Course Pre-requisites: Computer Networks

Syllabus

· Overview of Computing Paradigm [3 hours]

o Recent trends in Computing

Grid Computing, Cluster Computing, Distributed Computing, Utility Computing, Cloud Computing

o Evolution of cloud computing

Business driver for adopting cloud computing

• Introduction to Cloud Computing [3 hours]
• Cloud Computing (NIST Model)

Introduction to Cloud Computing, History of Cloud Computing, Cloud service providers

• Properties, Characteristics & Disadvantages

Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing, Benefits of Cloud Computing, Cloud computing vs. Cluster computing vs. Grid computing

• Role of Open Standards

• Cloud Computing Architecture [4 hours]
• Cloud computing stack

Comparison with traditional computing architecture (client/server), Services provided at various levels, How Cloud Computing Works, Role of Networks in Cloud computing, protocols used, Role of Web services

• Service Models (XaaS)
• Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS)
• Platform as a Service(PaaS)
• Software as a Service(SaaS)
• Deployment Models
• Public cloud
• Private cloud
• Hybrid cloud
• Community cloud

• Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) [4 hours]
• Introduction to IaaS

IaaS definition, Introduction to virtualization, Different approaches to virtualization, Hypervisors, Machine Image, Virtual Machine(VM)

• Resource Virtualization
• Server
• Storage
• Network

Virtual Machine(resource) provisioning and manageability, storage as a service, Data storage in cloud computing(storage as a service)

• Examples
• Amazon EC2

Renting, EC2 Compute Unit, Platform and Storage, pricing, customers

• Eucalyptus

• Platform as a Service(PaaS) [3 hours]
• Introduction to PaaS

What is PaaS, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

• Cloud Platform and Management
• Computation
• Storage
• Examples
• Google App Engine
• Microsoft Azure
• SalesForce.com’s Force.com platform

• Software as a Service(PaaS) [4 hours]
• Introduction to SaaS
• Web services
• Web 2.0
• Web OS
• Case Study on SaaS

• Service Management in Cloud Computing [5 hours]
• Service Level Agreements(SLAs)
• Billing & Accounting
• Comparing Scaling Hardware: Traditional vs. Cloud
• Economics of scaling: Benefitting enormously
• Managing Data
• Looking at Data, Scalability & Cloud Services
• Database & Data Stores in Cloud
• Large Scale Data Processing

• Cloud Security [5 hours]
• Infrastructure Security

Network level security, Host level security, Application level security

• Data security and Storage

Data privacy and security Issues, Jurisdictional issues raised by Data location

• Identity & Access Management
• Access Control
• Trust, Reputation, Risk
• Authentication in cloud computing, Client access in cloud, Cloud contracting Model, Commercial and business considerations

• Case Study on Open Source & Commercial Clouds [9 hours]
• Eucalyptus
• Microsoft Azure
• Amazon EC2

Reference Books

• Cloud Computing Bible, Barrie Sosinsky, Wiley-India, 2010

• Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms, Editors: Rajkumar Buyya, James Broberg, Andrzej M. Goscinski, Wile, 2011

• Cloud Computing: Principles, Systems and Applications, Editors: Nikos Antonopoulos, Lee Gillam, Springer, 2012

• Cloud Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Secure Cloud Computing, Ronald L. Krutz, Russell Dean Vines, Wiley-India, 2010