Course : Cloud Computing: A Summary

Seminar - 2d - 14h00 - Ref. AAS
Price : 2120 CHF E.T.

Cloud Computing: A Summary



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In person or remote class
Available in English on request

Ref. AAS
  2d - 14h00
2120 CHF E.T.







Practical details
Teaching methods
Illustration through concrete cases, discussion and feedback from actual cases.

Course schedule

1
Introduction

  • Defining Cloud Computing and SaaS
  • History leading to the emergence of cloud computing and SaaS.
  • Positioning of cloud computing versus classical hosting providers.
  • Positioning of SaaS (Software as a Service) with regard to the concept of ASP.
  • Relationship between Virtualization and Cloud Computing.
  • Impact of SOA on the adoption of Cloud Computing solutions by company.

2
SaaS and cloud computing

  • SaaS vs Cloud Computing.
  • SaaS and Cloud Computing, what usages do they provide solutions for.
  • Align costs and usage.
  • Benefits of Cloud Computing: dynamic outsourced resource allocation, logical isolation ...
  • Main Cloud computing drawbacks : Privacy, legislation ...
  • Estimation and cost tracking challenges with Cloud and SaaS.
  • Issues and benefits of the proliferation of unofficial Cloud ussage (Shadow IT)
  • Managing backups. What's the impact on the backup strategy?
  • Reversibility. Various strategies. Which one to choose.
  • What are the main blocking factors for entreprise adoption of the Cloud, how to overcome the reluctance?

3
Market solutions - Overview

  • Public Cloud Computing. Private Cloud Computing. Hybrid cloud. Cloud Computing Communityoffering.
  • Public cloud services. Amazon AWS and EC2 services, S3, SQS, SimpleDB, RDS, SNS, ELB, mail, ...
  • Google Cloud AppEngine and Compute Engine / BigQuery / CloudSQL / etc. Microsoft Windows Azure PaaS and IaaS.
  • OpenStack based clouds : HPCloud, Rackspace, IBM / Softlayer, etc. OVH "Public Cloud" and "Dedicated Cloud".
  • Offers VDC: VMware vCloud ServiceHybrid.
  • Other cloud offerings: DigitalOcean, Cloudwatt, Numergy Orange Flexible Computing SFR Cloud.
  • Private Cloud solutions. OpenStack, Eucalyptus and CloudStackCloudBees. VMware vCloud Director / vFabric.
  • Cloud Management solutions. RightScale, Scalr, Heroku, ...

4
Usage scenarios for Cloud Computing

  • Technically oriented usage scenarios (IaaS, PaaS).
  • Usage oriented scenarios (automation, mobility, Web integration ...).
  • Eligibility of applications for a cloud outsourcing: business, collaborative applications, human resources management...
  • Impact of SaaS and Cloud Computing on GreenIT.

5
Security and Privacy

  • Differentiation between Security and Privacy.
  • Levels where security can be implemented.
  • Key issues.
  • Main concerns.
  • Legal aspects.
  • Practical and technical aspects of data protection.
  • Supplier Selection and contracting.
  • Policy for password and keys management.
  • Authentication Delegation.

6
Integration of Cloud and SaaS solutions with enterprise IT

  • Technical aspects: communication between the IS and Cloud/SaaS solutions.
  • Issues of bandwidth and QoS the link between internal and external IF.
  • Software Licenses.
  • Single Sign On.
  • Internal management accounts and external access.
  • Choose the billing mode (credit cards, monthly bills, ...)

7
Information system architecture integrating Cloud Computing solutions

  • IT Architecture and SOA.
  • Schematic of an globale IS with some internal and SaaS and Cloud resources.
  • Patterns of Cloud application architectures.
  • Integration between the internal IS and SaaS solutions.
  • Issues with the integration between the interal IS and Cloud.
  • Issues of integration between different Cloud services.
  • Migration internal IS services to the Cloud.
  • Manage the increased dependency toward the network.

8
Private Clouds

  • Private Cloud, what for ?
  • Definition of private cloud computing.
  • Reminder about the basics of virtualization (para-virtualization, ...).
  • Difference with regard to virtualization inside an internal or external Datacenter.
  • Difference with regard to classical datacenters or “compute grids”.
  • Pros and cons. The economic equation. The main virtualization technologies.
  • Open-source tools for the private cloud (OpenStack, CloudStack, KVM, libvirt, ...).
  • Proprietary technologies.

9
The technical solutions and NoSQL Cloud

  • Databases for the Cloud.
  • Emergence of NoSQL databases. Differences with RDBMS.
  • Foundations for NoSQL database.
  • Features and limits of RDBMS.
  • Main opensource NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, HBase, ...).
  • Main integrated cloud NoSQL databases (Google Datastore / CloudSQL, Amazon DynamoDB / SimpleDB, Google BigQuery).


Customer reviews
4,3 / 5
Customer reviews are based on end-of-course evaluations. The score is calculated from all evaluations within the past year. Only reviews with a textual comment are displayed.
SEBASTIEN J.
19/03/26
4 / 5

Contenu assez technique pour lequel j’aurai aimé avoir un lexique (même en Anglais) des acronymes.La première question de chaque Quizz a une réponse contradictoire : le Cloud Computing est un service (1) ou une architecture (2), au premier quizz la bonne réponse est (1) alors qu’au second quizz la bonne réponse est (2).
FREDERIC L.
19/03/26
3 / 5

- Le formateur connaît très bien son sujet mais son ton est un peu trop monocorde- La vidéo explicative sur Terraform est très intéressante (il en faudrait plus de ce type-là)- Il y avait beaucoup de slides très chargées et pas très lisibles sur un écran 13’’- Beaucoup voire trop d’infos. Ressemble un peu à un inventaire de tout ce qui existe (Exemples : slides 257, 258 ou 462) --> pas très pertinent
CÉLINE C.
19/03/26
5 / 5

Excellente animation d’Arnaud.Merci pour la richesse des enseignements.



Publication date : 08/26/2024


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