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Course Outline
1. Introduction to Cloud Computing
- How we got here -
- From application hosting to SaaS to public and private cloud
- Defining cloud computing
- Choosing your model: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- Typical cloud usage scenarios
- SaaS versus traditional enterprise computing
- The programmable web: an API in the cloud
2. Cloud Migration
- Improved utilisation through resource virtualisation
- Cloud management for elasticity: automated, on-demand resource provisioning
- Evolution of economies of scale through shared infrastructure and applications
- Benefits and challenges of cloud adoption
3. IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
- IaaS architecture and key features
- Major IaaS providers
- Microsoft Azure
- Web Roles and Worker Roles
- Scalability, load balancing, and failover
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
- IaaS+: AWS Application Services and Marketplace
- Regions and Availability Zones
- Networking and security
- Monitoring, Auto Scaling, and Load Balancing
- Building scalable and fault-tolerant applications
- Protecting against outages
- Management interfaces
- Microsoft Azure
- Private and hybrid cloud
- Drivers and challenges
- Defining requirements
- A methodology for building a private cloud
- Managing the private cloud
- Who can help: an overview of vendors
- VMware
- Abiquo
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
- Hybrid clouds
- Use cases
- Product example: Eucalyptus
- Selecting a private cloud model
4. PaaS (Platform as a Service)
- Defining PaaS
- A complete PaaS stack
- Where to draw the line: IaaS+, pure PaaS, or custom SaaS?
- What functionality is needed to build cloud applications?
- Multi-tenancy
- What is a multi-tenant system?
- Evolution of economies of scale
- Customising applications for individual tenants
- Considerations for multi-tenant applications:
- Major PaaS providers
- Microsoft Azure
- Google App Engine
- Force.com
- Outlook: the future of PaaS
- What is SaaS?
- Examples of SaaS.
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Service Layer Model and the concept of loose coupling
- SOA plus Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) equals e-SOA
- What is REST and why is it important for the cloud?
- Synergy between SOA and Cloud: the industry perspective
- Synergy between SOA and SaaS
- Synergy between SOA and PaaS
- Approaches to meeting demand
- Applying SOA principles to the cloud: loose coupling, encapsulation, and asynchronous services
- Building multi-tenant applications based on SOA
- Migrating legacy systems to the cloud
- Synergy between SOA and IaaS
- Service-Oriented Infrastructure (SOI)
- Service virtualisation versus server virtualisation
- Automated, on-demand resource provisioning
- The need for cloud integration and its challenges
- How SOA can help: focusing on integration
- From application integration to Service-Oriented Integration (SOI)
- The need for (inter)mediation
- Mediation functionality
- Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) reference architectures
- Specific requirements for cloud integration
- From ESB to “Internet Service Bus”
- Product examples:
- Windows Azure AppFabric
- IBM Cast Iron
- Fiorano
- Cloud standards
- Portability and interoperability: the problem statement
- Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF)
- Open Virtualisation Format (OVF)
- Open Cloud Standards Incubator
- Apache Libcloud
- Open Source Software (OSS)
- OpenStack
- The evolution to cloud security
- From traditional web applications to SOA to cloud
- Public cloud versus on-premises data centres
- Cloud security as a multi-dimensional problem
- Dimension 1: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- Dimension 2: Network, VM, application, data
- Dimension 3: CSP, tenant
- Identity, Entitlement and Access Management (IdEA)
- Authentication and Access Control
- SAML, XACML, and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP)
- Security across on-premises systems and multiple clouds
- Cloud Security Alliance standards
- Cloud Controls Matrix, Consensus Assessments Initiative, Cloud Audit, Cloud Trust Protocol
- Security, Trust, and Assurance Registry
- Business versus IT versus EA versus SOA versus cloud governance
- Why SOA governance can (and should) form the basis for cloud governance
- SOA governance frameworks, standards and technologies
- The 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
- Delineating responsibilities: cloud provider versus cloud customer
- Switching cloud providers – the worst-case test for your governance
- A cloud governance methodology
- Technologies for implementing governance
- Outlook and usage trends for cloud computing
- Hadoop – gaining popularity in the cloud
- Cloud Return on Investment (ROI)
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Stability, SLA, legal and regulatory compliance, security, maintenance, and third-party components
5. SaaS (Software as a Service)
6. Cloud Architecture
7. Cloud Integration
8. Standards and Open Source Software
9. Cloud Security
10. Governance for Cloud-Based Services
11. Outlook and Conclusions
Requirements
- A general understanding 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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