{"id":2562,"date":"2018-07-23T20:27:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T20:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devbloglavaprotocols.nityo.in\/how-a-cloud-operating-model-meets-an-enterprise-cios-needs\/"},"modified":"2018-07-23T20:27:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T20:27:32","slug":"how-a-cloud-operating-model-meets-an-enterprise-cios-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavaprotocols.com\/the-cloud-blog\/how-a-cloud-operating-model-meets-an-enterprise-cios-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Cloud Operating Model meets an Enterprise CIO\u2019s Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By\u00a0Gregor Hohpe, Technical Director, Office of the CTO, Google<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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I recently joined the\u00a0Google Cloud Office of the CTO (a.k.a. \u201cOCTO\u201d)<\/a>\u00a0as technical director, after 5 years as chief architect at one of the world\u2019s largest insurance companies. People often ask me about the differences between these environments, to which I jokingly reply: \u201cAsk me what\u2019s the same; that\u2019s a shorter answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to working in the insurance industry, I\u2019d been a staff software engineer at Google for 7 years. At the time, I felt that all the great technology that Google and other tech giants were building could be very valuable for enterprises \u2014 even if it required them to rethink their existing assumptions and architectures. Jokes aside, having spent extensive time inside both a large enterprise IT and a digital giant, I find that there are more connections and similarities between the two than one might think.<\/p>\n

For example, when enterprises migrate their on-premise workloads to the cloud, they start by mapping their existing needs and operational models to those of the cloud providers. During this process, the OCTO team fields lots of questions related to the cloud operating model, and how it differs from their environments \u2014at least at first sight.<\/p>\n

Some customers may even start to wonder whether the cloud is really a fit for their \u201ctraditional\u201d enterprise, and not just for cloud-native start-ups. Part of our job is to work with IT leaders to connect the dots, and show them why the cloud operating model is exactly what they need for their enterprises.<\/p>\n

CIO Agenda<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Today\u2019s CIOs face an exciting, but also quite challenging time. Digital disruption and rapid technology evolution dramatically change expectations for enterprise IT, causing IT organisations to juggle rapid technology evolution and increasing demands from the business to deliver faster and at a lower cost.<\/p>\n

Speaking to numerous CIOs, we\u2019ve found that their top agenda items tend to fall into three major buckets:<\/p>\n