...To: Professor Somebody From: Student Date: Today's Date Subject: Project Proposal: Migrating to the cloud Summary Our servers are old and out of warranty and to bring them up to the latest trends migrating many of our applications to the cloud would probably benefit both our budget and satisfy the needs of our customers. IT Services wants to transition the current ideology of IT services from a “cost center” to an “insurance center” to the rest of the business. I would rather spend monthly dollars on IT to make sure that we have no problems than spend to react to a problem. Spending to react to a problem is not a good strategy because it usually ends up being much more expensive to fix the problem. What Is my Topic? Migrating our servers and applications to the cloud will help us reduce operating costs and overhead costs in maintenance, power and cooling, and datacenter space in our current environment. Doing this will allow the IT department to align the IT department’s focus with business goals and needs. Doing this will allow IT to change its stigma of being a “cost center” to a “business driver” that supports the goals and ambitions of the business. What Is the Problem Being Investigated? Many of our applications are accessed by employees and customers who are located outside of our headquarters. Our applications often experience downtime due to an aging infrastructure that is currently in place has not met the demands for the increase...
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...Joplin-Lovelace Professor Wei Huang, CIS 348 IT Project Management July 21, 2013 Provide a business analysis and justification for determining if the project is worth completing. Provide an alternative adoption to this migration that can satisfy the ROI. . Develop MOV Project The XXX organization has decided to explore the migrating its current email infrastructure to the cloud. The purpose of this document is to provide a justification for determining if the project is worth completing, and provide an alternative adoption to this migration that can satisfy the ROI. Currently the XXX organization is paying an annual rate of $350,000.00 per year for maintenance and monitoring resources for email services. The annual fee does not include wages for resources, nor does this include the cost hardware and software. Besides the annual savings of $125,000.00 There are other benefits to migrating messaging infrastructure to the cloud such as the following: * Increased Storage * Higher Automation means a reduction in IT personnel * Increased Flexibility The overall cost savings will also all the XXX organization to focus on other projects that will generate revenue, with everything there is always some risk such as the following: * Security and Privacy * Dependency * Knowledge and Integration Alternatives to the Cloud There are other alternatives besides migrating to the cloud, such as purchasing email server software such as Mailtraq. Mailtraq is an alternative...
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...the company is deciding to change its current IT infrastructure to better take advantage of cloud computing. The current infrastructure is setup in a very traditional way. The company co-locates dedicated servers to a datacenter to serve as their backbone, utilizing middleware and specialized servers to suit their needs. This means they must pay for their own equipment, bandwidth and other assorted costs associated with the datacenter. In the office, they also have a traditional setup involving routers, switches and some small-scale servers to accommodate office applications. Proposed change: The Company wants to start taking advantage of cloud computing to cut their down costs and simplify their IT structure. By utilizing services such as Amazon’s EC2 and Google’s Enterprise Apps, they believe this would greatly improve the simplicity and cost structure of current IT infrastructure. Instead of hosting their applications and data on dedicated, fully-owned and co-located servers, the company will instead employ the services of Amazon EC2. This will provide them with a simple cost structure, and redundancy, while at the same time removing the need for full-time IT staff to manage it. In addition, instead of paying for licenses to use Microsoft Office (Word,Excel, Outlook, etc), they will migrate to Google Apps – a cloud based service that will offer a productivity suite over the cloud, along with mail services and many more additional available enterprise applications. Issues...
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...Why Healthcare Must Embrace Cloud Computing Regulatory compliance for the healthcare industry is a hot-button issue. The overriding compliance requirements that this industry faces are dictated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), enacted by Congress in 1996. HIPAA was designed to protect the privacy of patients’ medical records and restrict who has access to them. Regulatory compliance for the healthcare industry is a hot-button issue. The overriding compliance requirements that this industry faces are dictated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), enacted by Congress in 1996. HIPAA was designed to protect the privacy of patients’ medical records and restrict who has access to them. The latest HIPAA standards surrounding the security and privacy of patient data makes many in the healthcare industry understandably cautious about adopting new technologies. In the past, healthcare companies preferred to keep any electronic data concerning business operations and patient care behind a secure firewall. Now, HIPAA omnibus and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) requirements stipulate everyone in the healthcare industry begin migrating patient records and other data to cloud computing. Essentially, by 2015, all medical professionals with access to patient records must utilize electronic medical and health records (EMR and EHR), or face penalties. A recent study by the firm MarketsandMarkets indicates that...
