...IT Project Proposal Background: Our Company is a small regional software developer, specializing in custom applications. In order to cut costs, improve redundancy and many other benefits, 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...
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...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 channel for generic applications. More and more, companies will fulfill their IT requirements simply by applying pay-as-go utility models, infrastructure services with value added platform services or fee-based infrastructure services with value-added application services (Zhang & Zhou, 2009). In essence, users of cloud computing “outsource” their data processing needs to a third-party...
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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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...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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...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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...Writing Project Cover Sheet Capstone Proposal Project Name: Network Infrastructure Upgrade Proposal Student Name: FRANK RIZZO Degree Program: BSIT Mentor Name: REJINA WIDENER Table of Contents Captone Proposal Summary 3 Review of Other Work 6 Rationale and Systems Analysis 8 Goals and Objectives 10 Project Deliverables 12 Project Plan and Timelines 14 References…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….17 Capstone Proposal Summary United Luxury Housing LLC. (Hereinafter referred to as “ULH” or “the company”) prides itself on being one of the fastest growing property management companies in the United States. ULH owns and or manages luxury apartment communities in eight states currently and is projected to double in size over the next three to five years. ULH takes pride in their unique luxury properties that include amenities such as 24 hour maintenance and pool access, top-of-the-line workout facilities, on-site stores with groceries and commonly used household goods, luxurious club houses, movie theaters, and free high-speed internet. ULH experienced most of its growth over the last 18 months and until now had not realized that their outdated network infrastructure could possibly inhibit future growth. ULH is seeking proposals to upgrade their IT infrastructure to be able to better meet existing demand and future growth. This proposal and project will consist of the following five phases: 1. Project initiation ...
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...Migrating to a Standardized ERP System in a Cloud Computing Environment at ABC Corporation Barbara Ferneyhough Managerial Applications of Information Technology – IS535 (ON) Section B DeVry University, Keller Graduate School of Management December 11, 2011 Course Project Example used with permission from student Migrating to a Standardized ERP System in a Cloud Computing Environment at ABC Corporation Proposal Topic This proposal discusses the use of multiple financial systems throughout ABC Corporation (ABC), the impact that this has upon effective corporate operations and proposes a solution. ABC maintains four different ERP systems (BaaN, PeopleSoft, SAP and Deltek) and a financial consolidation system (Hyperion) across all of its divisions leading to increased IT costs as individual systems must be procured, maintained, and manipulated to provide financial data in a format that is meaningful to the home office for reporting and strategic management purposes. Not only is this a potentially inefficient use of technology, the use of a non-standardized system impacts the ability of management to obtain, manipulate and interpret critical data elements for strategic planning purposes and regular performance monitoring. Problem The business problem to be solved is how to improve operational efficiencies, reduce IT costs, and improve insight into the financial management aspects of the company for improved strategic planning and performance monitoring. Approach ...
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...Dublin Institute of Technology ARROW@DIT Dissertations School of Computing 2010-09-01 Cloud Computing:Strategies for Cloud Computing Adoption Faith Shimba Dublin Institute of Technology, faith.shimba@gmail.com Recommended Citation Shimba, F.:Cloud Computing:Strategies for Cloud Computing Adoption. Masters Dissertation. Dublin, Dublin Institute of Technology, 2010. This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Computing at ARROW@DIT. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ARROW@DIT. For more information, please contact yvonne.desmond@dit.ie, arrow.admin@dit.ie. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License School of Computing Dissertations Dublin Institute of Technology Year Cloud Computing:Strategies for Cloud Computing Adoption Faith Shimba Mr. Dublin Institute of Technology, faith.shimba@student.dit.ie This paper is posted at ARROW@DIT. http://arrow.dit.ie/scschcomdis/1 — Use Licence — Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 You are free: • to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work • to make derivative works Under the following conditions: • Attribution. You must give the original author credit. • Non-Commercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. • Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical...
