Cloud Computing For Beginners

Preface

Foundation of Cloud Computing

• Introduction to cloud computing
• History of cloud computing
• Fundamentals of the cloud computing ecosystem
• Cloud computing characteristics
• Advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing
• Comparison of traditional and cloud computing paradigms
• Evaluating the cloud's business impact and economics
• Business drivers of cloud computing adoption
• Future of the cloud (FoC)
• Summary

Cloud Services and Deployment Models

• Cloud deployment models
• Cloud Service Models
• Cloud infrastructure mechanisms
• Cloud service management
• Summary

Cloud Computing Architecture

• Cloud computing architecture design principles
• Cloud computing life cycle (CCLC)
• Cloud computing reference architecture
• Load balancing approach
• Mobile cloud computing (MCC)
• Case study - Oracle cloud management
• Summary

Virtualization Technology

• Understanding virtualization
• Adopting virtualization
• Techniques of virtualization
• How virtualization works?
• XEN
• Kernel-based virtual machine (KVM)
• VMware
• VirtualBox
• Citrix
• Types of Virtualization
• Virtualization in Cloud
• Summary

Service oriented Architecture

• SOA foundation
• Web Services and SOA
• SOA communication
• SOA components
• SOA Infrastructure
• Need of SOA
• Business Process Management (BPM)
• Business Process Management Platform as a Service - BPM PaaS
• Business Process as a Service-BPaaS
• Summary

Cloud Security and Privacy

• Cloud security
• Cloud CIA security model
• Cloud computing security architecture
• Service provider security issues
• Security issues in virtualization
• Cloud legal issues
• Performance monitoring and management of cloud services
• Legal issues in cloud computing
• Data security in cloud
• The cloud risk management framework
• Risk management process for cloud consumers
• Requirement for risk management in ISO/IEC 27001
• Data privacy risks in the cloud
• Business continuity and disaster recovery
• Threats in cloud
• Security techniques for threats protection
• Cloud service level agreements (SLA) practices
• Components of a cloud SLA
• Types of SLAs
• Cloud vendors
• Issues of Quality of Cloud Services
• Techniques for providing QoS to the cloud applications
• Migration of a local server into cloud
• Migration steps
• Trust management
• Summary

Cloud Computing Applications

• Introducing cloud computing applications
• Google App Engine
• Google Apps
• Google Cloud Datastore
• Dropbox Cloud
• Apple iCloud
• Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Summary

Cloud Computing Technologies, Platforms and Services

• High-performance computing with cloud technologies
• Message Passing Interface (MPI)
• MapReduce programming model
• Dryad and DryadLINQ
• Eucalyptus cloud platform
• Components of Eucalyptus
• OpenNebula cloud platform
• Layers of OpenNebula
• Features of OpenNebula
• OpenStack cloud platform
• OpenStack components
• Benefits of Open Stack
• Nimbus Cloud Computing Platform
• Features of Nimbus
• The Apache Hadoop ecosystem
• Summary

Adoption of Cloud Computing

• Adoption of cloud computing in the current era Cloud computing in the IT industry
• Factors affecting cloud computing adoption
• Cloud computing existing areas of application
• Case studies
• Cloud computing certifications
• Summary