Infrastructure & Architecture

  • 5 Courses | 2h 46m 7s
  • 19 Books | 71h 35m
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Secure your organization's digital transformation through effective global computing architecture and infrastructure. Equip your organization with the right transformational business model to evolve to the digital and AI mobile economy. Employ effective cloud based mobile computing services to efficiently access communication, data, and operations application services. Reduce IT capital costs. Build successful commercial and enterprise iOS and Android apps with microservice architecture. Gain strategic perspective on network and cyber security. Sustain operations and minimize damage from a cyber-attack on your information computing systems.

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Embracing the Cloud for Efficiency and Agility

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COURSES INCLUDED

Embracing the Cloud for Efficiency and Agility
Cloud computing allows businesses to access mobile, on-demand data and application services without the traditional IT capital costs. Using cloud for business also improves efficiency and flexibility when dealing with customers, suppliers, and partners. This course covers the benefits and deployment options for utilizing cloud-based technologies and big data effectively. You'll explore different deployment models, and how to migrate to and use cloud services. You'll also learn about ways to measure return on an investment in cloud computing and related collaborative tools.
7 videos | 26m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
Network Security Threats and Their Impact
Organizations are subject to increasingly sophisticated network attacks that are occurring more and more frequently. And despite significant improvements in IT security, hackers and attackers are still able to exploit weaknesses in some computer networks - potentially resulting in major data breaches. In this course, you'll learn about the importance of defense in stopping hackers from accessing vital customer or business data. You'll discover the different types of computer network security threats to your organization, how these threats can be prevented, and how they can be detected if one breaches your computer security system.
7 videos | 27m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
Building Better Applications with Microservice Architecture
With the advent of digital innovation, microservice architecture is becoming the default style for building enterprise applications. Designing applications with microservices provides businesses more freedom, flexibility, and resiliency than designing with traditional architecture. Adopting microservice architecture helps businesses build applications that are more scalable and fault tolerant. In this course, you'll learn about microservice, including the elements of microservice architecture and the many advantages it offers application designers. You'll also learn both the disadvantages of traditional monolithic architecture and the potential drawbacks of microservice architecture. And you'll learn about the characteristics of microservice architecture, as well as its benefits and trade-offs.
7 videos | 22m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
Planning an Effective Mobile App Strategy
One key digital innovation associated with increased smartphone usage is the use of mobile apps. People like their mobile apps. It's estimated that mobile device users are using apps 90% of the time their devices are in use. Mobile lets you reach people where they are, and where they want to be, which represents a huge marketing opportunity. That's why if your organization doesn't have a marketing strategy for tapping into the mobile app market, you're already behind. In this course, you'll learn about the importance of mobile marketing and of planning a mobile app strategy. You'll explore the different types of apps available, how to create marketing strategies to target each type, as well as the elements of a mobile app development framework.
7 videos | 23m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
Cloud Value Proposition: Amazon Web Services for Decision Makers
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform that can help businesses grow or scale by offering on-demand compute power, content delivery, storage solutions, and other functionalities. In this course, you will learn about AWS features, including compute, storage, database, networking, analytics, machine learning, and security. Discover AWS benefits, including flexibility, automation, and cost savings. Explore AWS pricing and support models, and compare and contrast AWS with other cloud providers such as Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Explore AWS use cases such as archiving, blockchain, cloud operations, and serverless computing, and discover tools to build on AWS, including C++, Java, .NET, and Python. Lastly, discover how AWS can help build and deliver products using AWS and DevOps practices, and explore how AWS can help secure workloads and applications in the cloud.
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BOOKS INCLUDED

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Infrastructure & Architecture
This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how converging technologies are realigning how organizations operate in an increasingly connected world.
book Duration 30m book Authors By MIT Sloan Management Review

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Make Cybersecurity a Strategic Asset
This article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how leaders can boost resilience and business advantage by elevating cybersecurity from an operational necessity to a source of opportunity.
book Duration 10m book Authors By Manuel Hepfer, Thomas C. Powell

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Getting Smarter About Smart Buildings
In this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how intelligent environments can make the workplace safer and improve collaboration.
book Duration 5m book Authors By Ethan Bernstein

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Managing Crisis Communications in the Cloud Era
This article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how data breaches are inevitable, but planning for a breach can minimize the damage to consumer trust.
book Duration 2m book Authors By Wojtek Dabrowski

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on A Manifesto for the Middle
In this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how our political factions are more extreme today than at any point in our lifetimes. We need a different story about what businesses and government can achieve.
book Duration 4m book Authors By Joseph Burton, R. Edward Freeman

