Cloud Computing

Definition of Cloud – Evolution of Cloud Computing Underlying Principles of Parallel and Distributed Computing – Cloud Characteristics – Elasticity in Cloud – On‐demand Provisioning.

REST and Systems of Systems Web Services – Publish, Subscribe Model – Basics of Virtualization – Types of Virtualization – Implementation Levels of Virtualization – Virtualization Structures – Tools and Mechanisms – Virtualization of CPU – Memory – I/O Devices –Virtualization Support and Disaster Recovery.

Layered Cloud Architecture Design – NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture – Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds – laaS – PaaS – SaaS – Architectural Design Challenges – Cloud Storage – Storage‐as‐a‐Service – Advantages of Cloud Storage – Cloud Storage Providers – S3.

Inter Cloud Resource Management – Resource Provisioning and Resource Provisioning Methods – Global Exchange of Cloud Resources – Security Overview – Cloud Security Challenges – Software‐as‐a‐Service Security – Security Governance – Virtual Machine Security – IAM – Security Standards.

MapReduce – Virtual Box — Google App Engine – Programming Environment for Google App Engine –– Open Stack – Federation in the Cloud – Four Levels of Federation – Federated Services and Applications – Future of Federation.