This course will cover advanced concepts and techniques in distributed systems with applications to cloud computing and big data analytics. The underlying principle of Net-Centric Computing (NCC) is a distributed environment where applications and data are downloaded from servers and exchanged with peers across a network on as-needed basis. In many ways, NCC is the enabling technology for a significant percentage of modern enterprise applications. Course material will focus mainly on scalable performance and fault tolerance. The course will combine concepts from distributed computing, cloud computing, database systems, programming languages, and theory by exploring both the foundations and practical applications of distributed storage, cluster computing frameworks, and distributed transaction processing.