UNIT –I Systems Modeling, Clustering and Virtualization Distributed System Models and Enabling Technologies, Computer Clusters for Scalable Parallel Computing, Virtual Machines and Virtualization of Clusters and Data Centers.

UNIT – II Foundations: Introduction to Cloud Computing, Migration into a Cloud, Enriching the Integration as a Service‘ Paradigm for the Cloud Era, The Enterprise Cloud Computing Paradigm.

UNIT –III Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) & Platform and Software as a Service (PAAS / SAAS) Virtual machines provisioning and Migration services, On the Management of Virtual machines for Cloud Infrastructures, Enhancing Cloud Computing Environments using a cluster as a Service, Secure Distributed Data Storage in Cloud Computing. Aneka, Comet Cloud, T-Systems, Workflow Engine for Clouds, Understanding Scientific Applications for Cloud Environments.

UNIT –IV Monitoring, Management and Applications: An Architecture for Federated Cloud Computing, SLA Management in Cloud Computing, Performance Prediction for HPC on Clouds, Best Practices in Architecting Cloud Applications in the AWS cloud, Building Content Delivery networks using Clouds, Resource Cloud Mashups.

UNIT – V Mobile Cloud Computing: Definition of Mobile Cloud Computing, Architecture of Mobile Cloud Computing, Benefits of Mobile Cloud Computing, Mobile Cloud Computing Challenges