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Two sessions of Cloud Computing will be offered in Chantilly in February. This
course is also open to your government customers for no charge.
Please sign up via the Talent and Learning Center.
TITLE: Cloud Computing: Technical Introduction
DATE: 1st offering: Tuesday, 2 February
2nd offering: Wednesday, 3 February
TIME: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
PLACE: Chantilly, ACC, Room U0025F (TAI Computer Training Lab)
This one-day technical workshop examines the underlying principles of "the
cloud." The class starts with a discussion of the terminology, characteristics,
and fundamental concepts of cloud computing. This will include an overview of
"infrastructure as a service," "platform as a service," and "software as a
service." Participants will then engage in hands-on activities that aim to
demonstrate the difference between two of these service models: infrastructure
as a service and platform as a service. The Amazon AWS cloud platform will be
used for the lab exercises, and detailed instructions are provided for use. As
this is an introductory class, the lab activities will not require knowledge of
Linux or software programming. The workshop will conclude with a frank
discussion about how Aerospace is planning to use cloud services and the issues
involved in applying these services to support our mission domains.
Objectives
* Understand the various types of cloud computing service models
* Gain hands-on experience working with cloud computing services
* Gain insight into how cloud computing can support Aerospace mission
objectives
List of Topics:
* Defining cloud computing- definitions, service and deployment models
* Infrastructure as a service (exercise): working with Amazon EC2, starting
a virtual machine instance and logging into it
* Platform as a service (exercise): use development tools to build and
execute a simple web application in the cloud
* Software as a service: using Google's cloud productivity tools, create a
custom web site for running business apps with force.com
* Aerospace planned use of the cloud and its mission applicability
Target Audience: This course will benefit anyone with an interest in technical
computing.