The course prepares the students for highly-skilled
organizational roles that require interaction with external
vendors of IT infrastructure components and solutions, and the
knowledge and skills that they need for communicating effectively
with professionals whose special focus is on hardware and systems
software technologies and for designing organizational processes
and software solutions that require in-depth understanding of the
IT infrastructure capabilities and limitations.
The course also focuses on technical aspects of computer and
network privacy and security, business continuity, and the role of
the IT infrastructures in regulatory compliance.
The Lab works of the course allows the execution of experiments
related to the implementation, configuration, testing,
administration and management of IT infrastructures, namely of
networks, computing nodes, storage and user nodes, as well as
Services Platforms, Cloud-based infrastructures and
Applications/Tools for Automation, Orchestration, Management and
Administration of those infrastructures.
The mechanisms to be used in the Lab Experiments and
Implementatins are based on "Infrastructure-as-Code" techniques,
that is, the different elements of the infrastructure, their
interconnections, computing nodes and user nodes are
"instantiated" using automation processes, specialized Tools, and
calls to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), allowing the
instantiations to take place, either locally or in private and
public Cloud systems.