DURATION
One Day.
Outline for Introduction to Cloud Computing for Managers Training
1. Introduction to Cloud Computing
- What is cloud computing
- Pros and cons for cloud computing
- Evolution of cloud computing
- Moving beyond the organization
- Cloud delivery models overview
- Business reasons and measurable effects of cloud computing [how does it scale, can it scale to 0, turning stuff off, prove by design that there will be savings, different best practices of coding on the cloud – exception handling. Tweak IT’s work based the invoice.]
- Talk about scalability and resiliency
- Mindset of how cloud was built by each vendor
2. Operational Transformation
- Transformation of Managed Services
- Virtualization
- Automation
- Accessing Cloud Services
- Where is my data located?
- Using Existing Operational Staff
- Best Practices
3. Deploying Your Cloud
- Build your own private cloud or use public cloud?
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Managing Scope, Releases, and expectations of your customer
- Deployment Best Practices
4. Moving your applications to the cloud
- Moving your applications to the Cloud
- Types of applications
- Characteristics of applications
- The cloud Approach to Application Development and Delivery
- Methodology for application transformation
- Assessing the applications to move it to cloud
- Best Practices
5. Billing and Procurement
- Capital Versus Operational Expenses
- Building it as needed
- Financial Tracking and Billing
- Legal agreements and Contract
- Software Licensing
- The Current Cloud Industry: overview of the Leading Providers and Integrators
- Best Practices
6. Securing your cloud
- Planning and Design
- Security when automation is the norm
- Identity Management and Federation
- Where is my data located?
- Best Practices