CLOUD COMPUTING - Stefa

Prof.ssa J. Stefa

Semester II
6 credits


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The course covers the fundamentals of Cloud technology: Storage of large data sets, performance, scalability and reliability. It also covers the organization of popular public cloud platforms like Google and Amazon EC2, and from a practical point of view one of the most widely used frameworks for designing Cloud applications (e.g. MapReduce). Additionally, the course covers the economics of the Cloud, its impact in the ICT society and in the way computing technology is used in the industry.