Two-Day Seminar: Cloud Computing for Architects


Jason Bloomberg, President of ZapThink, will be delivering this two-day workshop in London on March 15 & 16, 2012, in partnership with IRM UK.

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ZapCourse – Architecting with the Cloud: Strategy & Planning

ZapCourse – Architecting with the Cloud: Strategy & Planning

Online Computer-Based Training Course

Cost:  US $297.00

Most of the information about Cloud Computing today comes from vendors. As a result, it skews toward purchasing software and hardware, and away from making balanced decisions in the enterprise. The Enterprise Architect must counterbalance vendor spin and place Cloud Computing into the proper context: among the many deployment options available, with its own unique advantages and disadvantages. This ZapCourse outlines the primary issues an EA must consider in order to make appropriate decisions about various Cloud-based options, how to put together a Cloud roadmap, and how best to communicate the position the Cloud should take in the greater context of agile Enterprise Architecture. Includes a case study from Conde Nast, publisher of magazines including GQ, Vogue, and Wired.

Course length: 69 minutes of recorded video and slides, self-paced.

Note: if you have already registered for this course, you can return to the login page for our online courses at http://learn.zapthink.com.

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Event Agenda

Architecting with the Cloud: Strategy & Planning

Online, Computer-Based, Self-Paced Course

Course Overview

  • Architecting with the Cloud: Strategy & Planning Course Goals
  • Cloud Computing: Old Wine in New Bottles
  • Essential Cloud Characteristics
  • Cloud Service Models
  • Cloud Deployment Models
  • Managed Hosting vs. Cloud Computing
  • Vendor Spin
  • Oracle’s Shopping List
  • IBM’s Shopping List
  • Cloud Service Lifecycle
  • Cutting Through the Hype
  • Cloud Computing Roadmap
  • EA Cloud Strategy
  • Relationship between Cloud & SOA
  • Cloud Deployment Choices
  • Services as a Service
  • Some Cloud Realities
  • Cloud Governance Challenges
  • Governance-Related Cloud Issues
  • Extending SOA Governance to the Cloud
  • Dealing with Cloud Reliability Example: Amazon EC2
  • Cloud Governance as VM Governance
  • Rogue Clouds
  • More Cloud Governance Pitfalls
  • Cloud Governance: Run Time Considerations
  • Cloud Availability & Failover
  • Cloud Governance Checklist
  • Governance solution should make use of Cloud Services
  • Case Study: reddit Conde Nast
  • Moving to EC2
  • Best Practices
  • Conclusion

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Discussion

2 comments for “ZapCourse – Architecting with the Cloud: Strategy & Planning”

  1. I though that zapthink was vendor independent, yet I see EC2, IBM and Oracle stuff in this online course, yet no Azure ?… What gives ? I don’t get it!

    Posted by Guy Provost | February 16, 2012, 10:53 am
    • Don’t worry, we give Microsoft a hard time as well. But IBM and Oracle are especially egregious, so we really rake them over the coals! Amazon is a bit of a different story, as they are so central to the discussion of Cloud these days.

      Posted by Jason Bloomberg | February 17, 2012, 10:07 am

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