Course Information
This course offers a comprehensive overview of digital transformation, emphasizing the crucial role of cloud computing in addressing current IT challenges and meeting organizational objectives. As businesses increasingly adopt digital mindsets, they must innovate rapidly to remain competitive in a digital market. The course explores key emerging technology trends such as mobile, big data analytics, and social media, which drive organizations to optimize and innovate their business models.
Participants will gain essential knowledge on the technologies, processes, and mechanisms required to build a cloud infrastructure. The course adopts an open approach using the Cloud Reference Architecture to explain cloud computing concepts and technologies. These concepts are further illustrated and reinforced with practical examples from DELL EMC products. This cloud essentials course is designed to equip you with the foundational knowledge necessary for understanding and implementing cloud infrastructure in the context of digital transformation.
- Experienced IT Professionals: Individuals who have extensive experience in IT but may not have had exposure to cloud computing.
- IT Professionals in Cloud Roles: Those responsible for architecting and managing cloud infrastructure within their organizations.
- Aspiring Cloud Computing Professionals: Students and professionals looking to pursue a career in cloud computing.
- Certification Seekers: Individuals aiming to obtain the Associate – Cloud Infrastructure and Services Associate (DECA-CIS) certification.
Driving Digital Transformation
- Cloud
- Digital Transformation
- Current business challenges
- IT challenges in supporting business challenges
- Digital business drives IT Transformation
- Digital and IT Transformation adopts Cloud
2 – Cloud Reference Architecture
- Essentials of Cloud characteristics
- Cloud deployment and service models
- Key benefits of Cloud computing
- Components of the Cloud reference architecture
3 – Applications
- Evolution of application platform
- Traditional application challenges
- Need for application transformation
- Modern application characteristics
- Application modernization approach
4 – Cloud Services & Orchestration
- Cloud services and its functions
- Cloud portal
- Cloud interface standards
- Cloud service lifecycle − Service orchestration
5 – Modern Infrastructure
- Key IT infrastructure components
- Virtual Infrastructures – features and its benefits
- Software Defined Infrastructure – feature and its benefits
- Converged and Hyper Converged Infrastructure – features and its benefits
6 – Cloud Security
- Cloud security threats
- Cloud security mechanisms
- Governance, risk, and compliance
7 – Business Continuity
- Cloud service availability
- Fault tolerance mechanisms
- Data protection solutions – backup, replication and archive − Data protection as a service
8 – Cloud Service Management
- Service portfolio management processes
- Service operation management processes
9 – Transforming IT Operations
- Key elements of successful transformation: People, Process, and Technology