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...recommendations he would employ if he were entering the organization at the senior management level. Specifically, this paper addresses perspectives of the PEO-EIS and his Chief Information Officer in the operation and strategic planning for the organization. The observations and recommendations presented are based primarily upon the perception of the employee but solicitation of other employees and online resources were used in completing this assessment. While the mission of all individual PEO-EIS programs were considered during the assessment, the focus remains on the organization as a whole and recommendations are for improvements to the entire organization and not any individual programs. Keywords: Technology, PEO-EIS, Partnerships, Cloud Computing, Software Factory, Futurist. An Initial Assessment of Program Executive Office – Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS) Operational and Strategic Initiatives Executive Summary Playing the role as arriving Program Executive Officer for Enterprise Information Systems and acting as my own Chief Information Officer the following bullets summarize the recommendations that the organization is asked to consider: * Focus on the current PEO-EIS business objections concentrating on operational requirements during the current situation which limits fiscal resources. * Deliver systems that are easy to operate and cost effective to sustain. * At all organizational levels look for ways to exploit emerging technologies...
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...Richman Company’s, Final Project “Corey Networks” Situation: Operation Richman’s Company You are a networking security intern at Richman. You have asked to submit a proposal to Richman senior management. In the proposal, you must choose to address seven of the following and relate it to the appropriate SSCP domains: Issue one. Based on the premise that Richman has 5,000 employees throughout the main office and several branch offices, you must research solutions and detail the appropriate access controls including policies, standards, and procedures that define who users are, what they can do, which resources they can access, and which operations they can perform on a system. Issue two. Based on the premise that most of the managers have BlackBerry devices for instant communications and all employees are provided cell phones, you must research and detail the cryptography methods to protect organizational information using techniques that ensure its integrity, confidentiality, authenticity, and non-repudiation, and the recovery of encrypted information in its original form. Issue three. Based on the premise that there is a mix of computer running Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X, you must research and devise a plan to thwart malicious code and activity by implementing countermeasures and prevention techniques for dealing with viruses, worms, logic bombs, Trojan horses, and other related forms of intentionally created deviant code. Issue...
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...|RESEARCH PROPOSAL | |On | |CLOUD COMPUTING AND SECUTITY | |Submitted | |for Ph.D. Approval | | | | | |By Mr. MBANZABUGABO Jean Baptiste(BE,MSSE,MCA) | TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT..................................................................................................3 1. INTRODUCTION........................................................................................4 1. GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY.................................................................................................. 5 2. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES .......................................................................5 2. LITERATURE REVIEW ...........................................................................6 3. METHODOLOGY...
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...AIPM Website Membership Engagement Project Plan AIPM Website Membership Engagement Project Plan Approvals Name, Project Role & Position Project Manager Sponsor Senior User Representative CEO & Senior Supplier Document Role Date Signature Recommender Approver Approver Reviewer Document administration Development history Version Date Description Created by 0.1 13/02/2014 First Draft – Dissemination to Project Sponsor for review John Walker 0.2 15/02/2014 Second Draft – Inclusion of Business Case David Bryant 0.3 20/02/2014 Third Draft – Update from Margie’s feedback Lee Edmondson 1.0 24/02/2014 First release, reviewed and approved John Walker Contributors The following people provided information and / or were interviewed while preparing this document: Contributor Position & organisation John Walker Project Manager David Bryant Project Sponsor Nicole Walker AIPM Membership Development Manager Linda Chiarella AIPM National Events Manager Lee Edmondson AIPM Communications Manager Margie O’Tarpey AIPM CEO & Senior Supplier Kayleen Lenzo AIPM Finance and Operations Manager Document distribution history The following describes the distribution history of the document: Version Date Distribution recipients 0.1 13/02/2014 Sponsor 0.2 15/02/2014 Project Manager 0.2 15/02/2014 AIPM CEO & Senior Supplier 0.3 ...
