...Case Study 3: Carlson Companies Cicely Jenkins Dr. Stephen Huber CIS505: Communication Technologies November 24, 2013 Carlson Companies Carlson Companies, a private company known for its existence in marketing, business, leisure travel, and the hospitality industries, has over 180,000 employees across the United States. Carlson Shared Services, the Information Technology (IT) division, provides services to its internal clients and thus must support a wide range of applications and services. In 2002, the IT division decided to implement a storage area network (SAN) that in turn would meet the six (6) goals established in order to meet the needs of a growing company. In this paper we will take an in depth look at Carlson’s implementation of the SAN by 1) assessing how the Carlson SAN approach would be implemented in today’s environment; 2) comparing the pros and cons of consolidating data on a SAN central data facility versus the dispersed arrangement it replaces; 3) evaluating the issues raised from the Carlson SAN mixture of equipment from a number of vendors and determine the management options for dealing with this type of situation; 4) justifying the reduction of administration and management of storage networking through Carlson’s IP SAN; and 5) assessing how cloud computing could be used by Carlson instead of a SAN. Carlson SAN Approach The Carlson SAN approach in today’s environment can be assessed by the preparation, impact and benefits obtained by Carlson...
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...Should English be the Official Language in the United States Even though other countries have their own official language, not making English the official language in the U.S. will help preserve the different cultures that decide to live in the US. Communities are built based on cultures and the U. S. economy depends on other countries and their people. One of the greatest barriers today in the U.S. is the effectiveness of communication. Whether that communication is written or verbal there is a noticeable gap and is costly both in monetary and people. With many government challenges in the U.S.; it is still fighting the growing question, “should English be the official language of the United States”? With the increased in supporters of making English the official language; there are many supporting facts to substantiate this concern. The influx of the increasing number of Hispanic immigrants in the U.S. has created a need to address this concern. The impact cost both the U.S. and the Hispanic population. Communication Defined Communication is identified differently to different people and systems. To a student in class, it is a means of learning new concepts and skills. To an employee, it is a way of making sure that the job gets done. To those who love us, it is a way of maintaining those relationships. To friends and co-workers, it is the tool that helps us to get along as stated in Communication in The Work Place (Cheesebro, T., O’Connor, L., & Rios, F. (2010)...
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...Critical Thinking Scenario John Doe ETH/316 August 5, 2015 Critical Thinking Scenario Wyoming's Upper Green River Valley is a crucial link to Yellowstone ecosystem. Every year thousands of animals including Antelope, Elk, and Mule deer, pass through the valley on a long migration from the Grand Tetons to their winter grazing pastures. This valley is also home to the rare Sage-Grouse. The valley is also the home to the vital trout habitat of the headwaters of the Colorado River. People have compared the green valley river environment to the environment of the Serengeti, because of the spectacular variety of wildlife. Locals and environmentalist say it is starting to look like Saudi Arabia because of the natural gas drilling sites. So the question is to drill or not to drill this is what we will discuss in this essay. Scientist and other experts claim that there’s large pockets of natural gas in this geological region and is attracting many natural gas companies to drill and extract this natural gas. Nightline reported an article stating “Experts have estimated that there’s roughly 20 trillion cubic feet of gas here. That would supply the entire nation’s natural gas needs for about a year. The same geological formation that creates a natural corridor for wildlife also holds rich deposits of natural gas, miles beneath the surface. This country’s increasing demand for natural gas coupled with new technology is turning this area into a bonanza for the energy industry...
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...TETTEH-BATSA RESEARCH REPORT United States Immigration Immigration is the movement of people from one place to another. Immigration into the United States dates back to the 17th century where a huge percentage of the immigrant population came from the European continent and a few others from the other parts of the world. Others were brought from Africa to work as slaves and ended up staying here after slave trade was abolished. Immigration counts for the majority of the population in America today. The ongoing migration into the United States has seen people coming from different continents around the world to come and settle in the United States. The basic reason of immigration today is due to the fact that the United States has always been looked at as the land of milk and honey, in other wards people come to the United States with the hope of getting a better life and achieving the ultimate “American Dream”. Indeed the United States being a developed country and having one of the best economy has favourable living conditions in comparison to other parts of the world. This was not the basic reason back in the 17thand 18th century where America was more so a dump place for the poor or people trying to escape harsh governments. Immigration into America is still going on to this very day and it has become an issue amongst many who claim that it is impacting the country in a negative way. Is immigration really having a negative impact in the United States? Perhaps Immigration does...
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...Pros and Cons of Globalization Dianna L. James MBA607 November 22, 2014 Jeff Knott, Instructor Abstract Within this writing, we had to research the pros and cons of globalization. However, one needs to know the definition of globalization. Globalization is a process in which we trade with other countries in the stock market or imports/exports of goods and services. However, globalization is not as easy as saying the word, there are many issues that are important to know, one is the laws of any given country. Korea is a good example where they have non-flexible laws that a business that wish to produce their good though their country they need to be abided by in all sense of the word. When visiting the country you need to be well aware of the culture differences and conform to the culture of the country you are visiting. There is one basic question associated with the pros and cons that needs to be answered. “How can firms and governments help to reduce the amount of resistance that might result from its implementation” (From instructions for week one assignment)? Key Words: Trading, Country, Laws, Pros, and Cons, Globalization Pros and Cons of Globalization Within this writing, we had to research the pros and cons of globalization. However, one needs to know the definition of globalization. Globalization is a process in which we trade with other countries in the stock market or imports/exports of goods and services. However, globalization is not as easy...
