Course Description

Course Name:	What You Need to Know About Cloud Computing
Time & Date:	9 AM - 5 PM, Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Location:	Holiday Inn Select Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal park Road, Woburn, MA
Speaker:	Michael Stiefel, Reliable Software, Inc.

Overview

Computing power is available when you need it, where you need it. You only use as much as you need. Such is the dream of cloud computing. We are far from realizing this dream.

Nonetheless, there are many targets of opportunity now for organizations to build cloud applications. Small and medium sized businesses can develop services and applications that up to now could only be provided by large companies. Startups can minimize their infrastructure costs. Businesses of all sizes can use cloud infrastructure to handle unpredictable bursts of computing activity, or deliver applications to their users with minimal impact on their customers.

Building software that lives in the cloud requires managers, business analysts, architects, and developers to think differently about security, infrastructure, databases, and applications.

This short course will teach you to understand cloud technologies, and how to use business requirements to make the proper engineering tradeoffs and use the these technologies correctly.

OUTLINE

A. Introduction

Understand what cloud computing is and is not
Understand basic cloud application opportunities
What is the difference between cloud computing and hosting?
What is the private cloud?
What application models work with cloud computing

B. Architectural and Design Issues with Cloud Applications

Latency and Bandwidth
CAP Theorem
Cloud Storage
Relational Databases in the Cloud
Security and Identity Management in the Cloud
Standards and Certifications
Interoperability
Virtualization
Economic and service level constraints on Cloud applications

C. Vendor Offerings

What are the various cloud technologies that the vendors offer?
How do to the vendor offerings map to business opportunities
Understand how to integrate cloud opportunities with your current business models

D. How to Get started with Cloud Computing

Case Studies
Finding Targets of Opportunity
Vendor toolkits
Barriers to Cloud Computing
Regulatory, Legal, and Political Environment For Cloud Computing

Benefits of attending

You will learn how to:

Distinguish the differing technical approaches of the various cloud computing vendors
Determine the key architectural and engineering decisions that you have to make to build a cloud application that differ from a conventional software application. These include the CAP Theorem, latency and bandwidth limits, the use of cloud storage and / or the relational database model, interoperability, virtualization, and security.
Determine how your business strategy helps you decide how to make the necessary technical tradeoffs among the various vendor offerings and technologies.
Explain the advantages of cloud computing to your customers
Understand the economics of cloud computing and service level agreements
Understand the social, political, and legal constraints on cloud computing technologies

Speaker’s Bio:

Michael Stiefel architects and develops cloud and software as a service applications for clients. He has spoken both nationally and internationally on many software development and application topics including Software as a Service, cloud technologies, software architecture, and business opportunities in the cloud. He served on the OASIS Technical Committee that developed the SOA Reference Model that was accepted as an OASIS standard. A Microsoft Solution Architect MVP, he has been an independent consultant for over 20 years, has written two books and many articles on software development topics. His S.B, S.M., and Ph.D are from MIT.

Notes, and coffee breaks are included with registration

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Friday, April 9, 2010

FEES

Payment received by April 6: IEEE Members $235

Payment received by April 6: Non-members $255

Payment received after April 6: IEEE Members $255

Payment received after April 6: Non-members $285