This week’s topics
Cloud computing
- Storing and working online
- Benefits and risks
What you will be able to do
- 3.1 Identify current emerging technologies (e.g., AI, IoT, Cloud).
Activity
List the cloud services you already use.
Study materials
Further resources
- NIST SP 800-145: The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing · PDF · NIST SP 800-145 (2011), short definition of cloud services; 7 pp. · for registered students
- Foundations of Information Systems, 7.1–7.2: Cloud computing and services · PDF · OpenStax Foundations of Information Systems (2025), 7.1–7.2: cloud benefits, services and risks, pp. 254–266 · for registered students
- Workplace Software and Skills, 1.3: The Cloud and Cloud Computing · PDF · OpenStax Workplace Software and Skills (2023), 1.3 on storing and working online, pp. 43–45 · for registered students
- Above the clouds: a Berkeley view of cloud computing · Open-access article · Armbrust et al. (2009), UC Berkeley EECS (basis of 'A view of cloud computing', CACM 2010). The widely cited plain-English explanation of cloud computing. · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