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...Why Healthcare Must Embrace Cloud Computing Regulatory compliance for the healthcare industry is a hot-button issue. The overriding compliance requirements that this industry faces are dictated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), enacted by Congress in 1996. HIPAA was designed to protect the privacy of patients’ medical records and restrict who has access to them. Regulatory compliance for the healthcare industry is a hot-button issue. The overriding compliance requirements that this industry faces are dictated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), enacted by Congress in 1996. HIPAA was designed to protect the privacy of patients’ medical records and restrict who has access to them. The latest HIPAA standards surrounding the security and privacy of patient data makes many in the healthcare industry understandably cautious about adopting new technologies. In the past, healthcare companies preferred to keep any electronic data concerning business operations and patient care behind a secure firewall. Now, HIPAA omnibus and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) requirements stipulate everyone in the healthcare industry begin migrating patient records and other data to cloud computing. Essentially, by 2015, all medical professionals with access to patient records must utilize electronic medical and health records (EMR and EHR), or face penalties. A recent study by the firm MarketsandMarkets indicates that...
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...I. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction Over the years many organizations have invested in massive in-house computing capacities and specialized Information Technology (IT) staff around the world in order to support their primary business processes or to achieve a competitive advantage. According to Porter and Millar IT creates competitive advantage by giving companies new ways to outperform their rivals. To gain competitive advantage over its rivals, a company must either perform these activities at a lower cost or perform them in a way that leads to differentiation and premium price (Porter & Millar, 1999). These days, organizations are looking for IT to operate more efficiently and help to reduce the overall costs. The concept of outsourcing has contributed to this development by transferring entire business functions to an external service provider. A recent phenomenon in the domain of outsourcing is called Cloud Computing. “Clouds are a large pool of easily usable and accessible virtualized resources (such as hardware, development platforms and/or services). These resources can be dynamically re-configured to adjust to a variable load (scale), allowing also for an optimum resource utilization. This pool of resources is typically exploited by a pay-per-use model in which guarantees are offered by the Infrastructure Provider by means of customized SLAs” (Vaquero, 2009). The arrival of the Internet has accelerated the commoditization of IT by providing a perfect delivery...
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...Cloud Computing Charles Watson MIS/535 December 7, 2014 Professor Gordon Table of Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………………….Page 3 Company Background…..…………………………………………………………….Page 3-4 Business Problem……………………………………………………………………...Page 4 High Level Solution…………………………………………………………………...Pages 4-5 Benefits of Solving the Problem………………………………………………………Pages 5-6 Business Technical Approach…………………………………………………………Page 6-7 Business Process Change……………………………………………………………...Pages 7-8 Technology or business practices used to augment the solution………………………Page 8-9 Conclusion and Overall Recommendations…………………………………………...Pages 9-10 High Level Implementation Plan……………………………………………………...Page 10-13 References……………………………………………………………………………..Page 14-15 Cloud Computing Abstract The purpose of this document is to explain why the State of Florida needs to incorporate cloud storage for several reasons; to reduce the cost, easy access to files, enhancement of communication, security and more. Cloud computing is the next generation of storing information, and many major corporations have implemented this as either a back-up solution or as their primary storage and computing network. The State will be outsourcing the development of a cloud based system with the goal of providing a reliable and secure source. Company background The State of Florida is made up of a number of different agencies. This paper will examine the needs...
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...Cloud Based Computing By: Alex Hornberger Introduction Cloud based computing is a new and very misunderstand piece of technology. Businesses moving their IT services to the “Cloud” will cut expenses and increase productivity. In this report I will discuss what cloud based computing is, how it can benefit and business. To better understand what cloud computing is, the key components must be understand first. When referring to the cloud, that is nothing more than the internet. The internet is a logical place hosted on physical hardware. (Ricadela,2007) Cloud computers are multiple PC’s housed on a single piece of hardware. This allows a company to get the most out of their IT investment. Instead of running one single operating system on a piece of hardware, it gives the ability to run multiple logical PC’s on a single piece of hardware simultaneously. This is important due to the amount of money that can be saved by a business, PCs costs any were from $300 dollars to $2000 dollars. To begin to utilizing cloud computing a business has to purchase a mid to high end server which will house all of the virtual machines. Each virtual machine will only use the designated amount of resources, this gives an administrator the ability to assign resources as needed. Challenges There are many challenges facing a business to adopted the Cloud Computing. One challenge is understanding the way it functions and works, most business owners chose not to get involved in how their...
