Duration
5 days
Overview
This expert-level course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to design cloud-based IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) solutions. Building on the skills acquired in the Virtualized Data Center and Cloud Infrastructure specialist-level course, it focuses on business, organizational, governance, technology, and service management aspects from a design-centric perspective. By utilizing lecture, discussions, case studies, design examples, and a series of interactive problem-solving labs, students will learn to design solutions which transform business operations and virtualized data centers into ITaaS environments. The course is applicable to enterprise, service provider, and existing virtualized data center operations considering ITaaS. This course uses an ‘open’ approach focusing on core concepts, principals, and technologies rather than specific products. To provide context, the course includes EMC specific examples and case studies.
Audience
This course is intended for those responsible to assess, architect, and design ITaaS cloud solutions.
Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills
To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student should have knowledge and skills associated with the following:
- Five or more years of design experience in compute, network, and storage, including the design of virtualized infrastructures in support of key cloud attributes.
- Understanding of services lifecycle, cloud delivery and service models concepts.
- Strongly recommended pre-requisites include the actual certifications or skills equivalent to VCP, CCDA, and EMCDA certifications. To achieve Expert level certification, the specialist level certification (EMCDCA) is a requirement.
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe the IT-as-a-Service business transformational model
- Perform an IT-as-a-Service assessment and propose a service delivery roadmap
- Recommend and design an IT-as-a-Service service delivery model
- Design and defend an IT-as-a-Service solution
Module 1: Transforming to IT-as-a-Service
- Introduction to IT-as-a-Service Model
- Business Transformation
- Organizational Transformation
- Architectural Transformation
Module 2: Discovery and Assessment
- Overview of Discovery and Assessment
- Defining an Assessment Strategy
- Gathering Assessment Data
- Performing Assessment Analysis
Module 3: Planning and Design: Organization and Governance
- Develop an Organization Plan for Transformation to ITaaS
- Develop a Governance Plan for Transformation to ITaaS
Module 4: Planning and Design: Technology
- Introduction to ITaaS Planning and Design
- Design for Broad Network Access
- Design for Resource Pooling
- Design for Rapid Elasticity
- Design for User Portals, including Service Catalog and Orchestration
- Design for Measured Services
Module 5: Planning and Design: Trust and Security
- Cloud Security Threats and Vulnerabilities
- Building Trust in a Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud
- Operational Security
- Authentication Models
- Cloud Operational Technologies
Module 6: Planning and Design: Services Creation and Management
- Service Creation and Management Introduction
- Service Deployment
- Service Creation
- Service Operation and Management
- Service Termination
Module 7: ITaaS TransformationTrends and Futures
- Transformation in Application Development
- Cloud Standardization, API’s, and Inter-cloud Communication
- Design for Failure
- Information Transformation
- Mobile Enablement
In addition to lecture and demonstrations, this course includes labs designed to promote practical experience for the participants.
Labs
Labs reinforce the information taught in the modules. The labs for the course will be conducted via one case study that will build throughout each module. The Labs will include collaborative discussion, work sessions, and de-briefs. The labs will be executed in two parts. Part one of the lab leverages a virtual cloud environment with a specific case study that the students will review and evaluate against each module objectives and exercises. Part two will require having the teams. On the last day of the class the teams will create a final design based on the case study using material from each days lags that will be presented on the final day and defended in the last day to the instructor and the peer group.
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