Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing, often referred to as simply “The cloud,” is the delivery of On-Demand Computing Resources — everything from applications to Data Centers — over the Internet on a pay-for-use basis.

Elastic Resources — Scale up or down quickly and easily to meet demand Metered service so you only pay for what you use Self Service — All the IT resources you need with Self-Service Access.

Course Content:

• Introduction to the cloud
• What is a cloud?
• Where did the cloud come from? History, evolution, etc.
• What a cloud is not: Grid, parallel computing, VM, etc.
• Characteristics of cloud computing
• What makes a cloud?
• Storage Virtualization
• Application virtualization
• Server virtualization
• Network virtualization
• Hands-on demonstration of cloud computing
• Creating an account on the cloud
• Starting a server instance
• Allocating storage and other resources
• Deploying an application
• Cloud Computing Service Models
• Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS)
• Platform as a Service (PAAS)
• Software as a Service (SAAS)
• Cloud Computing deployment models
• Public Cloud
• Private Cloud
• Community Cloud
• Hybrid Cloud
• Advantages of cloud computing
• Cost model change (Capex to Opex only)
• Reduction in cost of ownership (TCO)
• On-demand scalability
• Reliability
• Shorter Time to Market
• Ease of Use
• Reduction in operation overheads
• Challenges of cloud computing
• Security
• Data privacy
• Performance
• Availability
• Cloud providers and their offerings
• Amazon
• Microsoft
• Google
• Salesforce.com
• Amazon Web Services
• Services offered by Amazon
• Hands-on Amazon
• EC2 – Configuring a server, Launching an instance
• S3- Allocating storage buckets,
• Creating groups, objects and bucket policies
• Microsoft Windows Azure
• Microsoft Windows Azure architecture
• Services offered by Microsoft Azure
• Hands-on on Azure
• Creating and deploying an application on Azure
• Migrating an existing application to Azure
• Migrating the application’s data to SQL Azure
• Introduction to Force.com from Sales force
• Infrastructure as a service
• Database as a service
• Integration as a service
• Logic as a service
• UI as a service
• Development as a service
• Administering the Cloud
• Server Provisioning
• Capacity planning
• How to provision servers in cloud
• What type of server do I need?
• Best practices
• Providing Security
• VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
• How to ensure security within cloud
• Firewall and security groups
• Backup/Recovery of data
• Backups
• Backup strategy
• Where to save backup
• Restore operations
• High Availability – HA
• How to ensure availability
• Provisioning across zones (Physical data-centers for availability)
• Elastic IPs for high availability
• Server monitoring and Performance monitoring
• Monitoring needed in the cloud
• Monitoring tools availability
• Performance monitoring
• Tweaks to improve performance and availability