This Short Term Course was sponsored by TEQIP-II. The cloud computing due to its unique characteristics has emerged as promising business concept to one of the fastest growing segment of IT industry. It is an evolutionary form of the Grid computing, utility computing, distributed computing and business computing. It represents a development trends of the IT industry that started with commencement of hardware to software , software to service and distributed services to centralized services,. It also provides to user with the business centric view of technology where applications and services are provided through purchase, rental or even can be developed at the will of the user.