Category: Cloud Training Videos

Virtual Processor Scheduling – VMware & Microsoft

Have you ever wondered how virtual machines get access to the physical processor cores in the server?  Ever wonder why one or two VMs run slow sporadically?  The topic today is Virtual Processor Scheduling.  There are no good books to read on this subject, trust me I’ve looked.  Maybe in 10 ye...

Advantages of Cloud Computing and Calculating TCO

In this cloud tutorial, I am going to cover the advantages of Cloud Computing. I’ll also give a quick and basic example of how to do a TCO calculation for you to decide if you’re going to move to a Cloud solution or not. Scroll down for the video and also text tutorial.   This [&hel...

Cloud IaaS Infrastructure as a Service Tutorial

In this cloud training tutorial, we’re going to cover the cloud service model, IaaS, Infrastructure as a Service. Scroll down for the video and text tutorial.   This is part of my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course fo...

Cloud XaaS Anything as a Service Tutorial

In this cloud training tutorial, I’m going to cover XaaS, Anything as a Service, and it is not included in the NIST’s standard definition of Cloud Computing. Scroll down for the video and text tutorial.   This is part of my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ cou...

Cloud Service Models Tutorial

In this cloud training tutorial, I’m going to cover the different Cloud Service Models. Scroll down for the video and text tutorial. This is part of my ‘Practical Introduction to CloudComputing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course forfree! Cloud Service Models Video ...

Cloud Measured Service Tutorial

In this cloud training tutorial, you’ll learn about the last essential characteristics of Cloud as defined by the NIST, the support of a measured service. Scroll down for the video and text tutorial. This is part of my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here ...

Cloud PaaS Platform as a Service Tutorial

In this cloud training tutorial, I am going to cover one of our Cloud models which is PaaS, Platform as a Service. Scroll down for the video and also text tutorial. This is part of my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enroll in the complete course for free...

Cloud SaaS Software as a Service Tutorial

In this cloud training tutorial, we’re going to cover one of the NIST defined Cloud models – SaaS, Software as a Service. This is going to be a pretty quick tutorial because SaaS is simple and even if you don’t know it, you’re almost certainly a Software as a Service customer...

Cloud Deployment Models – Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud

In this cloud training tutorial, I’m going to cover the four cloud deployment models as defined by NIST. These are the Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Community Cloud, and Hybrid Cloud deployment models. Scroll down for the video and text tutorial. This is part of my ‘Practical Introduction...

Cloud Resource Pooling – Tutorial

This is part of my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! In this cloud training tutorial, we’ll continue with the essential characteristics of cloud as defined by the NIST. Scroll down for the video and also text tu...

Cloud Broad Network Access – Tutorial

This is the sixth tutorial in my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! In this cloud training tutorial, we’ll continue with the essential characteristics of cloud as defined by the NIST. Scroll down for the video a...

Cloud Rapid Elasticity – Tutorial

This is the fifth tutorial in my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! In this cloud training tutorial, we’ll continue with the essential characteristics of cloud as defined by the NIST. Scroll down for the video a...

Cloud On-Demand Self-Service – Tutorial

This is the fourth tutorial in my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! In this cloud training tutorial, we’ll begin taking a look at the essential characteristics of cloud as defined by the NIST. Scroll down for th...

Defining Cloud Computing – Tutorial

This is the third tutorial in my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! We covered our traditional IT deployment models in the last couple of posts in this series: Traditional IT Deployment Models – On Prem and Colo ...

Server Virtualization Simplified – Tutorial

This is the second tutorial in my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! In this second cloud training tutorial, I’m going to talk about server virtualization, using technologies such as VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Re...

Traditional IT Deployment Models – On Prem and Colo

This is the first tutorial in my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! In this first cloud training tutorial, I’m going to talk about what we had before cloud, because to understand how cloud is different, you need ...

What is a Cloud Application?

Thanks to Tony Bourke for the accompanying video: [youtube v = osz-MT3AxqA maxwidth = 100%]   What is a Cloud Application?   I just wrote a fairly long answer to ‘What is a Cloud Application?’ on Quora:   A cloud application is an application that runs on cloud services. ...