MIS 367 - Emerging Network Technologies

This course investigates cloud computing models, techniques, and architectures. Cloud computing has evolved as a very important computing model, which enables information, software, and other shared resources to be provisioned over the network as services in an on-demand manner. Students will be exposed to the current practices in cloud computing. Topics may include distributed computing models and technologies, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), virtualization, security and privacy issues, performance and system issues, capacity planning, disaster recovery, Cloud OS, federated clouds, challenges in implementing clouds, data centers, hypervisor CPU and memory equipment, cloud-hosted applications, and other advanced and research topics in cloud computing. Course work will include homework assisgnments, presentations, and a term project that will provide exposure to scientific research in cloud computing.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite Courses: MIS 320
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or equivalent.
Course Repeatablility: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3

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