Cloud Computing Foundation

Cloud computing offers a new way to gain on-demand, elastic capabilities, avoiding the need for significant capital investment whilst promoting a culture of innovation through a ‘fail-fast’ paradigm.

Clients benefit from a pay-as-you-go model, coupled with intuitive self-service capabilities providing unprecedented speed-to-market and clear cost transparencies with market leaders such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google.

Despite the prevalence and visibility around cloud computing, there is a still a perception of misinformation around cloud computing standards and terminology. This 2-day course has been designed to ensure that participants get a solid and accurate understanding of the fundamentals of cloud computing.

Outcomes

After attending this course participants will be well prepared to:

• Recall terms and key facts about the concepts, characteristics, delivery models and benefits of cloud computing

• Understand the concepts, characteristics, delivery models and benefits of cloud computing

• Recall terms and concepts about the security and compliance cloud computing challenges

• Understanding the key security and compliance cloud computing challenges

• Recall terms and concepts about the technical and organization cloud computing challenges

• Understanding the key technical and organization cloud challenges

• Understanding the characteristics, use cases, and choices available of Public Cloud Computing

• Understanding the characteristics, use cases, and choices available of Private Cloud Computing

• Recall terms and concepts about Hybrid Cloud Computing

• Understanding the characteristics, use cases, and choices available of Hybrid Cloud Computing

• Understanding the approach to creating an action plan for a cloud pilot project.

Who Should Attend

The course is designed for:

• Individuals and organisations seeking a foundational understanding of cloud computing

• Non-technical employees that wish to learn more about the basics of cloud computing, from backgrounds such as finance, legal, marketing, procurement and sales

• Employees involved in cloud computing initiatives or projects, such as project managers, business analysts, architects, engineers and developers

• Managers responsible for employees working on cloud computing initiatives or projects

Contents

Introduction to Cloud Computing

• Overview of Cloud

• Benefits of Cloud

• Five Cloud Characteristics (NIST)

• Three Cloud Service Models (NIST)

• Four Cloud Deployment Models (NIST)

Cloud Security & Compliance Challenges

• Understanding of security, compliance and risk

• Roles and responsibilities between cloud consumers and cloud providers

• Assessing and understanding cloud provider security

• Overview and usage of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) resources, such as the cloud controls matrix (CCM) and the consensus assessment initiative (CAI)

• Understanding of data responsibility and jurisdiction

• The role and structure of service level agreements (SLAs)

Cloud Technical and Organisational Challenges

• Overview of cloud application design considerations

• Understand the implications of big data

• Understand the cloud application lifecycle

• Describe the key principles of cloud automation and testing

• Harnessing the power of shadow IT

Public Cloud Computing

• Overview of public cloud, pros, cons and use cases

• Broad understanding of Microsoft, Amazon and Google cloud services scope

Private Cloud Computing

• Overview of private cloud, pros, cons and use cases

• Broad understanding of cloud technology options

Hybrid Cloud Computing

• Overview of hybrid cloud, pros, cons and use cases

• Broad understanding of cloud technology options

Creating a Cloud Action Plan

• Understanding the scope and purpose of a cloud action plan

• Selecting a cloud partner and implementing a successful pilot

• Broad understanding of stakeholder management to maximise cloud deployment success.