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Duration 35 hours
Course Outline
1. Introduction to Cloud Computing
- The Evolution of Cloud -
- Progression from application hosting to SaaS, and further to public & private clouds
- Defining the Cloud
- Selecting the appropriate model: IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS
- Common Cloud Usage Scenarios
- SaaS versus traditional enterprise computing
- The Programmable Web: Implementing APIs in the cloud
2. Cloud Migration
- Enhancing utilization through resource virtualization
- Managing cloud elasticity: Automated, on-demand resource provisioning
- Improving economies of scale via shared infrastructure and applications
- Advantages and challenges of cloud adoption
3. IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
- IaaS architecture and core features
- Major IaaS providers
- Microsoft Azure
- Web Roles & Worker Roles
- Scalability, load balancing, and failover
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) & Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
- IaaS+: AWS Application Services and Marketplace
- Regions & Availability Zones
- Networking & security
- Monitoring, Auto Scaling, & Load Balancing
- Developing scalable and fault-tolerant applications
- Strategies for outage protection
- Management interfaces
- Microsoft Azure
- Private & hybrid cloud
- Driving factors & challenges
- Defining requirements
- Methodology for constructing a private cloud
- Managing the private cloud
- Key vendors
- VMware
- Abiquo
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
- Hybrid clouds
- Use cases
- Product example: Eucalyptus
- Selecting the right private cloud model
4. PaaS (Platform as a Service)
- Defining PaaS
- The complete PaaS stack
- Determining the boundary: IasS+, pure PaaS, or custom SaaS?
- Functional requirements for building cloud applications
- Multi-Tenancy
- Understanding multi-tenant systems
- Enhancing economies of scale
- Application customization for tenants
- Key considerations for multi-tenant applications:
Stability, SLA, legal & regulatory, security, maintenance, 3rd-party components
- Leading PaaS providers?
- Microsoft Azure
- Google App Engine
- Force.com
- Perspectives: The future of PaaS
5. SaaS (Software as a Service)
- What is SaaS?
- Illustrative examples.
6. Cloud Architecture
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Service Layer Model & the concept of loose coupling
- SOA + Event Driven Architecture (EDA) = e-SOA
- The role of REST in cloud computing
- Industry view on the synergy between SOA and Cloud
- Synergy between SOA and SaaS
- Synergy between SOA and PaaS
- Strategies to meet demand
- Applying SOA principles to the cloud: loose coupling, encapsulation, asynchronous services
- Constructing multi-tenant applications based on SOA
- Migrating legacy systems to the cloud
- Synergy between SOA and IaaS
- Service-Oriented Infrastructure (SOI)
- Service virtualization vs. server virtualization
- Automated, on-demand resource provisioning
7. Cloud Integration
- The necessity and challenges of cloud integration
- The role of SOA in integration
- Transitioning from application integration to Service Oriented Integration (SOI)
- The need for mediation
- Mediation functionality
- Reference architectures for Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
- Specific requirements for cloud integration?
- Transition 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 challenges
- 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 of Cloud Security
- Progression from traditional Web applications to SOA and then Cloud
- Public cloud versus on-premise datacenter
- Cloud security as a multi-dimensional issue
- 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)
- Security spanning on-premise systems & 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
- Comparison: Business vs. IT vs. EA vs. SOA vs. Cloud Governance
- Why SOA governance serves as a foundation for Cloud governance
- SOA governance frameworks, standards, technologies
- Open Group’s Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM)
- Open Group SOA Governance Reference Model (SGRM)
- SOA Governance Vitality Method (SGVM)
- Cloud governance
- Similarities and differences with SOA governance
- Defining responsibilities: cloud provider vs. cloud customer
- Switching cloud providers – a critical test of governance
- A methodology for Cloud governance
- Technologies for implementing governance
11. Outlook and Conclusions
- Future outlook and usage of cloud computing
- Hadoop – Rising popularity in the Cloud
- Cloud Return on Investment (ROI)
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Requirements
- Foundational understanding of distributed computing and application development.
Target Audience
- IT Architects
- IT Consultants
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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