The Information Technology (I.T.) industry is undergoing a major transition, no different than when the industry shifted from one of monolithic mainframe systems to personal computers, or from local area networks to the age of the Internet. As with any transformation, the change will drastically impact what I.T. departments have gotten comfortable doing for the past couple decades. This latest state of change is being driven by a more tech savvy workforce in an environment where the consumer of information and technology services has choices that extend beyond the enterprise datacenter into...

As organizations advance the modernization of their applications and datacenters to adapt to the new world of cloud computing, the transition process for employees of the organization and I.T. departments also go through an evolution. This change involves rethinking whether decades old methods of using and running applications still makes sense, and how organizations manage and support users as applications and Apps get updated on a rolling basis. This book covers real world best practices how organizations complete their application and datacenter modernization process, redesign and...