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Course Outline
1. Introduction to Cloud Computing
- Historical Context
- Evolution from application hosting to SaaS, and then to public and private clouds
- Defining Cloud
- Selecting your model: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- Common Cloud Use Cases
- SaaS versus traditional enterprise computing
- The programmable Web: leveraging APIs in the cloud
2. Cloud Migration
- Optimizing resource utilization through virtualization
- Cloud management for elasticity: automated, on-demand resource provisioning
- Scaling economies through shared infrastructure and applications
- Benefits and challenges of cloud adoption
3. IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
- IaaS architecture and core features
- Key IaaS Providers
- Microsoft
- Web Roles and Worker Roles
- Scalability, load balancing, and failover capabilities
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
- AWS Application Services and Marketplace
- Regions and Availability Zones
- Networking and security protocols
- Monitoring, Auto Scaling, and Load Balancing
- Designing scalable and fault-tolerant applications
- Strategies to mitigate outages
- Management interfaces
- Microsoft
- Private and Hybrid Cloud
- Drivers and challenges
- Defining requirements
- A methodology for building a private cloud
- Managing private cloud environments
- Vendor support 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 the boundary: IaaS+, pure PaaS, or custom SaaS?
- Required functionality for cloud-based application development
- Multi-Tenancy
- Understanding multi-tenant systems
- Scaling economies
- Customizing applications for specific tenants
- Key considerations for multi-tenant applications:
Stability, SLA, legal and regulatory compliance, security, maintenance, and third-party components
- Major PaaS Providers
- Microsoft
- Google App Engine
- Force.com
- The future outlook for PaaS
5. SaaS (Software as a Service)
- Defining SaaS
- Examples of SaaS applications
6. Cloud Architecture
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- The Service Layer Model and the concept of loose coupling
- SOA combined with Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) to create e-SOA
- The importance of REST for cloud computing
- 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, and asynchronous services
- Building multi-tenant applications based on SOA
- Migrating legacy systems into the cloud
- SOA and IaaS synergy
- Service-Oriented Infrastructure (SOI)
- Service virtualization versus server virtualization
- Automated, on-demand resource provisioning
7. Cloud Integration
- The necessity of cloud integration and its associated challenges
- How SOA facilitates integration
- Transitioning from application integration to Service-Oriented Integration (SOI)
- The role of mediation
- Mediation functionality
- Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) reference architectures
- Specific requirements for cloud integration
- Evolving from ESB to an “Internet Service Bus”
- Product Examples
- Windows Azure AppFabric
- IBM Cast Iron
- Fiorano
8. Standards and Open Source Software
- Cloud Standards
- Portability and interoperability: addressing 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
- Evolution of Cloud Security
- From traditional web applications to SOA and then to the cloud
- Public cloud versus on-premise data centers
- 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 and Access Control
- SAML, XACML, and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP)
- 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
- Business vs. IT vs. EA vs. SOA vs. Cloud Governance
- Why SOA governance serves as the foundation for Cloud governance
- SOA governance frameworks, standards, and 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 compared to SOA governance
- Defining responsibilities: cloud provider vs. cloud customer
- Switching cloud providers – the ultimate test for your governance framework
- A methodology for Cloud governance
- Technologies for implementing governance
11. Outlook and Conclusions
- Future trends and usage of cloud computing
- Hadoop – increasing popularity in the Cloud
- Cloud Return on Investment (ROI)
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Requirements
- Foundational knowledge of distributed computing and application development.
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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