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... IBM CLOUD COMPUTING Cloud Computing is possibly one of the most misunderstood technologies on the market today, and also one of the most useful for small and mid-sized businesses. But all too often the term is used incorrectly, to describe anything from social media to online games Cloud. IBM is hardly alone in facing the economic challenge of cloud computing, in which companies buy computing delivered, remotely, as a service over the Internet. It is fair to examine IBM, First, how IBM is using cloud computing. Second, how IBM is benefiting from using the cloud and third, the challenge that IBM faces with cloud computing. First, to succeed, IBM has to convince corporations that its cloud offerings and its understanding of the customer’s business make it the preferred technology partner for migrating to the cloud. The company made major commitments in new fields — like technology to help customers find insights in today’s flood of digital data, and cloud-style computing in which processing and software is delivered remotely over the Internet. Cloud computing is converting to an opportunity for IBM. IBM cloud includes infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) offered through public, private and hybrid cloud delivery models, in addition to the components that make up those clouds. Building cloud environments for clients such as IBM Cloud Infrastructure, Platform, Solutions, and...
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...(Case Study) 2013 Finance, School of Business 宋蕊廷 201311034009 Modernization of NTUC Income 1. What were the problems faced by Income in this case? How were the problems resolved by the new digital system? Problems: (1) The old HP 3000 mainframe frequently broke down, and backup or reconciliation would be needed. However, If daily backup was not completed, the affected day’s data would be lost and cost months to do reconciliation. (2) The 1980s COBOL programs broke multiple times, halted the systems and caused temporary interruptions, and it took IT team long time(from several weeks to months) to launch new products. (3) Transaction processing for policy underwriting was a batch process and information was not available to agents and advisors in real-time. (4) Various departments did not have up-to-date information and had to pass physical documents among each other. How were the problems resolved: Income switched to the Java base eBao LifeSystem from eBao Technology. The new system seldom broke down, and it enabled the IT team to launch a new product only in a few days by using the table-driven rule-based product-definition module; plus, the real-time hot backup disaster-recovery 1/9 宋蕊廷 201311034009 ASSIGNMENT 1: MANGAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM center helped the company get real-time backup so that they didn’t need to do reconciliation. 2. What types of information systems and business processes were used by Income before migrating to the fully digital system? (1)Manual...
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...inefficiencies negatively impact the Federal Government’s ability to serve the American public. Cloud computing has the potential to play a major part in addressing these inefficiencies and improving government service delivery. Amtrak, one of top client for Lockheed Martin is facing similar challenges to reduce the cost of IT infrastructure maintenance in their data center operations. Lockheed Martin has a unique cloud model which is focused on providing solutions as a service based on a mission focused approach to secure cloud delivery. They have successfully implemented cloud services for many clients. This study specifically focused on implementing the cloud computing strategy and services provided by Lockheed Martin that can significantly help Amtrak to provide highly reliable, innovative services in an efficient manner and at the same time reduce IT operating costs. Interviews were conducted with key business stakeholders at Amtrak and also with some of the IT project team members to learn about the existing data center model set up, data storage, and the hardware and software applications that are currently used. Interviews were also conducted with employees to understand the perception of cloud system infrastructure services and how it can help them. This report concludes that Lockheed Martin is deeply involved in delivery of cloud computing services to his clients and will provide a unique cloud computing framework that can benefit Amtrak. The challenge at Amtrak is that even...
