IT 7733: Fundamentals of Enterprise Cloud

3 Credit Hours
This course will cover the fundamental ideas behind enterprise cloud, the evolution of the paradigm, its applicability; benefits, as well as current and future challenges; the basic ideas and principles in enterprise cloud; cloud management techniques and enterprise cloud deployment considerations; cloud storage technologies and relevant distributed file systems, NoSQL databases and object storage. The course also covers the hands-on labs to practice on the cloud platform.

Course Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

Define and explain enterprise cloud with a focus on the Cloud, its architecture, and its global infrastructure.
Describe and use security and compliance measures of enterprise cloud.
Utilize IT cost and control concepts, e.g., total cost of ownership, and tools for comparing on-premises IT, cloud IT and hybrid IT with a focus on the cloud scaling, monitoring, costing, and pricing tools.
Explain and arrange the fundamental components of enterprise cloud, including networking and content delivery, compute, storage, and databases, practice in labs.