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Course Outline
1. Introduction to Cloud Computing
- Evolution of the field -
- Transitioning from application hosting to SaaS, and public/private clouds
- Defining the Cloud
- Selecting your model: IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS
- Typical cloud usage scenarios
- Comparing SaaS with traditional enterprise computing
- The programmable Web: leveraging APIs in the cloud
2. Cloud Migration
- Enhancing resource utilization through virtualization
- Managing cloud elasticity via automated, on-demand resource provisioning
- Leveraging shared infrastructure and applications to achieve economies of scale
- Understanding cloud benefits and challenges
3. IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
- Core architecture and key features of IaaS
- Key IaaS providers
- Microsoft Azure
- Web Roles & Worker Roles
- Scalability, load balancing, and failover mechanisms
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) & Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
- IaaS+: AWS Application Services and Marketplace
- Regions & Availability Zones
- Networking & security protocols
- Monitoring, Auto Scaling, & Load Balancing
- Designing scalable and fault-tolerant applications
- Strategies for preventing outages
- Management interfaces
- Microsoft Azure
- Private & hybrid cloud
- Drivers & challenges
- Defining specific requirements
- Methodology for building a private cloud
- Managing the private cloud
- Vendor assistance overview
- VMware
- Abiquo
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
- Hybrid clouds
- Use cases
- Product example: Eucalyptus
- Selecting the appropriate private cloud model
4. PaaS (Platform as a Service)
- Defining PaaS
- Understanding a complete PaaS stack
- Determining boundaries: IaaS+, pure PaaS, or custom SaaS?
- Identifying necessary functionality for cloud application development
- Multi-Tenancy
- Understanding multi-tenant systems
- Advancing economies of scale
- Tailoring applications for specific tenants
- Key considerations for multi-tenant applications:
Stability, SLA, legal & regulatory compliance, security, maintenance, 3rd-party components
- Key PaaS providers
- Microsoft Azure
- Google App Engine
- Force.com
- Future outlook for PaaS
5. SaaS (Software as a Service)
- Defining SaaS
- Illustrative examples
6. Cloud Architecture
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- The Service Layer Model & the principle of loose coupling
- Combining SOA + Event Driven Architecture (EDA) to create e-SOA
- Understanding REST and its critical role in cloud computing
- Industry perspectives on the synergy between SOA and Cloud
- The synergy between SOA and SaaS
- The synergy between SOA and PaaS
- Strategies for meeting demand
- Applying SOA principles to the cloud: loose coupling, encapsulation, asynchronous services
- Developing multi-tenant applications based on SOA
- Migrating legacy systems into the cloud
- The synergy between SOA and IaaS
- Service-Oriented Infrastructure (SOI)
- Differentiating service virtualization from server virtualization
- Automated, on-demand resource provisioning
7. Cloud Integration
- Understanding the need for cloud integration and associated challenges
- How SOA facilitates integration: focusing on integration strategies
- Evolving from application integration to Service Oriented Integration (SOI)
- The necessity of (inter)mediation
- Mediation functionality
- Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) reference architectures
- Specific requirements for cloud integration
- Evolving from ESB to the 'Internet Service Bus'
- Product Examples:
- Windows Azure AppFabric
- IBM Cast Iron
- Fiorano
8. Standards and Open Source Software
- Cloud standards
- Portability & interoperability: defining the problem
- Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF)
- Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
- Open Cloud Standards Incubator
- Apache Libcloud
- Open Source Software (OSS)
- OpenStack
9. Cloud Security
- The evolution towards Cloud Security
- Transitioning from traditional Web applications to SOA, then to Cloud
- Contrasting public cloud with on-premise datacenters
- Cloud security as a multi-dimensional challenge
- Dimension 1: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- Dimension 2: Network, VM, application, data
- Dimension 3: Cloud Service Provider (CSP), tenant
- Identity, Entitlement & Access Management (IdEA)
- Authentication & Access Control
- SAML, XACML, and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP)
- Ensuring security across on-premise systems and multiple Clouds
- Cloud Security Alliance standards
- Cloud Controls Matrix, Consensus Assessments Initiative, Cloud Audit, Cloud Trust Protocol
- Security, Trust, and Assurance Registry
10. Governance for Cloud-Based Services
- Understanding the distinctions between Business, IT, EA, SOA, and Cloud Governance
- Why SOA governance should serve as the foundation for Cloud governance
- Frameworks, standards, and technologies for SOA governance
- Open Group’s Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM)
- Open Group SOA Governance Reference Model (SGRM)
- SOA Governance Vitality Method (SGVM)
- Cloud governance
- Comparing similarities and differences with SOA governance
- Clarifying responsibilities: cloud provider vs. cloud customer
- Switching cloud providers – the ultimate test for governance robustness
- Establishing a Cloud governance methodology
- Technologies for implementing governance
11.Outlook and Conclusions
- Future trends and usage patterns for cloud computing
- The growing popularity of Hadoop in the Cloud
- Calculating Cloud Return on Investment (ROI)
- Evaluating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Requirements
- General understanding of distributed computing and application development.
Audience
- IT Architects
- IT Consultants
35 Hours
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All of the training was great. Especially liked the training documentation to reference. Looking forward to the Advanced Training, when we are ready.
Amy Gregg - Qualfon
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