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BallotOnline's IT Budget and Infrastructure Summary

Step 1: Economic Implications Calculation

The focus of this report is to carry out a cost analysis of the BallotOnline infrastructure for the

next 5 years, retaining its existing on-site data centre model and contrasting it with the cost of

switching to a cloud system. IT management was issued a mandate by corporate leadership that

as a percentage of revenue, the IT budget must be decreased over time and not more than 5

percent of revenue must be made up within five years.

The cumulative IT budget of BallotOnline for five years is estimated to be $64.59

million. The table below indicates the year-over-year analysis.

Current

Year (Year

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Total

Revenue

$100.8

million

$110 million

$132 million

$156 million

$186 million

$225 million

10%

Budget

10.8 million

9.9 million

10.56 million

10.92 million

11.16 million

11.25 million

64.59 million

BallotOnline’s IT budget allocations for the current fiscal year:

Budget Item

Allocation for Current Fiscal Year

Capital Expenses

Data Center Hardware Purchases

Hardware capital expenses are depreciated over a

4,000,000.00

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five-year period

Operating Expenses Tied to Capital Expenses

Support and maintenance expenses for data center

hardware purchases

800,000.00

General Operating Expenses (includes data center

colocation fees)

Includes data center colocation fees (space, power,

and cooling), telecom costs, staffing, hosting,

software, etc.

6,000,000.00

As the input variables in the Microsoft Azure TCO calculator to calculate the cost

estimation, existing system specifications for year 0 of the application and database servers plus

the total proposed storage and data transfer needs specified in the table below were used.

Current Year (Year 0)

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Total

Storage (in GB)

50000

66500

83125

103906

370031

Data Transfer (in GB)

50000

66500

83125

103906

370031

Server Specifications

400 application servers

(2 CPUs, 4 cores, 32GB

RAM, Linux OS)

400 database servers (4

CPUs, 8 cores, 64GB

RAM, Linux OS, MySQL

DB)

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Last Name 1 Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Number Date BallotOnline's IT Budget and Infrastructure Summary Step 1: Economic Implications Calculation The focus of this report is to carry out a cost analysis of the BallotOnline infrastructure for the next 5 years, retaining its existing on-site data centre model and contrasting it with the cost of switching to a cloud system. IT management was issued a mandate by corporate leadership that as a percentage of revenue, the IT budget must be decreased over time and not more than 5 percent of revenue must be made up within five years. The cumulative IT budget of BallotOnline for five years is estimated to be $64.59 million. The table below indicates the year-over-year analysis. Revenue % IT Budget Current Year (Year 0) $100.8 million Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Total $110 million $132 million $156 million $186 million $225 million 10% 9% 8% 7% 6% 5% 10.8 million 9.9 million 10.56 million 10.92 million 11.16 million 11.25 million BallotOnline’s IT budget allocations for the current fiscal year: Budget Item Allocation for Current Fiscal Year Capital Expenses 4,000,000.00 Data Center Hardwar ...
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