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Ahilan Ponnusamy
Ahilan Ponnusamy
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Ahilan Ponnusamy

Ahilan Ponnusamy is a GTM specialist for Application Platform at Red Hat based in Singapore. He enjoys working with customers to deliver real value on hybrid cloud architectures and cloud-native application development and delivery practices. Ahilan completed his Master of Computer Applications from MKU, India in 1999. His work history includes the likes of Philips CE in Eindhoven Netherlands, BEA technologies as a member of Customer Centric Engineering and support in India and USA, Pre-sales Tech-lead for cloud platform team at Oracle USA, Principal platform engineer at VMware, Global Architect at Dell Technologies Singapore. Originally from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, Ahilan currently resides in Singapore with his wife and two boys.
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Andreas Spanner
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Andreas Spanner

Andreas Spanner is currently working as Chief Architect within the CTO Organization at Red Hat. Prior to his role as the Chief Architect for Australia & New Zealand, Andreas worked across the globe in many different industries ranging from automotive, manufacturing, and supply chain logistics to telco, FSI and public sector on areas such as ERP, CRM, HR, and payroll data and processes migrations, Internet security appliances, and B2B marketplaces. He has delivered Just-In-Time-logistics and series production systems for customers such as BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes. Andreas completed his engineering degree in Germany and got his first Commodore 64 when he was 12 years old. Originally from Bavaria, Andreas now lives in Sydney, Australia.
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Implementing Distributed Cloud and Edge Platforms with Enterprise Open Source Technologies

In the previous chapter, we learned how Bison Insurance built its distributed cloud and edge operating model following the processes and template defined in Chapter 5, Building Your Distributed Technology Operating Model. We followed six main steps to determine our operating model dimensions for each operating model stream and, subsequently, our complete technology operating model. As in Chapter 5, we defined streams and grouped dimensions under each stream that the streams own, and subsequently built out an operating model for the resurgence program. In this chapter, we will show how Bison Insurance built its distributed cloud and edge platform called the Resurgence platform, leveraging enterprise open source technologies. At the end of this chapter, we will have achieved the following:

  • Demonstrated how enterprise-grade open source technologies have become the core innovation engine...

Building a Distributed Cloud and Edge Platform

Once the operating model was defined, the core team worked on building the components and processes to implement the operating model. For the purpose of this book, let us take the Platform and Tenant Experience stream and explain how Bison Insurance built its distributed cloud and edge platform covering all dimensions, items, and their dependencies that are captured in the Bison operating model. The following screenshot shows the Platform and Tenant Experience stream dashboard:

Figure 7.1 – Platform and Tenant Experience stream dashboard

Figure 7.1 – Platform and Tenant Experience stream dashboard

One of the key dimensions of this stream is the platform dimension. Most other dimensions that are listed under this stream are built upon the platform. The following screenshot shows the PTE.Platform dimension dashboard, where all items under the platform dimension are captured:

Figure 7.2 – PTE.Platform dashboard with all items defined (partial view)

Figure 7.2 – PTE.Platform dashboard with all items defined...

Summary

In this chapter, we showed how enterprise open source technologies can be leveraged to build Bison Insurance’s distributed cloud and edge platform based on the operating model previously defined in Chapter 6, Your Distributed Technology Operating Model in Action.

In the next chapter, we will summarize our learning in this book and share some parting thoughts on how you can leverage this book and the templates to create your distributed cloud and edge operating model. Next, please find some additional resources for your reference.

Further reading

Refer to the following links for more information about the topics that were covered in this chapter:

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Ahilan Ponnusamy

Ahilan Ponnusamy is a GTM specialist for Application Platform at Red Hat based in Singapore. He enjoys working with customers to deliver real value on hybrid cloud architectures and cloud-native application development and delivery practices. Ahilan completed his Master of Computer Applications from MKU, India in 1999. His work history includes the likes of Philips CE in Eindhoven Netherlands, BEA technologies as a member of Customer Centric Engineering and support in India and USA, Pre-sales Tech-lead for cloud platform team at Oracle USA, Principal platform engineer at VMware, Global Architect at Dell Technologies Singapore. Originally from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, Ahilan currently resides in Singapore with his wife and two boys.
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Andreas Spanner

Andreas Spanner is currently working as Chief Architect within the CTO Organization at Red Hat. Prior to his role as the Chief Architect for Australia & New Zealand, Andreas worked across the globe in many different industries ranging from automotive, manufacturing, and supply chain logistics to telco, FSI and public sector on areas such as ERP, CRM, HR, and payroll data and processes migrations, Internet security appliances, and B2B marketplaces. He has delivered Just-In-Time-logistics and series production systems for customers such as BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes. Andreas completed his engineering degree in Germany and got his first Commodore 64 when he was 12 years old. Originally from Bavaria, Andreas now lives in Sydney, Australia.
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