Unit 1: Introduction

• Defining the Cloud
• Cloud Computing
• Emergence of Cloud Computing
• Cloud Based Service Models
• Grid Computing or Cloud Computing
• Components of Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing Deployment Models
• Benefits of using cloud models
• Legal Issues in Using Cloud Models
• Ethical issues in cloud computing
• Characteristics of Cloud Computing
• Evolution of cloud computing
• Challenges for cloud computing
• Grid Computing
• Distributed Computing in Grid and Cloud

Unit 2: Cloud Service Models

• Cloud Communication
• Communication-as-a-Service (CaaS)
• Advantages of CaaS
• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
• Popular IaaS solutions
• Modern On-Demand Computing
• Amazon’s Elastic Cloud
• Amazon EC2 Service Characteristics
• Elastic IP Addressing
• Monitoring-as-a-Service (MaaS)
• The Traditional On-Premises Model
• Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
• Key Characteristics of PaaS
• Software-as-a-Service
• SaaS Implementation Issues
• The key characteristics of SaaS
• Benefits of SaaS Model
• Jericho Cube Model
• XaaS

Unit 3: Building Cloud Networks

• Evolution from Managed service providers (MSP) to Cloud Computing
• Single Purpose architectures to multi-purpose architectures
• Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
• Combining Cloud and SOA
• Characterizing SOA
• Open Source Software in Data Centers
• Data center virtualization
• Cloud data center

Unit 4: Security in Cloud Computing

• Cloud Security Challenges
• Software as a Service Security
• Security Architecture Design
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Data Privacy
• Data Security
• Application Security
• Virtual Machine Security