Cloud Architecture

(Music) Welcome and thanks for joining us for this overview for this module on cloud architecture. I'm Sophie Goodwin and I'll be your host for most of this module. You might see somebody else filling in this role depending on the episode, but whoever's in this spot is going to be functioning as a learner advocate for you, asking questions along the way that you might have watching at home. But of course, I'm not alone here. A man who needs no introduction, but I'm going to give him one anyway, Anthony Sequeria is going to be our subject matter expert for this course. Anthony, tell us a little about yourself. Sure. My name is Anthony Sequera, as you heard, and I am going on my third decade of teaching IT related subjects. We're going to be discussing cloud, which is a great thing because I've been teaching a lot of cloud tech over the last, I'd say 15 years or so, as cloud has exploded in popularity. Prior to teaching things like cloud, I am big into networking as well as server-based operating systems and things that go along with that. Okay. Well, it's good to know that we're in good hands learning about cloud architecture. Anthony knows what he's doing. But Anthony, specifically, obviously your knowledge spans a pretty wide scope. What are we going to be learning in this course? Yeah. Cloud architecture is going to be walking you through how things get done in the cloud. So we'll be talking a lot about virtualization. We'll be talking a lot about things like how is storage done in the cloud? How are databases done in the cloud? We'll discuss the as-a-service models and some of the basics of cloud today. But don't fear, we are going to be doing lots of demonstrations and giving you lots of meaningful content when it comes to how you'd actually be operating in today's cloud environment. Speaking as somebody who's still a novice in some areas and maybe intermediate in others when it comes to cloud and cybersecurity and things like that, what level should we be at coming into this course? Is there any prerequisite knowledge we should already have? Yeah. Well, it's interesting. As far as cloud goes, you don't really need previous cloud experience to be just fine with this module. But as far as computing and networking go, it would be great if our audience had an A plus or the equivalent knowledge. You know, we won't stop and define like what a PC is compared to what a router is or a firewall. And this is the kind of information that you can get out of an A plus environment. Remember, if you do have questions, we've got the IT forum where you could ask those questions of us and your peers. So have no fear. I would love for students to take this module even if they are maybe lacking some of the prerequisites because again, they can get their questions answered. That's true because even if you're not familiar with some of that information, it might mean a little bit of bonus work on your end, just kind of getting up to speed, but we can still have a ton of fun in this module. I'm looking forward to it, Anthony. I think that's going to do it for this overview. So thanks for giving us a heads up into what we can expect. And thank you for joining us. We'll see you in the course.