INSY-30500 Cloud Computing

The focus of this course is twofold:

First, to provide a look at information systems from a business and managerial point of view. Topics covered will include strategic and competitive technology opportunities, the organization of information using databases and data warehouses, decision support and emerging trends.

Second, this course will provide a technical glimpse into the world of Information Technology (IT). Topics covered will range from computer hardware and software to IT infrastructures and enterprise security. Also covered is an analysis of cloud computing. In the future, working with large data sets will typically mean sending the computations (programs) to the data, rather than copying the data to the workstations. This reflects the trend in IT of moving computing and data from the desktops to large data centers, where there is on-demand provision of software, hardware and data as a service. This data explosion has promoted the idea of cloud computing.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

INSY 20000