Winter School on Hybrid Cloud hosted by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore

co-sponsored by IBM Research India

Dates: 9 to 14 January 2020

Academic/Local coordinator: Yogesh Simmhan

Overall theme:
This school will cover topics in the area of hybrid cloud, ranging from the basics of cloud as a distributed system and as a service, to more advanced topics around virtualization, container platforms and application development for hybrid cloud. Students will obtain a deep understanding of the theoretical foundations and get hands-on experience through multiple practices and tutorials.

List of subtopics:

  • Cloud as a distributed system and as a service
  • Virtualization, infrastructure and platform as a service
  • Containers: fundamentals, orchestration and management
  • Serverless architecture, functions as a service
  • Application development on the cloud, DevOps, CI/CD
  • Performance and scalability

List of speakers:

  • Yogesh Simmhan (IISc Bangalore)
  • J Lakshmi (IISc Bangalore)
  • Ashok Ponkumar (IBM Research)
  • Padmanabha Seshadri (IBM Research)
  • Srikanth Tamilselvam (IBM Research)
  • Tejas Dharmecha (IBM Research)
  • Mudit Verma (IBM Research)
  • Senthil Nathan (IBM Research)

Background/prior courses recommended:

  • Operating Systems
  • Programming and Data Structures
  • Databases
  • Software Engineering
  • Computer Networks