C1:M2: Digital Transformation with Google Cloud

Challenges of embracing the Cloud

-changing the way you work -customer expectations have changed -cloud create equal opportunities for success for everyone

Now, organizations need to be (4):

-innovative -agile -fast -customer-focused

Why Multi or Hybrid Cloud?

1. Access to latest technologies 2. Modernize at the right place 3. Improved return on investment 4. Flexibility through choice of tools 5. Improved reliability and resiliency 6. Maintain regulatory compliance 7. Running apps on-premises 8. Running apps at remote edge locations

What are the two core focus areas for modernization?

1. Infrastructure 2. Applications

Examples of Google Cloud Solution Areas:

1. infrastructure modernization 2. business applications platform portfolio 3. application management 4. data management solutions 5. smarts analytics 6. artificial intelligence 7. security

Infrastructure modernization:

A common term used to describe the process of replacing legacy hardware and systems and consolidating them in the cloud.

How does a reliable networking architecture support a digital transformation strategy?

A fast, reliable, and low-latency global network ensures exceptional user experience and high performance. It also makes it easier to communicate and manage data globally. With ever more distributed workforces and online businesses, having virtual network services that can easily scale [the building rises up]

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Analysis that weights cost of cloud adoption against cost of running current on-prem costs

API

Application programming interfaces, commonly known as APIs, are technical tools that enable integration between applications.

Which network performance metric describes the amount of data a network can transfer in a given amount of time?

Bandwidth

Network bandwidth

Bandwidth is a measure of measure of how much data a network can transfer in a given amount of time.

An organization wants to ensure they have redundancy of their resources so their application remains available in the event of a disaster. How can they ensure this happens?

By putting resources in different zones.

Cloud cost change from ___ to ____

Capex to Opex

Mutli Cloud

Describes architectures that combine at least two public cloud providers, such as Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or others. An organization might choose multicloud if they want to take advantage of the key strengths of different public cloud providers.

A financial services organization has bank branches in a number of countries, and has built an application that needs to run in different configurations based on the local regulations of each country. How can cloud infrastructure help achieve this goal?

Flexibility of infrastructure configuration.

An organization wants to innovate using the latest technologies, but also has compliance needs that specify data must be stored in specific locations. Which cloud approach would best suit their needs?

Hybrid Cloud

What are 2 ways to generate insights from data?

ML and AI

Network latency

Network latency is the amount of time it takes for data to travel from one point to another

On-Prem

On-premises servers are also often referred to as private clouds, but generally the distinction can be made that on-premises software runs in a local environment, whereas a private cloud is accessed through the internet.

Hybrid Cloud

One in which applications are running in a combination of different environments. The most common example is combining a private and public cloud environment, like an on-premises data center, and a public cloud computing environment like Google Cloud. Most common infrastructure services today

When to use Private Cloud

Private cloud computing gives an organization many of the benefits of a public cloud — including self-service, scalability, and elasticity — with more customization available than from dedicated on-premises infrastructure. This approach is often used when an organization has already made significant infrastructure investments, or if, for regulatory reasons, data must be kept on-premises.

With right platform, organizations can generate instant insights from data at any scale.

So instead of analyzing data for retrospective insight, you can leverage data in real time to continually improve your service.

Application modernization:

The migration of existing or legacy on-premises applications to new applications or platforms in the cloud, including the integration of new functionality and architectures.

Application:

The term 'application' is widely used to refer to programs and software that enable people to perform various digital tasks.

An organization has shifted from a CapEx to OpEx based spending model. Which of these statements is true?

They will only pay for what they use.

One large aspect of digital transportation is security and requires new ways of thinking

Traditional security: keeping threats out Security in cloud: requires new way of thinking - not just people outside. virtual access.

What is modernization?

Updating IT backbone

Private Cloud

When an organization has virtualized servers in its own data centers, or those of a private cloud provider, to create its own private dedicated environment.

A network's edge:

a place where a device or an organization's network connects to the Internet. Entry point to network.

Two common ingredients to digital transformation

compute power and data

Google's network:

designed for highest possible bandwidth and lowest latency

backbone of internet

fiber optic cables

Data is no longer retrospective insight, but ____, _____, and ____.

real-time insight, smart predictions, and intelligent action

ML:

subset of AI - use data to make predictions