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Develop Your Cyber Resilience Plan
This article from MIT Sloan Management Review recommends a four-part framework that can help create an effective cyber resilience plan to minimize damage and sustain operations through a cyberattack.
book Duration 7m book Authors By Chon Abraham, Ronald R. Sims, Tracy Gregorio

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Moving to the Cloud Corporation: How to Face the Challenges and Harness the Potential of Cloud Computing
Providing an outline of everything that a manager needs to know in order to make strategic decisions about cloud technology, this essential guide provides a deep insight into the progress of the cloud so far and supports the need for a new operating model.
book Duration 4h 50m book Authors By Edgar A. Whitley, Leslie Willcocks, Will Venters

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Business Models for the Social Mobile Cloud: Transform Your Business Using Social Media, Mobile Internet, and Cloud Computing
Written for businesses who want to understand how the coming technology changes will eventually impact them, this book explores how the social mobile cloud and other new technology changes are part of a digital transformation that is moving quicker and cutting more deeply than ever before.
book Duration 3h 54m book Authors By Ted Shelton

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Cloud Computing: A Self-Teaching Introduction
An overview of cloud computing in a self-teaching format, this practical resource contains state-of-the art chapters with tips and insights about cloud computing, its architecture, applications, information on security and privacy, and numerous case studies.
book Duration 3h 1m book Authors By Rajiv Chopra

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Beyond Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Digital Business
An essential resource for business leaders who want to protect their organizations against cyber-attacks, this book arms your company against devastating online security breaches by providing you with the information and guidance you need to avoid catastrophic data compromise.
book Duration 4h 5m book Authors By Alan Marcus, Chris Rezek, Derek O'Halloran, James M. Kaplan, Tucker Bailey

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The Business of Android Apps Development: Making and Marketing Apps that Succeed on Google Play, Amazon App Store and More
Telling today's story on how to make money on Android apps, this up-to-date resource takes you step-by-step through cost-effective marketing, public relations and sales techniques that have proven successful for professional Android app creators and indie shops.
book Duration 3h 19m book Authors By Mark Rollins, Roy Sandberg

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The Business of iOS App Development: For iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches, Third Edition
Written by experienced developers with business backgrounds, this step-by-step guide shows you how to incorporate marketing and business savvy into every aspect of the design and development process, giving your app the best possible chance of succeeding in the App Store.
book Duration 8h 46m book Authors By Dave Wooldridge, Taylor Pierce

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The Art of the App Store: The Business of Apple Development
A unique behind-the-scenes look at what makes an application succeed in the App Store, this guide offers a non-technical look at all aspects of the iPhone application development landscape and gets to the core of what makes a popular-and profitable-application.
book Duration 5h 41m book Authors By Tyson McCann

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Network and Data Security for Non-Engineers
Presenting the tools, establishing persistent presence, and examining the use of sites as testbeds to determine successful variations of software that elude detection, this book explains network and data security by analyzing the Anthem breach step-by-step, and how hackers gain entry, place hidden software, download information, and hide the evidence of their entry.
book Duration 4h 56m book Authors By Frank M. Groom, Kevin Groom, Stephan S. Jones

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Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, 15th Anniversary Edition
Celebrating a decade and a half of smart, straight-forward advice on achieving security throughout computer networks from the leading authority on security, this 15th Anniversary volume exposes the digital world and the realities of our networked society, as well as security technologies and product capabilities, and their limitations.
book Duration 8h 30m book Authors By Bruce Schneier

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Tap: Unlocking the Mobile Economy
Revealing nine forces that shape consumer behavior, this book examines how these forces operate and highlights the true influence mobile wields over shoppers, the behavioral and economic motivations behind that influence, and the lucrative opportunities it represents.
book Duration 4h 31m book Authors By Anindya Ghose

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Inventing the Cloud Century: How Cloudiness Keeps Changing Our Life, Economy and Technology
Following a storytelling approach, moving along the lines of historical evolution, this book combines the three dimensions of technology, society and economy to explore the advent of today's cloud ecosystems as successors to older service ecosystems based on networks.
book Duration 12h 2m book Authors By Marcus Oppitz, Peter Tomsu

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Digital Resilience: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat?
Fascinating and highly readable, this powerful guide lays bare tactics used by hackers, vulnerabilities lurking in networks, and strategies not just for surviving attacks, but thriving even while under assault.
book Duration 4h 7m book Authors By Ray A. Rothrock

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Cyber Security. Simply. Make it Happen.: Leveraging Digitization Through IT Security
With contributions from leading experts from industry, politics and research, this book discusses the status quo and future prospects of corporate cyber security and provides strategic perspective on IT and cyber security for corporations and other businesses.
book Duration 2h 55m book Authors By Ferri Abolhassan (ed)
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