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...New System Proposal Joshua Bishop, Chad Carvalho, Jerome King, Alan Perez, Paul Redkevitch CIS/207 July 22, 2013 Darrel Erickson New System Proposal This team has great pleasure in submitting an enterprise resource planning (capacity services) proposal to the Riordan Company in response to their innovation request for standardizing their business and organizational needs. This proposal includes a full description of the system and its components to include hardware, software, maintenance, and support. Identifies what the system can provide for Riordan, the business requirements that drive the need for the system, information used within the system, information security and ethical concerns pertaining to the system, and the system’s future potential that separates itself from other competitors. This new system proposal will provide Riordan with an increase in business productivity, improved internal and external networking functionalities, and a secured information infrastructure. Additionally, this system proposal addresses Riordan’s innovation request concerning their networking capabilities in the organization’s corporate headquarters. Once this system is fully integrated and operational, the Riordan Company will be far ahead of its competitors with the latest advancements that information technology has to offer. System description and its components Capacity Services (CAPSVC) is a fully automated and virtual service that gives the customer total...
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...MAJoR ITSDI ASSIGNMENT MARRIOTT HOTEL | Group 11 Section –‘X’ | MAJoR ITSDI ASSIGNMENT MARRIOTT HOTEL | Group 11 Section –‘X’ | XAVIER INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT,BHUBANESWAR XAVIER INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT,BHUBANESWAR MAJOR ITSDI ASSIGNMENT MARRIOTT HOTEL Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 Industry Analysis 7 OLC (Organization life cycle): 9 FUNCTIONS 12 APPLICATION INTEGRATION 18 Technological Integration 19 DEPARTMENT SCORECARD 29 CHANGE MANAGEMENT FOR CLOUD STRATEGY 35 Managerial Implication for cloud Strategy (what does the cloud strategy mean for stakeholders) 43 RISK MANAGEMENT 44 CONCLUSION: 45 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Hotel industry is an essential part of tourism. Expansion of hotel industry inevitably depends on the development of tourism which in turn is responsible for around 40-45% forex earning. Recently initiatives have been taken to boost travel and tourism by the Government. Marriott Hotels: Complete brand portfolio is the most important strategy for Marriott. The company operates in five business segments with each segment having several brands targeting different customer bases (luxury, upper moderate, moderate and lower moderate). This gives it high brand recognition and diversified revenue resources. IT in Marriott (Real Scenario): IT solutions are a large way to...
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...NETW600 Telecommunications Capstone Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Project Background 3 Industry 3 Trends and Projections 4 Competition 5 Strength 5 Weakness 5 Opportunity 5 Threats 5 Problem and Definition 6 Problem 1: Infrastructure 6 Problem 1.1 Cabling 6 Problem 1.2 Disaster Recovery 6 Problem 1.3 Equipment Life Cycles 6 Problem 2: Security 7 Problem 3: No Internal VoIP 7 Problem 4: Inability to Switch to Telecommute Employees 7 Project Overview 8 Goals & Objectives 8 Assumptions 9 Identification of Issues & Requirements 10 Findings and Recommendations 14 Budget Requirements 14 Recommended Approach – Telecommute 14 Alternative Approach 1 – High Availability (On-Site) 15 Alternative Approach 2 – Telecommute & Cloud 16 Network Design 17 Recommended Approach – Telecommute 18 Alternative Approaches 19 Alternative Approach 1 – High Availability (On-Site) 19 Alternative Approach 2 – Telecommute & Cloud 20 Implementation Plan 20 Project Plan 21 Milestones and Measurements 21 Implementation Strategy 22 Works Cited 23 Appendix A 24 Recommended Approach – Telecommute 24 Alternative Approach 1 – High Availability (On-Site) 27 Alternative Approach 2 – Telecommute & Cloud 30 Executive Summary Travel Agency, Inc. is a large travel firm that was founded in 1999. They pride themselves on personal relationships along with fast and accurate customer service. Travel Agency,...
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