Course Contents

Teaching Material:

Week 1 Emergence of Cloud Computing, Global Nature of the Cloud, Cloud-Based Service Offerings, Grid Computing , Reliability of Cloud Model
Week 2 Benefits of Cloud Model, Legal Issues, Key Characteristics of Cloud Computing, Challenges for the Cloud
Week 3 The Evolution of Cloud Computing: Computer Hardware Evolution, Internet Software Evolution, Server Virtualization
Week 4 Web Services Delivered from the Cloud: Communication-as-a-Service (CaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Week 5 Monitoring-as-a-Service (MaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
Week 6 Building Cloud Networks: Evolution from the MSP Model to Cloud, The Cloud Data Center, Collaboration, Service-Oriented Architectures
Week 7 Basic Approach to a Data Center-Based SOA, The Role of Open Source Software in Data Centers.
Week  8 Virtualization: Sun xVMVirtualBox, FreeDOS, 7-Zip Archive Tool.
Week 9 Federation, Presence, Identity, and Privacy in the Cloud: Federation in the Cloud
Week 10 Presence in the Cloud, Privacy and Its Relation to Cloud-Based Information Systems.
Week 11 Security in the Cloud, Cloud Security Challenges,
Week 12 Software-as-a-Service Security, Is Security-as-a-Service the New NSSP?
Week 13 Common Standards in Cloud Computing
Week 14 The Open Cloud Consortium, The Distributed Management Task Force
Week 15  Standards of Application Development
Week 16 Standards for Messaging, Standards for Security