This course provides a hands-on comprehensive study of Cloud concepts and capabilities across the various Cloud service models including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). IaaS topics start with a detailed study the evolution of infrastructure migration approaches from VMWare/Xen/KVM virtualization, to adaptive virtualization, and Cloud Computing / on-demand resources provisioning. Mainstream Cloud infrastructure services and related vendor solutions are also covered in detail. PaaS topics cover a broad range of Cloud vendor platforms including AWS, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, Eucalyptus,
OpenStack and others as well as a detailed study of related platform services such as storage services.
resources management and monitoring capabilities.

This course provides a hands-on comprehensive study of Cloud concepts and capabilities across the various Cloud service models including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). IaaS topics start with a detailed study the evolution of infrastructure migration approaches from VMWare/Xen/KVM virtualization, to adaptive virtualization, and Cloud Computing / on-demand resources provisioning. Mainstream Cloud infrastructure services and related vendor solutions are also covered in detail. PaaS topics cover a broad range of Cloud vendor platforms including AWS, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, Eucalyptus,
OpenStack and others as well as a detailed study of related platform services such as storage services.
resources management and monitoring capabilities.

Morgan Kaufmann is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things by Kai Hwang, Jack Dongarra & Geoffrey C. Fox. The 472 page text is due out in September 2011.

Morgan Kaufmann is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things by Kai Hwang, Jack Dongarra & Geoffrey C. Fox. The 472 page text is due out in September 2011.