Cloud computing involves computation done over the internet as a service. By 2020, cloud services are projected to be the primary IT consumption source for most individuals and enterprises, with the cloud computing market worth $241 billion. As computing moves to this new paradigm, IT jobs require new skills like virtualization, automation, security, and understanding IT as a service through models like SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Cloud certifications and integrating cloud technologies into curricula can help develop these skills.

1. Cloud computing: trends and skills
Nguyen Trung Lap
Lap.nguyentrung@hoasen.edu.vn
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3. Existing Computing Paradigms
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4. Think of it this way
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5. Cloud computing
• Think of it as Internet Computing
– Computation done over the internet as a service
• Enabled through:
– High Bandwidth and High Speed Internet
– Utility Computing
– Virtualization
– …
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6. Cloud computing
The definition provided by the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST):
“Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient,
on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable
computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage,
applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and
released with minimal management effort or service provider
interaction.”
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7. The characteristics of cloud computing
• On-demand, based on service-level agreements
• Broad network access, resource pooling, rapid
elasticity,
• Strong support for virtualization
• Dynamically composable services
• Strong support for creating 3rd party, value added
services
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8. The 21st century vision of computing
• ‘Computer utilities’
• There is an increasingly perceived vision that
computing will one day be the 5th utility (after
water, electricity, gas, and telephony).
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9. Various paradigms promising to deliver
IT as services
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10. High-level market-oriented Cloud
architecture
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11. Cloud computing trends
• Growing adoption of hybrid cloud services
• Rise in adoption of BYOD policy
• Emergence of cloud service brokerages
• Web 3.0: Where the Cloud Meets Internet
Pervasiveness
• IT and the business coming together
• …
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12. Cloud computing trends
• By 2020, cloud service will be the primary IT
consumption source for 90 percent of
individuals and enterprises.
• In 2020, the cloud computing market is worth
$241 billion.
(http://government-2020.dupress.com/driver/cloud-computing/)
• Cloud Computing Enhances Competitive
Advantages
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13. What IT Professionals Need to Know
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14. Job is more challenging
than just being an
administrator!
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15. Skills Impacts in Cloud Computing
• Deep technical knowledge of the various
collaboration products
• Design skills
• Consulting
• IT-Business aligment
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16. Considerations for Developers
• Developers will have to focus on innovation,
integration, and rapid delivery on business
requirements
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17. Security Implications
• Knowledge around data protection, privacy
standards, and secure message integrity.
• Additional skill sets of value include identity
management, authentication methods, and
auditing.
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18. Understanding IT as a Service
• Three basic services:
– Software as a Service (SAAS) model
• Apps through browser
– Platform as a Service (PAAS) model
• Delivery of a computing platform for custom software
development as a service
– Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) model
• Deliver of computer infrastructure as a service
• XAAS, the list continues to grow…
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19. IaaS
• The important job areas include:
– Provisioning and management
– Monitoring and protecting
– Service management
– Virtualization
– Automation
– Security and compliance
– Performance optimization
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20. Critical Skills by IT Job Role
• Business liaison
– Decision making, move into design and architecture
• Datacenter manager
– Automation skills, good at management applications, scripting, and
performance optimization
• Security specialist
– new security models and technologies, such as data protection
skills, privacy standards, securing message integrity (encryption,
digital signing and malware protection), federated identity
management, authentication methods, and auditing.
• Software architect
– design and build complex distributed systems that exist both outside
and inside an enterprise and the cloud; virtualize system, manage
simultaneous users, isolate stack from physical component failures
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21. Platform as a Service
• New Technologies and Areas to Consider
– Identity and access control
– WCF, Rich internet application (RIA) services,
HTML5,…
– Connects
– Middleware
– Architecting cloud solution
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22. Cloud career path
• There are two types of emerging cloud
computing careers:
– IT pros with specific cloud skills
• such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure
or Google Cloud Platform
– IT admins with cloud architecture know-how.
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23. Making it official with cloud
certifications
• AWS Certification
• Google Cloud Platform CloudAcademy
• Microsoft Azure Certifications
• IBM Certified Solution Advisor -- Cloud
Computing Architecture
• IBM Certified Solution Architect -- Cloud
Computing Infrastructure
• VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
• Certified Cloud Professional (CCP)
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24. Adopting cloud computing in curricula
• Integrate cloud-based technologies into
traditional computer science programs
• Provides courses and even entire programs
that focus on cloud computing
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25. Hoa Sen University
• Both: cloud related technologies -> courses
and cloud computing course
• Build an Educational Cloud for IT Curriculum
through a student-run data center
• Research areas:
– Cloud security
– Internet of thing, IoT security
– SAAS, SOA
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26. Summary
• Cloud computing: Internet computing,
computation done over the internet
• Computing will be the 5th utility (after water,
electricity, gas, and telephony), the market is
worth $241 billion in 2020.
• Job is more challenging than just being an
administrator, IT as a service, close to business
• Cloud skills can be obtained via certifications,
courses in colleges, and by yourself!
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27. Thank you for listening!
Q&A
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28. References
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the 5th utility," Future Generation Computer Systems, 2008.
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for small businesses," The Business Review, Cambridge, 2010.
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