Introduction to Cloud Services Model:
- Review Traditional Computing Challenges and Concerns
- Cloud Computing Concepts, History, and Definitions (Characteristics, Service Models, and Deployment Models)
- Activity Time: Cloud Services Values
- Cloud Computing Benefits and Challenges, Best and Least Suited Application Profiles and APIs
- Activity Time: Case Study Assignment
- Cloud Reference Architecture and Common Terminologies
- Activity Time: Comparison of On-Premise and Cloud-Based Cost Analysis
Introduction to Virtualization: The backbone of technology of Cloud Computing
- Virtualization: Definition, Concepts, History, and Relationship to Cloud Computing
- Virtualization: Benefits, Challenges, Risks, and Suitability to Organizations
- Hypervisor: Role and Purpose in Virtualization and the Various Types of Hypervisor
- Virtualization: Terminologies/Features
- Activity Time: High Availability Calculation
- Virtualization: Different Types of Virtualization
- Activity Time: Demo: Create, Manage, and Access Virtual Resources in the Cloud
Overview of Cloud Technologies and Applications:
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and MDM + EMM
- Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
- Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
- Big Data Analytics, NoSQL, NewSQL, and Internet of Things (IoT)
- Activity Time: Comparison of RDBMS, NoSQL, and NewSQL
- Activity Time: Case Study Assignment
Cloud Security, Risk, Compliance, and Governance:
- Security, Risk, Compliance and Governance Definitions
- Impact of Cloud Essential Characteristics
- Activity Time: Impact of Cloud Essential Characteristics
- Impact of Cloud Service Models
- Impact of Cloud Deployment Models
- Activity Time: Impact of Cloud Deployment Models
- Best Practices and General Cloud Security Recommendations
Preparing for Cloud Adoption:
- Cloud Strategy and Roadmap Preparation
- Solution Architectures: For Various Services, Deployment Models, and Organizational Capabilities
- Cloud Service Provider, SLA, and Cloud Migration
- Activity Time: Cloud Adoption Strategy
- Activity Time: Case Study Assignment
Cloud Service Management:
- CSM Overview: Definition, Architecture, Lifecycle, Actors
- CSM: Business Support
- CSM: Provisioning and Configuration
- CSM: Portability and Interoperability
- Cloud Management Platforms
- Activity Time: Identify Cloud Service Management Features of an Organization
- Activity Time: Case Study Assignment