New Delhi, Dec. 18 -- IIT Kharagpur has organised this course while keeping in mind the growing usage of Cloud Computing in every industry. The course introduces the various concepts of the cloud. CC is a scalable services consumption and delivery platform that provides on-demand computing service for a shared pool of resources, namely servers, storage, networking, software, database, applications etc., over the Internet. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources, which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort.

This course will introduce various aspects of cloud computing, including fundamentals, management issues, security challenges and fut...