
Trace the shift from on-premises, plan, buy and operate IT models to virtualization, showing how application workload drives resource allocation and how hypervisors and virtual machines improve data-center efficiency.
Harness rapid elasticity to automatically scale cloud resources up or down according to demand, using auto-scaling and scaling policies to maintain performance and minimize idle costs.
Explore IaaS as the foundation of cloud computing, where on-demand compute and storage are rented, customers provision virtual resources while providers manage the underlying infrastructure, paying only for usage.
Showcases how software as a service delivers on-demand, subscription-based cloud apps managed by providers, accessible via a web-based user interface or APIs, with examples like Gmail, Salesforce, and Office 365.
Explore cloud deployment models: public, private, hybrid, and community, and understand how business requirements, security, and resources guide selection across service models and five essential characteristics.
Discover how the public cloud offers multi-tenant infrastructure owned by providers, with pay-as-you-go resources and scalable elasticity, accessible via credit card accounts.
Explore how public cloud providers deploy global data centers and fast networks to scale capacity across regions and availability zones, with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure.
Defines private cloud as a single-tenant, single-organization infrastructure, deployed on-premises or by a third-party provider, not public. Shows virtualization and automated resource allocation for scaling and control of sensitive workloads.
Private cloud enables faster responsiveness and self-provisioning, delivering security and control with single-tenant deployment, while offering a foundation for cloud-aware applications—yet faces upfront costs and scalability limits.
Explore hybrid cloud, a mix of private and public cloud deployments that form a unified IT infrastructure and enable cloud bursting to scale workloads on demand.
Learn about cloud computing management platforms for private and hybrid clouds, enabling a self-service portal, resource allocation, monitoring, and unified management. Compare public cloud options and open-source versus commercial platforms.
Explore why organizations choose public cloud services, weighing benefits beyond cost reduction and identifying technologies and operational advantages that give a business edge.
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Cloud Computing is becoming the mainstream in the IT world as a growing amount of companies around the globe are in the process of a digital transformation while using the power of cloud-based services.
Evolution leading to Revolution – traditional IT already uses a variety of virtualization technologies to better utilize their physical IT resources. Moving to private clouds is another step in the data center evolution, where existing infrastructure will be utilized and upgraded to provide cloud-based services. In addition, public cloud services are getting huge market momentum as more and more companies are migrating their applications to 3rd party cloud providers. Public clouds are now leading companies to new business frontiers.
Basic Skills for Everyone – cloud computing and cloud services is touching almost every corner around us, whether you are a software developer, IT professional, system administrator, IT manager, solution architect, project manager, marketing manager, product manager, sales engineer, security expert, network expert, students entering the IT world and so on. Level 1 – we need to start with something so this is the first course in a larger training program (“Getting Started with Cloud Computing”) dedicated to the important subject of cloud computing. The training program is divided into several levels enabling students to start from scratch and grow their knowledge step by step or maybe select a specific level according to their knowledge and experience.
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