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In the next 5 phases, you will be working on sections that will comprise a final Key Assignment. Each week, you will create a section of your Key Assignment in the form of a report. In Phase 4, you will submit a draft of the work that you have completed in the first 4 phases. In Phase 5, you will add 1 more topic to the Key Assignment and submit your final work.
Phase 1 Assignment Details
Key Assignment Section 1: Cloud Providers and Cost Savings Analysis
XYZ Firm is diverse in its interests, with many different divisions. The chief information officer (CIO) is looking to you for assistance in lowering costs and providing new value-added services to the business. He wants to use the Widget division as a pilot for consuming cloud services. Throughout your 5-week contract with the firm, you will build a methodology that defines an approach for consuming cloud services.
The first step is to socialize the business to the notion of cloud computing. There is a lot of fear of the unknown, and it is going to be up to you to help the business take the first step. The CIO wants your assistance in preparing a proposal that he will share with the executive leadership.
Write a report that details the possible cost savings with adopting cloud-based solutions and the benefits of using cloud services. Research at least 2 cloud-based providers, and select 1 the following service lines as the basis of your analysis:
- Human Resources
- Supply Chain
- General Office Function (such as e-mail and collaboration tools)
Your analysis should also give consideration to the following topics for the 2 providers you selected in comparison to an on-premise type of deployment:
- Speed of deployment
- Costs (when possible)
- Service offerings
- Elastic scaling
- Vendor lock-in
Finally, identify the cloud type that might be most appropriate for the service line you selected out of the following:
- Public
- Private
- Community
- Hybrid
You may use the following sample as a guide for any cost analysis you wish to consider. The table represents some sample costs that a firm may incur for hosting an on-premise solution to support a business service. The table contains sample cost allocations for IT hosting an on-premise business service.
Asset Expenditure One-Time Cost Annual Expenses Recurring costs (every 4 years)Hardware 20,000
Software License 5,000
Hardware Maintenance 4,000
Software License 1,000
Administrator Support 10,000
Developer Support 10,000
Facilities Costs 3,000
Software/System Upgrades 4,000
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Cloud Providers and Cost Saving Analysis
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Introduction
A cloud provider is a company that offers cloud components such as infrastructure,
software or platform as a service to business units or individuals. However there are a number of
things one needs to consider when evaluating a cloud provider, and these are: the physical
location of the servers as a factor for sensitive data, reliability for easy access of data and how
secure is the provider and that is why a company like Cloud Security Alliance certify cloud
providers who have met their criteria. The first step XYZ Firm should take is to socialize the
business by first having a vision to grow and expand its services but most of all by trying to
reach to more individuals and more business units.
A Consuming Cloud Services Methodology.
First, analyze and document all costs that are relevant. Second, identify the billable costs
one by one. Third, identify the smallest unit you can offer to the customer as a service. Fourth,
choose your pricing options well for the billable items and define your pricing strategy. Lastly,
deploy and integrate tools that are relevant for collecting billing data and analyze the data into a
billing record.
With adopting cloud-based solutions enables a firm to save on cost no matter its size, by
reducing its capital and operational expenses. This is achievable by lack of infrastructure
premises thus cutting off associated operational cost such as power, administration cost and air
conditioning. This enables you to pay for what you have just used and disengage when not in use
and thus no need to worry about the IT capital you invested (Need, 2006)..
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However, there are many more benefits of using cloud services and they include:
reliability and consistency of the service, simplified management and maintenance capabilities,
allows you to forget about technology and focus on key business activities and objectives and
finally it helps you reduce the time needed to market new applications and services (Leatherman,
Berwick, Iles, Lewin, Davidoff, Nolan, & Bisognano, 2003).
Related to this text I have two cloud-based providers and they are: Amazon Elastic
Computer Cloud and IBM Smart Business Test $ Development cloud. Both cloud-based
providers are public clouds and Infrastructure as a service. This implied that they provisioned
used by the general public.
IBM Cloud and Amazon Elastic Computer cloud speed of deployment and elastic are full
of ups and downs of any magnitude needed to satisfy customer demands. More to it, without
automation benefits, comp...
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