There's much excitement about cloud technology and digital transformation, but often many unanswered questions. For example: What is cloud technology? What does digital transformation mean? How can cloud technology help your organization? Where do you even begin? If you've asked yourself any of these questions, you're in the right place. This course provides an overview of the types of opportunities and challenges that companies often encounter in their digital transformation journey. If you want to learn about cloud technology so you can excel in your role and help build the future of your business, then this introductory course on digital transformation is for you. This course is part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path.
Overview
Syllabus
- Course Introduction
- Executive Introduction
- Course Introduction
- Why Cloud Technology is Transforming Business
- Introduction
- Innovations, paradigm shifts, and digital transformation
- What is the cloud?
- The benefits of cloud computing
- Real-world examples: Why it’s critical to transform and embrace new technology
- Cloud eras
- Challenges that lead to a digital transformation
- Google’s Transformation Cloud
- The Google Cloud Adoption Framework
- Summary
- Quiz
- Fundamental Cloud Concepts
- Introduction
- Total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Capital expenditures (CapEx) versus operating expenses (OpEx)
- Private cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud strategies
- How a network supports digital transformation
- Network performance: Bandwidth and latency
- Google Cloud regions and zones
- Google’s edge network
- Summary
- Quiz
- Cloud Computing Models and Shared Responsibility
- Introduction to cloud computing models and shared responsibility
- Cloud computing service models
- IaaS (Infrastructure as a service)
- PaaS (Platform as a service)
- SaaS (Software as a service)
- Choosing a cloud computing model
- The shared responsibility model
- How the shared responsibility model works
- Summary
- Quiz
- Course Summary
- Course summary
- Your Next Steps
- Course Badge
