Virtualization and Cloud Computing are terms widely known but not well understood. Acquiring familiarity with cloud architectures, impact on application system design, details of cloud operational characteristics, and the best practices for integrating clouds with corporate data centers are often a common concern for IT management, CIOs, and cooperate technologists. HyperStratus seminars and focused workshops can clear the fog enveloping these technologies and enable organizations to clearly grasp the potential of these innovations for their future IT initiatives. With expertise in networking, database, application design, and system architecture, HyperStratus can tailor its seminars and workshops to help address your organization's specific needs and achieve your business objectives. Learn more here.

HyperStratus has partnered with Unitek Education to provide three standardized training workshops that help attendees understand the rapidly developing world of cloud computing. The workshops focus on specific aspects of cloud computing characteristics, architectures, and impact on system design. Each workshop progresses incrementally in complexity and detail of technical subjects covered and can be taken individually or in consecutive sequence.

Agenda, dates, locations, and registration information for each workshop in the series is available online at the Unitek website or by calling Unitek at 888-825-6273. If you would like to arrange for a private delivery of the workshop or discuss workshop contents, contact HyperStratus at info@hyperstratus.com or at 650 585 5309.

Attendees to this workshop will learn cloud fundamentals as well as explore how to apply cloud computing to their applications and infrastructures.

Topics covered include:

• Key cloud computing characteristics
• Cloud computing architectures and impact on application design
• Managing cloud infrastructures
• Ensuring data privacy and storage persistence
• Creating a cloud computing action plan

Who Should Attend:

• Senior IT managers assessing the potential for leveraging cloud computing
• System Architects designing systems incorporating cloud computing
• IT operations managers responsible for infrastructure services
• Application developers considering cloud computing options for future projects

Attendees to this workshop will learn the key characteristics of different cloud computing deployment options along with each option's benefits and challenges. Each deployment option requires IT organizations to adjust current working processes along with established technologies; the workshop will review what steps are necessary to move to each cloud deployment option

Topics covered include:

• Key characteristics of private, public, and hybrid clouds
• Important standards affecting cloud computing deployment choices
• Integrating cloud computing into existing infrastructure and processes
• How to decide which cloud deployment option is right for your organization
• Evaluating costs of private versus public cloud deployments

Who Should Attend:

• Senior IT managers evaluating how to move forward with cloud computing
• System architects designing infrastructures incorporating cloud computing
• IT operations managers assessing how to integrate cloud computing into existing infrastructures
• Application developers designing applications for cloud deployment

Attendees to this workshop will learn the general AWS EC2 cloud fundamentals as well as explore how to apply cloud computing to their applications and infrastructures. As a case study, details in porting a typical LAMPP (XAMPP) based application to the cloud will be studied and general cloud issues and best practices will be highlighted.

Topics covered include:

• Cloud computing architectures and impact on application design
• Managing EC2 cloud infrastructures
• Ensuring data privacy, storage persistence, and reliable DBMS backup
• Ensuring robustness and scalability on demand
• Creating a cloud application system development life cycle (SDLC)

Who Should Attend:

• Hands-on IT managers and those assessing the potential for cloud computing in their organization
• System architects designing cloud computing-based systems
• IT operations engineers responsible for infrastructure services
• Application engineers responsible for deploying or managing cloud applications