Start with Some Basics
Understand the fundamentals of servers, virtualization, and hypervisors. Identify the core components of a data center. Learn why organizations adopt the cloud and outlines the technical benefits.
We'll cover the following...
- Servers
- Virtualization
- Hypervisors
- What is a data center?
- Reasons to move to the cloud
- Capital expense vs. variable expense:
- Benefit from massive economies of scale:
- Stop guessing about capacity:
- Increase speed and agility:
- Stop spending money on running and maintaining data centers:
- Go global in minutes
- Almost zero upfront infrastructure investment:
- Just-in-time infrastructure:
- More efficient resource utilization:
- Usage-based costing:
- Reduced time to market:
- Technical benefits of cloud computing
Below is a glossary of key terms used throughout this course. It’s placed at the start so you can learn the core terminology before moving on.
Servers
Think of them as computers that are responsible for the storage of data, computation (where your application lives and provides some value), and performing some networking functions. Inside a server, you will find a processor, ...