The tutorial provides a detailed overview of cloud computing models, cloud platforms, application development paradigms, concepts and technologies. It describes the basic foundations needed for developing cloud applications covering compute/storage scaling, data parallelism, virtualization, MapReduce and SaaS. Approaches to address key challenges of a cloud infrastructure, such as scalability, availability, multi-tenancy, security and management are also addressed.

Cloud based computing services has seen an explosion of growth in IOT. With its attractive features and low cost factors, even traditional wireless operators are getting into the act, such as considering and deploying cloud based RAN concepts in an effort to reduce the roll-out costs of mega wireless infrastructure and maximize return of investments to support data and service growth. In addition to the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS models offering by the traditional cloud services, another type of SaaS: Security as a Service is gaining traction to combat threats and vulnerabilities brought to the mobile networks as a result of more and more powerful mobile nodes in the form of smartphones flooding the network and making sophisticated attacks possible anytime and anywhere. We will explore Security as a Service in the cloud and how it can bring value to the market place and to the operators.