Cloud Computing

Learn cloud computing fundamentals, including architecture, infrastructure, and models like public, hybrid, and community clouds, with focus on data storage, virtualization, security, and mobile cloud computing.

Explore the basics of cloud computing, including deployment models (public, private, hybrid, community) and service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), and how it enables on-demand access without local software installation.

Plan cloud deployments by aligning business requirements with data security, budget, cloud type, backups, training, and access needs. Evaluate strategy, value proposition, and SLA to ensure service quality.

Discover cloud computing technologies, including virtualization, service oriented architecture, SSO-A, grid computing, and utility computing, and see how multitenant isolation enables customized on-demand resources in a pay-per-use model.

Explore cloud computing infrastructure, including servers, storage, network management software, deployment software, and platform virtualization via hypervisors for secure, scalable, and transparent resource sharing, backed by a distributed file system.

Explore the public cloud model, its pay-per-use cost efficiency, reliability, flexibility, location independence, and on-demand scalability, along with security and customization limitations.

Explore how the private cloud model keeps systems accessible within a single organization, offering higher security, more control, and improved cost and energy efficiency.

Explore how the hybrid cloud blends public and private clouds to run non-critical and critical activities, delivering scalability, flexibility, cost efficiencies, security, and addressing networking issues and security compliance.

The community cloud model enables a group of organizations to share infrastructure and resources at lower cost with enhanced security. It clarifies governance and data considerations with real-life campus examples.

Explore IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and IDaaS, and how infrastructure as a service provides virtual machines, storage, networks, and IP addresses via server virtualization. Reveal benefits of cost effectiveness and control.

Learn how cloud computing management ensures resource access and performance through load balancing, backups, data flow, and capacity deployment, while audits, vendor lock-in, capacity planning, scaling, logs, and testing.

Understand cloud storage concepts and offsite storage managed by third parties via web services API. Learn block and file storage, unmanaged and managed classes, and creating resilient cloud storage systems.

Explain cloud computing virtualization by showing how a single physical resource serves multiple tenants through virtual machines managed by a hypervisor, covering full virtualization, emulation virtualization, and pair of virtualization.

Assess cloud deployment security by analyzing resource risk, understanding service models and cloud types, and applying data protection through access control, auditing, authentication, and isolation via brokered storage.

Explore cloud computing challenges including security and privacy, portability, interoperability, computing performance, and reliability and availability, and learn how encryption, hardware security, and security applications address them.

Explore how mobile cloud computing offloads processing to the cloud, enabling rich internet media experiences on smartphones while data resides in the cloud and apps consume web services.