Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Overview

Cloud Computing definition and characteristics (elasticity, multi-tenant, on-demand, ubiquitous access, usage metering, self-service, sla-monitoring, etc.)
Cloud Computing and SOA
Enterprise Cloud drivers and adoption trends
Typical Cloud Enterprise workloads
Cloud service models/types (public, private, hybrid, and community clouds)
Cloud deployment models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, BPaas)
Cloud ROI models
Cloud reference architectures
Cloud standards (OSDIAPIs, etc.)
Technology providers vs. Cloud providers vs. Cloud vendors
Planning Cloud transformations (suitability assessment, future state definition, financial assessment and platform selection, roadmap definition)

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Evolution of infrastructure migration approaches (virtualization-VMWare/Xen/KVM virtualization, adaptive virtualization, Cloud Computing and on-demand resource provisioning)
Cloud Infrastructure services (storage, compute, services management, cloud brokers, etc.)
IaaS vendor solutions: Amazon EC2, HP, Microsoft, Savvis, Terremark, Right Scale, Rackspace cloud, IBM, Oracle, Verizon
IaaS mainstream offerings (assessment offerings, design offerings, build offerings, integrated operations and management offerings, governance offerings)
IaaS project: Ongoing programming project (Part I) – Configuration and programming on a combination of public/private provider platforms (e.g., Amazon EC2/Amazon AWS, IB
SmartCloud Enterprise, Windows Azure, Oracle Public Cloud, etc.) to support the overall course project application.

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Evolution of computing paradigms and related components (distributed computing, utility computing, Cloud computing, grid computing, etc.) e.g., Spring vs. VMWare vFabric, gemstone vs. VMWare Gemfire, WMWare Hyperic/TC Server/RabbitMQ
Cloud platform services (monitoring and management, application servers, messaging, data management, development and testing, integration, business intelligence, etc.)
PaaS vendor solutions: EMC Cloud Foundry, Google App Engine, HP, IBM, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Savvis, Verizon, force.com, VMware vFabric, OpenStack, Eucalyptus, Storage-as-a-Service platforms (Google Storage, ObjectStore S3, Amazon Dynamo, etc.)
PaaS mainstream offerings: build/extend/migrate/manage Enterprise applications on top of Microsoft Azure, plan/develop/manage Enterprise applications using AWS transformation services
PaaS project: Ongoing programming project (Part II – Builds on Part I) – Leverage various PaaS vendor platform capabilities to configure and extent pre-packaged software platforms for the course project application.

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Overview of the Cloud application development lifecycle
SaaS platform services (application development, application migration, SaaS implementation, business intelligence – Cloud-based/big data/real time analytics)
SaaS vendor horizontal solutions: ADP, Cisco, SalesForce.com, Microsoft Online Services, SAP, Oracle OnDemand, Tibco, Cordys, Google, Zoho, Taleo, NetSuite, SuccessFactors, Eloqua, Workday
SaaS vendor vertical solutions: SmartStream, Callidus Software, TriZetto, Fineos, Misys, Merced System, Inc.
SaaS mainstream offerings: SaaS Enablement (ISV & product-based), vendor-based SaaS offerings (SFDC, Cordys, Oracle), SaaS solution development, SaaS migration, Cloud application usage optimization
SaaS project: Ongoing programming project (Part III – Builds on Part II) – Leverage various SaaS frameworks to configure / create / extend SaaS components for the course project application).
Cloud Security

Cloud security challenges

Cloud security approaches: encryption, tokenization/obfuscation, cloud security alliance standards, cloud security models and related patterns
Cloud security in mainstream vendor solutions
Mainstream Cloud security offerings: security assessment, secure Cloud architecture design
Cloud security project: Ongoing programming project (Part V – Builds on Part IV) – Design a secure Cloud architecture to support the deployment of a secure version of the course project application.

Detailed architecture on Commercial Deployments and Opensources

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Openstack (HP/Rackspace)
MS Azure
Detailed architecture and project work in these areas.

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