Cloud Computing
Winter Term 2025

Course information

A distributed system consists of several independent computers that communicate with each other over a network. Different distributed system architectures exist in the computer science. The most popular architecture is the Client-Server model. But especially in the parallel computing field, exist among others, Cluster Computing and Cloud Computing. In this course, the fundamentals of Cloud Computing and related technologies are discussed. Practical exercises are an important part of this course because they are essential for the understanding of these technologies.

Parts of the slide sets are based on the book Cloud Computing: Web-Based Dynamic IT Services, which was published in 2011 by Springer. ISBN: 978-3-642-20916-1

This course has no written exam! Instead, your grade will depend 100% on your work and the results of the semester project. This semester we will have one overall project theme, each group working on the same project of the theme.

The semester project in the winter term 2025 has the goal to develop a solution in the realm of a research project!

The SKY CONROL Project

The distributed nature of multi-cloud environments offers many benefits for SMEs, but it also brings significant challenges in managing workloads across different CSP platforms. The overview of the costs of the companies’ services is challenging, and there are substantial drawbacks in choosing such architectures. Another critical aspect is the overview and analysis of potential security risks and the governance of assets. SKY CONTROL addresses the challenges SMEs face when using multi-cloud deployments. The following sections present the architecture of SKY CONTROL, along with the desired functionalities needed to fulfill the requirements of SMEs.

Source: Cocos, H.-N., Baun, C. and Kappes, M. (2025). The Evolution of Cloud Computing Towards a Vendor Agnostic Market Place Using the SKY CONTROL Framework. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - CLOSER; ISBN 978-989-758-747-4; ISSN 2184-5042, SciTePress, pages 211-218. DOI: 10.5220/0013361200003950 CLOSER 2025