Cloud computing components – Infrastructure – services – storage applications –database services – Deployment models of Cloud – Services offered by Cloud – Benefits and Limitations of Cloud Computing – Issues in Cloud security – Cloud security services and design principles.

Virtualization – Enabling technology for cloud computing – Types of Virtualization – Server Virtualization – Desktop Virtualization – Memory Virtualization – Application and Storage Virtualization – Tools and Products available for Virtualization.

Getting started with SaaS – Understanding the multitenant nature of SaaS solutions – Understanding Open SaaS Solutions – Understanding Service Oriented Architecture – PaaS – Benefits and Limitations of PaaS.

Understanding IaaS – Improving performance through Load balancing – Server Types within IaaS solutions – Utilizing cloud based NAS devices – Understanding Cloud based data storage – Cloud based backup devices – Cloud based database solutions – Cloud based block storage. Case Study on MANET Banking- Case study of Netflix using AWS Cloud.

Client Server Distributed Architecture for cloud – Traditional apps vs. Cloud apps – Client side programming model: Web clients. Mobile clients – Server Side Programming Technologies: AJAX, JSON, Web Services (RPC, REST) – MVC Design Patterns for Cloud Application Development. Case study on launching and scaling using Azure to build games.