Cloud & Virtualization Essentials Description: Cloud computing isn’t about technology.  It encompasses new business models and new economic models that deliver exceptional value in just about any marketplace or industry.  As a business model, it uses digital commerce to drive both virtual and physical assets. In doing so, business agility and flexibility becomes as simple as a few keystrokes. It also provides the ability to deliver services and goods to any unique customer set, even a set with a population of one. In the economic realm, this approach virtually eliminates the need for business capital while simultaneously ensuring that every business expenditure can have an associated paying customer. Companies leveraging this business revolution include Uber, Amazon Web Services, Pandora and Air BNB. Textbook: Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions (Kevin L. Jackson & Scott Goessling), Packt Publishing (https://www.amazon.com/Architecting-Cloud-Computing-Solutions- Jackson/dp/178847242X)  Goals: Obtain a basic understanding of virtualization and cloud computing. Understand computer virtualization, network virtualization and application virtualization Understand cloud computing key characteristics, service models, deployment models, and implementation options Be familiar with required cloud migration domain transitions and associated cultural change management requirements Be familiar with how to evaluate and select an appropriate cloud service provider Be familiar with how to build a cloud transition business case Objectives Cloud and Virtualization Essentials provides the student an understandable and mission and business applicable understand of cloud computing and the underlying technology services.  It teaches how to balance mission/business model design, economic model design and technology service selection to address an organizational goal and deliver value to their customers. It also indoctrinates students on how to evaluate a cloud service provider and service level agreements, both of which are critical to business or mission model execution.

SharePoint 2016 & Share Point Designer Overview Microsoft SharePoint is an amzing collaborative platform that can be easily configured to provide a more coordinated environment to track and manage a project with your team.  One of the biggest benefits of using SharePoint for project management is that each project site can be set up to match and expose your project management processes. Course Objectives • Improve efficiency • Conserve funding • Higher quality in each project • Higher visibility with each project