Objectives

  • Understand the emerging area of “cloud computing” and how it relates to traditional models of computing.
  • To gain competence in
    • ETL approaches for collecting large data collections
    • MapReduce as a programming model for distributed processing of datasets
    • NoSQL databases systems for the management and querying of data collections according to applications requirements
  • To have an experience in building, accessing, and using cloud services by adopting a service oriented approach.