OnlineCourse Details
In the Cloud Foundation (HK922) course, you will learn how Cloud technologies are changing today’s IT environments and explain the Public and Private cloud.
Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, you should be able to:
- Describe how IT should change in today’s evolutionary context
- Describe how the Cloud will change today’s IT
- Explain Public and Private of cloud
- Describe the unprecedented sourcing model introduced by the Cloud
- Explain enabling technologies
- Discuss Cloud and (new) Service Level Mgmt
- Discuss how to approach and evaluate a Cloud
- Business Case
- Describe Cloud and Risk Management
- Explain how HP approaches the Cloud
Outline
Module 1: About the Cloud Business Strategy & IT
- Business shaping forces
- IT evolutionary model
- Business Technology landscape
- How ICT will serve the business
- IT Challenges
The Cloud Role
- Optimize vs Innovate
- Cloud Myths and reality
- What Cloud actually is
- Effect of the Cloud on IT
- Cloud architectural principles
- Cloud requirements
Sourcing Model
- Cloud Service Delivery
- (Cloud) User/Provider relationships
- User/Provider points of view
- Service Delivery models
- *aaS definitions, examples and benefits
- Cloud specific vulnerabilities
The Cloud Taxonomy
- Deployment models
- Public Cloud: definitions and implications
- Private Cloud: definitions and implications
- Community Cloud: definitions and implications
- Hybrid Cloud: definitions and implications
- The renewed ICT model: risks vs benefits
- ICT needs: how to try
Enabling Technologies
- CI principles
- Automation
- Transformation of operational processes
- CI example
Module 2: Inside the Cloud
Service Level Management
Service Level Management
- Requirements met by the Cloud
- New Service Governance
- User vs Provider relationships
- ITIL and Cloud
Business Case
- Business case evaluation criteria
- Business outcomes examples
- Business case – exercise
- Impacts on business
- Impacts on ICT
Risk Management
- Cloud risks vs benefits
- Cloud specific vulnerabilities
- HP approach
- HP strategy to the Cloud
- HP Value proposition
- Roadmap to the Cloud
HP Approach
- HP strategy to the Cloud
- HP Value proposition
- Roadmap to the Cloud
Target Audience
- Senior IT Managers
- Decision Makers
- Head of IT Architecture
- Head of Operation Department
- Anyone interest in understanding Cloud solutions
Prerequisites
HP recommends that students have attained the following credentials or levels of experience before taking this course:
- Basic experience and knowledge of IT computing environments.