I heard that IIIT Hyderabad offers a course based on Cloud Computing. I am interested to do this Course, but before applying for admission, I want to see its course structure. So will you please provide course structure of Cloud Computing Course of IIIT Hyderabad?

The Search and Information Extraction Lab (SIEL) of IIIT Hyderabad offers 4-credit course on Cloud Computing for both Bachelors and Masters Students.

The course will be co-instructed by Dr. Vasudeva Varma (Head, SIEL) and ReddyRaja A. from Pramati (Research Consultant, SIEL).

Course Structure:
Introduction to Cloud Computing
Cloud introduction and overview
Different clouds
Risks
Cloud Computing Architecture
Requirements
Introduction Cloud computing architecture
On Demand Computing
Virtualization at the infrastructure level
Security in Cloud computing environments
CPU Virtualization - A discussion on Hypervisors
Storage Virtualization - A discussion on SAN, ISCSI
Network Virtualization - A discussion on VLAN
Cloud Computing Architecture - Amazon Case study
Introduction to Amazon Cloud Computing services
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
Amazon DB, Queues and Cloud Front
Practical Amazon
Introduction to Distributed Computing
Fallacies of Distributed Computing
Sources of failure in distributed computing
Large Data sets and the handling issues
Moore Law & relationship to storage, CPU speed, etc.
Introduction to MapReduce
Discussion of Google Paper
Discussion of BigTables, GFS, HDFS
MapReduce - Hadoop Framework
Map Reduce – Hadoop Framework examples
Hadoop and related Projects, HBase, Pig, Mahout, etc.

For further details, you should contact to:
Contact Details
Search and Information Extraction Lab (SIEL)
Language Technologies Research Centre
Block B2, "Vindhya",
International Institute of Information Technology
Gachibowli
Hyderabad - 500 032
India
e-mail: siel {AT} iiit {dot} ac {dot} in
Phone: +91-40-6653 1157/1137
FAX: +91-40-6653 1413