standardized architectures to empower teams.
🔑Community Advocacy: Champion platform use through internal advocacy, documentation, and engagement activities like townhalls and hackathons.
🔑Developer Experience: Create a seamless deployment experience with sensible defaults, prescriptive guidance, and administrative relief.
🔑Pragmatic Standardization: Maintain a balanced service catalog to meet both innovation and sustainability needs.
🔑Cost Optimization: Implement chargebacks and showbacks to provide cost transparency and optimize resource usage.
🔑Alignment with Business Outcomes: Measure platform success against outcome-oriented metrics such as release frequency, stability, security, and cost optimization.
Transformational Benefits:
🏆 Increased productivity
🏆 More frequent releases
🏆 Enhanced stability
🏆 Reduced risk
🏆 Optimized cost
Delve into the advantages and considerations of implementing a cloud operating model featuring solutions from HashiCorp and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks.
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