Master Guide to Cloud Computing Notes

The topic covered on this blog are linked below:

MODULE 1: OVERVIEW OF CLOUD COMPUTING

1. What is a cloud & Definition of cloud
2. Characteristics of Cloud
3. Why use cloud?
4. How clouds are changing?
5. Driving Factors towards cloud
6. Comparing grid with other computing systems
7. Workload patterns for cloud
8. Big Data
9. IT as a service

MODULE 2: CLOUD COMPUTING CONCEPTS

1. Concepts of cloud computing'
2. Cloud computing leverages the internet
3. Positioning cloud to a grid infrastructure
4. Elasticity and Scalability
5. Virtualization
6. Characteristics of Virtualization
7. Benefits of Virtualization
8. Virtualization in Cloud Computing
9. Hypervisors
10. Multi Tenancy
11. Types of Tenancy
12. Application Programming Interfaces (API)
13. Billing and metering of services
14. Economies of scale
15. Management in CC
16. Tooling in CC
17. Automation in CC
18. Desktops in cloud security

MODULE 3: CLOUD SERVICE DELIVERY

1. Cloud Service
2. Cloud Service Model Architecture
3. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
4. IaaS details
5. Platform as a Service (PaaS)
6. PaaS details
7. Software as a Service (SaaS)
8. SaaS details
9. Examples of SaaS applications
10. Tradeoff in cost to install
11. Common cloud management platform reference architecture 
12. Architecture overview diagram

MODULE 4: CLOUD DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS

1. Cloud deployment models
2. Public Cloud
3. Hybrid Cloud
4. Community Virtual Private clouds
5. Vertical & Special Purpose
6. Migration paths for clouds
7. Selection Criteria for Cloud deployment

MODULE 5: SECURITY IN CLOUD COMPUTING

1. Cloud security Reference Model
2. How security gets integrated
3. Cloud Security
4. Understanding Security Risks
5. Principal security dangers to cloud computing
6. Virtualization and multi -tenancy
7. Internal Security breaches
8. Data corruption or loss
9. User account and service hijacking
10. Steps to reduce cloud security breaches
11. Reducing cloud security
12. Identity management: detection and forensics
13. Benefits of identity
14. Encryption Techniques
15. Encryption & Encrypting Data
16. Symmetric Key Encryption
17. Asymmetric Key Encryption
18. Digital Signature
19. What is SSL?

MODULE 6: CASE STUDIES

1. IBM Smart Cloud
2. Amazon Web services
3. google Cloud Platform
4. Windows Azure Platform
5. Comparison of different platforms
6. Common building blocks

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