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...BENEFITS OF CLOUD COMPUTING TO BUSINESSES Cloud computing, the most buzzed word in this era offers benefits to all. For both small and large businesses as well cloud computing acts as an asset. It allows them to set up what is essentially a virtual office to give the business organizations the flexibility of connecting to their business anywhere, any time. According to a study conducted by the market research company Vanson Bourne, they found that there were numerous factors driving business organizations towards cloud adoption. The report summarized eleven drivers of cloud adoption along with quantifiable improvements these companies have achieved by deploying cloud services to improve productivity, lower cost, and improve time to market. The eleven drivers or the benefits of cloud computing to businesses are as follows: 1. Fresh Software- Immediate upgrades put new features and functionality into workers’ hands to make them more productive. Further, software enhancements are typically released quite frequently. This is in contrast to home grown or purchased software that might have major new releases only once a year or so and take significant time to roll out. 2. Do more with less-With cloud computing, companies can reduce the size of their own data centers — or eliminate their data center footprint altogether. The reduction of the numbers of servers, the software cost, and the number of staff can significantly reduce IT costs without impacting an organization’s IT capabilities...
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...Final Project IS3110 11/24/2014 Aaron Roberts Tambotka Howard Francis Owagoke Robert Haslett SonoranBudds Consulting CEO: Aaron Roberts Lead: Tambotka Howard Technical professionals: Francis Owagoke, Robert Haslett PROPOSAL for Ricks Automotive Email Migration Plan The following proposal is for the mass email migration of Ricks Automotive and the plan for this migration. We will go over the scope that will be implemented and if there are any questions by the end of the proposal, email the team lead for any questions. Onboard Completion Roadmap: Ricks Automotive Below you’ll find the email migration plan created specifically for your business, Ricks Automotive. Please read through it and let us know if you have any questions. Please Note: The following agreement will not be considered until the Technical Team and an overview of Office 365 Online and Desktop applications has taken place, this will include installation of desktop applications, walkthrough of import/export feature and configuration of a web client. In attendance of this meeting will be the Ricks Automotive Technical Team and the onboarding engineer addressing any initial inquiries and further acquainting the Ricks Automotive Technical Team with Office 365. Note: This migration process will pose a branding issue as the mailboxes created will not be sending from the legacy mailbox name but rather the default alias in your account (e.x. admin@contoso.com would become admin@onmicrosoft.contoso.com) After the initial...
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...Windows vs. Linux Enterprise Distribution Recommendation Introduction to UNIX Linux vs. Windows Enterprise Distribution Recommendation X Industries is a large sized business that is in the midst of a decision regarding wither or not to switch their existing Windows-based IT system over to a less proprietary product, Linux. This is no easy choice to make, considering X Industries is currently running 170+ Windows-based servers of various types. Their staff fulfills company operations on these servers with their 750+ array of desktop and laptop computers – all running Windows XP Professional. Linux may just be a little dog in the Microsoft park, but a company that makes the big switch can expect Linux to yield benefits in cost savings, increased security, and arguably better usability. However, each individual enterprise situation is always different, so a cookie cutter solution of which system to use will never suffice. Rather, the numbers through subjects of cost, market share, programming capabilities, software compatibility and availability, and the ever-important user interface will tell the best choice. Cost The only way to evaluate cost is to get down to the basics, and look at the statistics. The first topic of cost will center solely on the price for Windows operating system software, first for the network side, then the node side. Other topics will focus on the cost of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, which will run on the servers and desktops,...
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...manageability, and adaptability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Services (Amazon S3), and RightScale. Examine the security concerns for cloud-based services and make suggestions to cope with these concerns. Assess possible scalability, reliability, and cost issues associated with cloud computing, and make suggestions to overcome each of these issues. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources. Cloud Computing, an Internet-based computing in which large groups of remote servers are networked so as to allow sharing of data-processing tasks, centralized data storage, and online access to computer services or resources (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cloud+computing). The cloud computing is roughly in Iaas, PaaS, SaaS these 3 categories, but they all have a common principles which are to use pays principle of how much is how many. It is not the same way as traditional building to purchase the largest estimates of the number of users’ hardware resources. Therefore, the cloud computing also has environmental protection significance. However, how effective and full use of maximum resources in the cloud computing is a desirable subject for discussion. The study suggests use of the working scheduling models to improve the resource allocation in the cloud computing, however, the cloud computing and distribution of resources is more...
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