The course aims at providing the necessary knowledge and skills needed for the design and use of data management systems in cloud computing. After having attended the course, the student will be able to autonomously judge the services provided by cloud frameworks, to design new cloud-based solutions taking into account current ICT standards, when available. At this purpose, the course aims to develop in the student the skill to objectively assess new technologies, analysing the strengths and weaknesses of existing architectures.
The objective is achieved by analyzing basic building block technologies of cloud architectures (e.g., machine virtualisation, memories and networks), innovative data models (e.g., noSQL models) and the new data management paradigms (e.g., MapReduce). Major security and privacy issues are also presented.
These aspects are studied, where possible, taking as reference the architectures of the principal commercial solutions (e.g., Microsoft, Amazon web service, etc.).