6th Sem: Cloud Computing Syllabus

 

SEMESTER VI

CORE THEORY PAPER – 8

CLOUD COMPUTING (BCS61)

UNIT I: UNDERSTANDING CLOUD COMPUTING

Cloud Computing – History of Cloud Computing – Cloud Architecture – Cloud Storage – Why Cloud Computing Matters – Advantages of Cloud Computing – Disadvantages of Cloud Computing – Cloud Services.

UNIT II: DEVELOPING CLOUD SERVICES

Types of Cloud Service Development – Software as a Service – Platform as a Service – Web Services – On-Demand Computing – Discovering Cloud Services Development Services and Tools – Amazon Ec2 – Google App Engine – IBM Clouds.

UNIT III: CLOUD COMPUTING FOR EVERYONE

Centralizing Email Communications – Collaborating on Schedules – Collaborating on To-Do Lists – Cloud Computing for the Community – Collaborating on Group Projects and Events.

 

UNIT IV: PROGRAMMING MODEL

Parallel and Distributed Programming Paradigms – Map Reduce, Twister and Iterative Map Reduce – Hadoop Library from Apache – Mapping Applications - Programming Support - Google App Engine, Amazon AWS - Cloud Software Environments -Eucalyptus, Open Nebula, Open Stack, Aneka, CloudSim.

UNIT V: SECURITY IN THE CLOUD

Security Overview - Cloud Security Challenges and Risks - Software-as-a-Service Security- Security Governance - Risk Management - Security Monitoring - Security Architecture Design - Data Security - Application Security - Virtual Machine Security - Identity Management and Access Control - Autonomic Security.

TEXT BOOK:

1. Michael Miller, “Cloud Computing: Web-Based Applications That Change the Way You Work and Collaborate Online”, Que Publishing, August 2008.

REFERENCES:

1. Kai Hwang, Geoffrey C Fox, Jack G Dongarra, “Distributed and Cloud Computing, From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things”, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2012.

2. John W.Rittinghouse and James F.Ransome, “Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security”, CRC Press, 2010.

3. Toby Velte, Anthony Velte, Robert Elsenpeter, “Cloud Computing, A Practical Approach”, TMH, 2009.

4. Kumar Saurabh, “Cloud Computing – insights into New-Era Infrastructure”, Wiley India, 2011.

5. George Reese, “Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud” O'Reilly