Cloud Computing Technologies: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction

You Will Learn How To

Thoroughly assess the architectures, components, operation and tools of cloud computing
Leverage leading cloud computing vendors and their solutions for business advantage
Exploit Software as a Service (SaaS) to optimise cost and resources
Create, deploy and secure applications and services with Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Select and commission a computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Design a cloud implementation strategy that minimises the risk for your organisation

Course Benefits

Cloud computing is revolutionising all aspects of IT, including hardware, operating systems and applications. Faced with a rapidly changing business environment, organisations are under pressure to respond with a flexible IT infrastructure and applications. In this course, you gain the key knowledge and experience required to leverage both the business and technical benefits of cloud computing. You develop an effective implementation strategy and learn to build and deploy applications to the cloud.

Who Should Attend

Anyone seeking to exploit the benefits of cloud computing technologies. A basic familiarity with Microsoft Windows, the Internet and the Web is helpful.

Hands-On Training

Throughout the course, a series of hands-on exercises provides you with practical experience in cloud computing. Exercises include:

Sharing documents with cloud-based collaboration and productivity tools
Securing a cloud-based service and application
Building an application to leverage the elasticity of the cloud
Persisting structured data in the cloud
Commissioning an immediate server infrastructure
Evaluating cost benefits of a cloud solution
Developing a business plan for cloud adoption
Specifying a cloud adoption and migration strategy

Course Content

Introduction to Cloud Computing

Defining cloud computing

Components of a computing cloud
Differentiating types of clouds: public, private, hybrid

Delivering services from the cloud

Categorising service types
Comparing vendor cloud products: Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others

Adopting the Cloud

Key drivers of cloud computing solutions

Instantaneous provisioning of computing resources
Handling varied loads with elasticity and seamless scalability
Tapping into an infinite storage capacity
Cost effective pay-as-you-use billing models

Aspects of cloud security

Benefits of secure cloud providers
Handling sensitive data
Assigning responsibilities for security

Delivering Software as a Service (SaaS)

Characterising SaaS

Minimising the need for local hardware and software
Streamlining administration with centralised installation and updates
Optimising cost and performance with the ability to scale on demand

Comparing service scenarios

Improving collaboration with business productivity tools
Simplifying business process creation by integrating existing components

Inspecting SaaS technologies

Deploying Web applications
Implementing Web services: SOAP, REST
Choosing a development platform

Exploiting Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Exploring the technical foundation for PaaS

Specifying the components of PaaS
Analysing vendor PaaS provisions
Selecting an appropriate implementation

Building services with solution stacks

Evaluating the architecture of vendor specific platforms
Becoming familiar with service platform tools
Leveraging the power of scalable middleware

Managing cloud storage

Controlling unstructured data in the cloud
Deploying relational databases in the cloud
Securing data in the cloud

Employing support services

Testing in the cloud
Monitoring cloud-based services
Analysing portability across platforms

Deploying Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Enabling technologies

Scalable server clusters
Achieving transparency with platform virtualisation
Elastic storage devices

Accessing IaaS

Provisioning servers on demand
Handling dynamic and static IP addresses
Tools and support for management and monitoring

Building a Business Case

Calculating the financial implications

Analysing current and future computing requirements
Comparing in-house facilities to the cloud
Estimating economic factors downstream

Preserving business continuity

Selecting appropriate service level agreements
Safeguarding access to assets in the cloud
Security, availability and disaster recovery strategies

Migrating to the Cloud

Technical considerations

Re-architecting applications for the cloud
Integrating the cloud with existing applications
Avoiding vendor lock-in

Planning the migration

Incremental vs. one-step solution
Selecting a vendor
Establishing staff skill requirements

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