Discusses various cloud properties from economic view points like utility pricing, on-demand resource scalability. Describes various measures and gives appropriate analytical examples. An assignment based on the mathematical expressions is covered.
Gives an overview of different data storage techniques, database architectures (Parallel vs Relational DB), Cloud file systems (GFS, HDFS). It also describes GFS architecture (read/ write operations, fault tolerance, Big table storage etc.), Dynamo architecture in details.