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Course summary

1. Course summary

This concludes the “Digital Transformation with Google Cloud” course, where you learned about the foundations of cloud technology and saw how this technology is changing business in a digital era. In the first section of the course, Why Cloud Technology is Transforming Business, you learned key terms related to the cloud and digital transformation; the benefits of cloud technology for an organization’s digital transformation; the differences between on-premises infrastructure, public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and multicloud; and the drivers and challenges that lead organizations to undergo digital transformation. In the second section, Fundamental Cloud Concepts, you learned about the benefits of moving to cloud infrastructure through customer business use cases; the difference between a solution and a product in Google Cloud; how moving to the cloud shifts an organization's spending from capital expenditure to operational expenditure and how that affects total cost of ownership; when private, hybrid, or multicloud infrastructures best apply to different business use cases; basic network infrastructure terminology; and how Google Cloud supports digital transformation with global infrastructure and data centers connected by a fast, reliable network. In the third section, Cloud Computing Models and Shared Responsibility, you learned the definitions, benefits, and tradeoffs of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS; which computing model applies to various business scenarios and use cases; what the cloud shared responsibility model is; and which responsibilities belong to the cloud provider and which belong to the customer for on-premises and cloud computing models. Now that you’ve had a comprehensive introduction to digital transformation, you can move on to the next course in the series, Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud, where you’ll learn about the value of data, the cloud data transformation journey, Google Cloud data management solutions, and Google Cloud smart analytics and business intelligence solutions.

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