Transistion to the CLOUD

The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 16.5 percent in 2016 to total $204 billion, up from $175 billion in 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. The highest growth will come from cloud system infrastructure services (infrastructure as a service [IaaS]), which is projected to grow 38.4 percent in 2016. Cloud advertising, the largest segment of the global cloud services market, is expected to grow 13.6 percent in 2016 to reach $90.3 billion (Ref:Gartner.com)

Cloud computing is revolutionizing the software industry and we are witnessing an exponential change in the way we use the IT services.It allows us to buy and sell IT as a service from a web portal.International markets believe in cloud virtualization and in the near future most of all information technology will be in the cloud.The established front runner in this technology are the Amazon web services,Google cloud Platform,Microsoft Azure followed by IBM,Salesforce and Rackspace. Though cloud computing will bring down the  software, hardware and the platform costs it has adverse effects on the career requirements. The concepts that one must be aware of are 

1. Fundamental Cloud Computing Terminology and Concepts 
2. Basics of Virtualization 
3. Understanding Elasticity, Resiliency, On-Demand and Measured Usage 
4. Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
5. Cloud Delivery Models

The following courses are useful to know about the technology

 1. Coursera

 2. edx

 3. Google developers academy
 4. Microsoft research
 5. MIT opencourseware
 6. Alison
 7. Lynda