Unit I: Introduction - Cloud computing at a glance - Historical developments - Building cloud computing environments. Virtualization: Introduction – Characteristics of virtualized environments – Increased security – Managed execution – Portability- Taxonomy of virtualization techniques – Execution virtualization – Other types of virtualization – Virtualization and cloud computing – Pros and cons of virtualization – Advantages of virtualization – The other side of the coin: disadvantages.

: Cloud Computing Architecture: Introduction - The cloud reference model - Types of clouds - Economics of the cloud - Open challenges. Aneka Platform: Framework overview – Anatomy of the Aneka container – From the ground up: the platform abstraction layer. – Fabric services – Foundation services – Application services. Building Aneka clouds: Infrastructure organization – Logical organization Private cloud deployment mode Public cloud deployment mode, Hybrid cloud deployment mode. Cloud programming and management, Aneka SDK - Management tools.

Unit III: Concurrent Computing: Introducing parallelism for single-machine computation – Programming applications with threads – What is a thread? - Thread APIs – Techniques for parallel computation with threads – Multithreading with Aneka – Introducing the thread programming model – Aneka thread vs. common threads – Programming applications with Aneka threads – Aneka threads application model.

Unit IV: Cloud Platforms in Industry: Amazon web services - Google AppEngine - Microsoft Azure. Cloud Applications: Scientific applications - Healthcare: ECG analysis in the cloud - Biology: protein structure prediction – Biology gene expression data analysis for cancer diagnosis – Geo science: satellite image processing. Business and consumer applications: CRM and ERP – Productivity – Social networking – Media applications – Multiplayer online gaming.

Unit V: Advanced Topics in Cloud Computing: Energy efficiency in clouds: Energy-efficient and green cloud computing architecture - Market-based management of clouds: Market-oriented cloud computing – A reference model for MOCC – Technologies and initiatives supporting MOCC. Federated clouds / Inter Cloud – Characterization and definition – Cloud federation stack – Aspects of interest Technologies for cloud federations. Third-party cloud services: MetaCDN – SpotCloud.