The next wave of computing is in the Cloud! Increasingly businesses want to get out of the complexity of managing data centers and instead focus on their core competencies. This means that more and more businesses will adopt cloud computing as a means to handle their IT requirements which gives them the freedom from day-to-day management of IT infrastructure.

This program demystifies Cloud Computing, and attempts to define the cloud phenomenon and all the technologies that go with it. Cloud Computing is very much a work in progress at this time and so while the course comprehensively covers the basic technologies involved (e.g. Virtualization), the history of the cloud and its roots in Service Oriented Architecture and Utility Computing, it has ample scope to take in the fast changing models that are thrown out by cloud computing. Students of this program will also benefit from the several practical credits that provide hands-on capabilities on the various aspects of cloud.