MCA 504.3: Cloud Computing

Lectures: 4 Periods/Week Sessional Marks: 30
University Exam: 3 Hours University Examination Marks: 70


UNIT-I
UNDERSTANDING CLOUD COMPUTING:
Beyond the Desktop : An Introduction to Cloud Computing ,Are you ready for Computing in the Cloud ?,Developing Cloud Services.

UNIT-II
CLOUD COMPUTING FOR EVERYONE:
Industrial Cloud Computing for the Family, Cloud Computing for the Community,Cloud Computing for the Corporation.

UNIT-III
USING CLOUD SERVICES:
Collaborating on calendars, Schedules and task management,Collaborating on event management, Collaborating on Contact Management, Collaborating on Project Management, Collaborating on Word Processing, Collaborating on Spreadsheets. Collaborating on Databases, Collaborating on Presentations, Storing and Sharing Files and Other Online Content, Sharing Digital Photographs, Controlling it all with Web-Based desktops.

UNIT-IV
OUTSIDE THE CLOUD: Other ways to Collaborate Online
Collaborating via Web-Based Communication Tools,Collaborating Social Networks and Groupware,Collaborating via Blogs and Wikis.


Text Books

  1. Michael Miller, " Cloud Computing", Pearson Education, New Delhi. All the four parts into which the Textbook is divided.
Reference Books
  1. Haley Beard, Cloud Computing Best Practices for Managing and Measuring Processes for On-demand Computing, Applications and Data Centers in theCloud with SLAs, Emereo Pty Limited, July 2008.
  2. Cloud Application Architectures, George Reese, ISBN: 8184047142,Shroff/O' Reilly, 2009.