Within Software Engineering Ian Sommerville’s work is well known (and his text book a staple). As such his views on how to teach Cloud within a software engineering course are useful. The following paper outlines his views and, though it is rather lacking in detail, discusses the topics and perspectives he thinks are important, namely:

• Map-reduce paradigm for independent computation (Hadoop)
• Schema-free databases and their uses
• Service-oriented computing
• Multi-tenancy
• Security and Compliance
• Design for resilience

Read his paper at:

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1209/1209.0948.pdf