East: Hi, I'm Marcus East, Technical Director in the Office of the CTO. Let's begin with how you can modernize your IT infrastructure with Google Cloud products. Innovation doesn't happen in a linear way; it comes in waves, and each of these waves is powered by a breakthrough technology. Cloud technology is a similar breakthrough technology that is generating thousands of other new innovations and disrupting industries around the world. New businesses born in the cloud are challenging old business models. Scale is no longer a competitive advantage, it's the norm. Many organizations are very aware of the threat coming from digital disruption. What organizations want to know is how best to respond to this threat. How can they survive and thrive in this new era of cloud? Central to an organization's ability to thrive in the new era, is the way in which they structure and use their IT resources. This could mean moving away from investing resources to run and maintain existing IT infrastructure, to focusing more on creating new higher value products and services. With cloud, organizations can develop and build new applications to drive better engagement with customers and employees faster, securely, and at scale. And ultimately, leveraging cloud technology to truly transform a business requires new collaborative models, changing culture and processes, and enabling team productivity and innovation. Enterprises are also seeing significant financial benefits from adopting cloud, as their approach to IT moves from buying fixed capacity to paying only for what they use, changing the economics of technology investment. First, we'll focus on how to modernize your IT infrastructure as the foundation of your digital transformation. Even if you're not in an IT or technical role, understanding this foundation will help you identify how you can support and help drive your organization's cloud adoption goals. And with that, here's what we'll cover in this module. Google Cloud's global infrastructure, hybrid and multi-cloud architectures and what we mean by each of them, Google Cloud's built-in security capabilities and measures, Google Cloud Platform's compute products and services and their business value. Let's get started.