MSc in Network Management and Cloud Computing

Middlesex University - Dubai Campus

This applied course will give students an in-depth understanding of network management, providing them with a systematic understanding of the concepts and standards for network management, network management protocols and network management tools. The course looks at virtualisation and cloud computing, exploring and understanding modern data centres, virtualisation, distributed storage, MapReduce, NoSQL, platform services, web services and caching. Students will study online security risks, the steps needed to ensure that data is transmitted and stored securely and measures that can be taken not only to prevent breaches but to minimise damage if they do occur. The MSc programme will provide you with: An awareness and understanding of the increasing values that information management provides to the business objectives of all organisations, The ability to involve both the management and the user in the process of awareness, decision and implementation of a computer network, The ability to prepare a project budget and implementation strategy appropriate for the management of a major IT project, The ability to evaluate the technical organisational and economic aspects of developments as new opportunities for business process redesign and/or expansion.