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Course Outline
1. Introduction to Cloud Computing
- Historical Context
- The journey from application hosting to SaaS, and then to public & private clouds
- Defining Cloud
- Selecting your model: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- Common Cloud Usage Scenarios
- SaaS compared to traditional enterprise computing
- The programmable Web: APIs within the cloud
2. Cloud Migration
- Optimizing resource utilization through virtualization
- Managing cloud elasticity: automated, on-demand resource provisioning
- Expanding economies of scale via shared infrastructure and applications
- Benefits and challenges of cloud adoption
3. IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
- Understanding IaaS architecture and core features
- 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)
- AWS Application Services and Marketplace (IaaS+)
- Regions & Availability Zones
- Networking & security frameworks
- Monitoring, Auto Scaling, & Load Balancing
- Designing scalable and fault-tolerant applications
- Strategies to mitigate outage risks
- Management interfaces
- Microsoft Azure
- Private & hybrid cloud solutions
- Drivers & associated challenges
- Defining specific requirements
- A methodology for constructing a private cloud
- Managing private cloud operations
- Vendor landscape
- VMware
- Abiquo
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
- Hybrid cloud
- Use cases
- Product example: Eucalyptus
- Selecting the appropriate private cloud model
4. PaaS (Platform as a Service)
- Defining PaaS
- Components of a comprehensive PaaS stack
- Defining boundaries: IaaS+ versus pure-PaaS or custom-SaaS?
- Required functionality for cloud application development
- Multi-Tenancy
- Understanding multi-tenant systems
- Advancing economies of scale
- Customizing applications for individual tenants
- Key considerations for multi-tenant applications:
Stability, SLA compliance, legal & regulatory requirements, security, maintenance, and 3rd-party components
- Leading 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
- SOA combined with Event Driven Architecture (EDA) creates e-SOA
- The importance of REST for cloud environments
- The industry perspective on SOA and Cloud synergy
- SOA and SaaS synergy
- SOA and PaaS synergy
- Strategies to meet demand
- Applying SOA principles to the cloud: loose coupling, encapsulation, asynchronous services
- Developing multi-tenant applications using SOA
- Migrating legacy systems to the cloud
- SOA and IaaS synergy
- Service-Oriented Infrastructure (SOI)
- Service virtualization vs. server virtualization
- Automated, on-demand resource provisioning
7. Cloud Integration
- Identifying the need for cloud integration and its challenges
- How SOA facilitates integration
- 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
- Transitioning from ESB to "Internet Service Bus"
- Product Examples:
- Windows Azure AppFabric
- IBM Cast Iron
- Fiorano
8. Standards and Open Source Software
- Cloud standards
- Portability & interoperability: addressing the problem statement
- 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 toward Cloud Security
- Progressing from traditional Web applications to SOA and Cloud
- Public cloud compared to on-premise datacenters
- Cloud security as a multi-dimensional challenge
- Dimension 1: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- Dimension 2: Network, VM, application, data
- Dimension 3: 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 Business vs. IT vs. EA vs. SOA vs. Cloud Governance
- Why SOA governance should form 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
- Similarities and distinctions from SOA governance
- Defining responsibilities: cloud provider vs. cloud customer
- Switching cloud providers – the ultimate test of governance
- A methodology for Cloud governance
- Technologies for implementing governance
11.Outlook and Conclusions
- Perspectives and usage trends for cloud computing
- Hadoop – increasing popularity within the Cloud
- Calculating Cloud Return on Investment (ROI)
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Requirements
- Foundational knowledge of distributed computing and application development.
Target Audience
- IT Architects
- IT Consultants
35 Hours
Testimonials (2)
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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