ITC 44000 - Foundations Of Cloud Computing

This course provides a detailed examination of distributed and cloud computing systems, enabling technologies and infrastructures; cloud architectures, interoperability, and standards; cloud computing service models, and use cases; enterprise, business, and government cloud strategies for optimizing computing resources. Students are introduced to the concepts and issues of cloud computing and service models (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS), service-oriented architectures (SOA), lease-or-buy evaluation and trade-off decision models, investing strategies and sustainable IT development; cloud computing programming and software environments, cloud applications in different industry sectors, and open issues including security, legal, ethical, and public policy.

Preparation for Course
P: ITC 33100 with grade of C- or better.

Cr. 3.