Cloud Service Manager

Description

In an increasingly interconnected and complex IT environment, IT management is under pressure to deliver more agile IT services and adapt to change. Organizations are adopting strategies that include cloud computing to meet these challenges and offer repeatable, flexible and scalable services. Service Management professionals are challenged to help organizations optimally ensure measurable service delivery and management in cloud environments. The Cloud Service Design, Deployment and Run course enables Senior (ITIL) Service Managers to design and deliver cloud services. This training is delivered as a 3-day classroom or virtual classroom program and provides a hands-on, practical approach to understanding how cloud impacts operational processes, and how to adapt these processes to deliver better services. The course materials include comprehensive reference materials that help to continue participants’ educational experience post the course. The course prepares candidates for the Professional Cloud Service Manager (PCSM) Exam provided by the Cloud Credential Council. The PCSM is endorsed, recognized and/or supported by several key technology vendors and standards bodies. The content for this course, as well as the PCSM certification is based on the cloud standards developed by NIST. Certification (PCA).



Objectives

At the end of this course, the participant will gain competencies in and be able to: • Compare Suppliers, Brokers and Carrier Management • Design Cloud Service Strategy • Deconstruct Federated Cloud Service Desk • Comprehend Cloud Asset Transition Management • Apply Cloud Ecosystem Management • Outline Service Management in different Cloud Scenarios • Differentiate Cloud Tiers and analyze Service Management Availability • Illustrate Distributed and Federated SLA • Show Cost of Quality, Acquisition, Transition and Operation in Cloud • Spot Cloud Market Operations (IaaS) • Analyze key issues for managing cloud platform services • Analyze stages in effective capacity management across platforms • Outline Platform Capacity Management • Illustrate role of SaaS Service Manager • Construct different on-line sourcing environment options: directories, catalogs, apps stores, marketplaces, crowd sourcing scenarios • Distinguishes the key service management factors involved in marketplace and catalog provision • Analyze the key license management issues in a variety of given scenarios, including on-premise and off-premise models.

Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites; however, it is recommended that participants have achieved the Cloud Technology Associate certification (or its equivalent) from the Cloud Credential Council (and that participants are conversant with Cloud concepts and vocabulary). Participants further benefit from a strong background in IT service management, and preferably are ITIL Expert, or have completed one or multiple ITIL intermediate certifications.

Outline

Day 1: • Suppliers, Brokers and Carrier Management • Cloud Service Strategy • Federated Cloud Service Desk • Cloud Asset Transition Management • Cloud Ecosystem Management • Service Management in different Cloud Scenarios • Cloud Tiers and Service Management Availability • Distributed and Federated SLA Day 2: • Cost of Quality, Acquisition, Transition and Operation in Cloud • IaaS Service Manager • IaaS: Deployment Automation and Elastic Sizing of Environments • IaaS: Cloud Infrastructure Service Benchmarking • IaaS: VM Deployment and Maintenance Life Cycle • Spot Cloud Market Operations (IaaS) • PaaS Service Manager Day 3: • Managed Cloud Platform • Platform Capacity Management • SaaS Service Manager • SaaS: Cloud service catalogs and application marketplaces (SaaS) • End to End Service Management (SaaS) • Service License Management • Certification Exam Preparation

Cancellations:

Standard and Professional Desktop Application & Professional Development classes may be cancelled or rescheduled by the client at least four (4) business days in advance without penalty. A full credit (no refunds) will be applied to future training on all cancelled classes that meet the above-stated criteria. A cancellation fee equal to the course fee will be incurred if a student provides less than 4 days’ notice for any Standard or Professional Desktop Applications, or Professional Development Skills class cancellations. Technical courses or Private classes may be cancelled or rescheduled (no refunds) greater than two weeks in advance without charge. The client is responsible for 50% of the class fee if a technical or private class is canceled or rescheduled within two weeks of the class date, and full price if the course is canceled or rescheduled within one week of the class date.