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...Globalization and movement for labor affect the United States all across the board. People find it hard to pull up and move to various locations around the world but for a better life for themselves and the family they often do so . Families do so for better wages to avoid crime, better education and sometimes are forced to. Immigrants take a chance for a better life by facing, crime, kidnapping and murdering order to get to various places in the United States. Texas border brings in more than half of the immigrants who illegally and legally come into the United States. Jon 13 34-35 gives us direction on how to treat others regardless if they are immigrants her illegally or legally . One status does not dictate this. “34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” People find it hard to pull up the roots that they have held tight to and move to a place they have never been. Although this is hard millions of non-American citizens have made the decision to move. The immigration that had the most impact took place around the eighteen hundreds, this was due to the Great Depression through the hard times in the 1930s. During this time over 60 million people immigrated too different parts of the world but more than half of those immigrants came to the United. States. Globalization and movement of labor has a wide...
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...Smith’s Information Services, Inc. BPO and Cloud Computing Analysis Version 0.1: January 26, 2014 Presented by: Renee Bonds Client approval: Pending Note whether your case study needs to be ready in time for a specific event: Date: 1/26/2014 Event: Executive Monthly Meeting My Company Information Branch | Smith’s Information System | Address | 125 South Main Street | City, state, ZIP Code | Lexington, Massachusetts | Phone number | 339-555-2300 | Fax number | 339-555-2323 | Contact name | Bob Smith | Title | CEO | Phone number | 339-505-2600 | Fax number | 339-505-2501 | E-mail address | bobsmith@smithserv.com | Solution group | Under Investigation | Solution offering | Data Center | Project name or title | Present potential vendor choice | Customer Profile Industry | Marketing | Annual revenue | $2 Billion | Contact name | Renee Bonds | Title | CIO | Phone number | 832-505-2600 | Fax number | 832-505-2501 | E-mail address | reneebonds@hotmail.com | Analysis Analysis prepared for Smith’s Information Services, Inc. Company Profile Smith’s Information Services, Inc. is among the leaders in data collection of consumer information. Headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts – Smith’s has as impeccable record in providing the stabilization of consumer data. * Annual Sales: $2 billion * Primary Line of Business: Sales in Consumer Information * * Management Directory: * Bob...
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...Faced with the effects of globalization on geopolitical, economic, and cultural relations between societies, nurses are becoming front-line providers in countries where access to healthcare services are limited. In countries where infectious, communicable diseases are largely preventable through vaccination, and simple interventions to improve sanitation and safe drinking water, nurses have a unique opportunity fulfill their social responsibility as health promoters by collaborating with political and healthcare leaders to created sustainable solutions to identified needs. In addition to working as health promoters, nurses need competencies that are necessary to provide holistic nursing care and development of global attitude in providing health care to at risk population. Also they should be able to advocate for those in need of a voice. This paper is an annotated bibliography regarding international health in nursing. The reference cited address various information about the role of a nurse and what is global health in nursing. The references cited were obtained from numerous and widely scattered sources such as textbooks, electronic journals, magazines, and peer-reviewed journals. Chatwood, S., Bierregaard, P., & T. Kue, Y. (2012). Global Health-A Circumpolar Perspective. American Journal Of Public Health, 102(7):1246-1249. doi: 10.21.05/AJPH.2011.30058. The authors of this article discussed the fact that global health has largely replaced international health. In...
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...Illegal Immigration Illegal immigration has been a problem for the United States for a long time. This phenomenon is not new because thousands of illegal immigrants have come into US through either the Mexico border, the Pacific Ocean, or through many other ways. Some people have entered the country legally through a visit visa, but then have stayed illegally and are working in various places. Illegal immigration is a double edged sword; in one hand it provide the local economy with cost benefits as the illegal immigrants are not paid so much, while they are more productive. On the other hand, these illegal immigrants do not pay taxes and their employers also do not pay their taxes. There are both pros and cons of illegal immigration and this paper shall take a look at some facts pertinent to illegal immigration in the United States. Every day thousands of illegals stream across the 2,500 miles of border with Mexico. According to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, or INS, the total number of illegals in America from this source increases by 275,000 annually. Already the United States is host to an illegal population of 7 to 12 million, of whom the vast majority are Mexican or Hispanic in origin. These illegal and uninvited guests help themselves to jobs, education, welfare and unemployment compensation. The many whose wages are paid under the table pay little or no taxes. And they are easy prey for unscrupulous employers and politicians (Ted Hayes). The U.S. population...
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...Texas Immigration policy in the United States, namely in Texas, is a great source of controversy amongst lawmakers and the public. An immigrant is a “person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another” (ProQuest). America currently has about 11.5 million illegal immigrants living within its borders (Passel). With this large of a population, immigrants do have an impact on the population and the laws for how to deal with them must be updated. There is a large number of the illegal immigrants working for cash, sharing houses, avoiding taxes, and still sending their children to public schools, and driving on the roads that citizen’s tax money pays for. Currently the law on illegal immigrants is mostly black and white stating that it is a crime to be in the country illegally. However, if the government updates the system to help naturalize them lawfully, states and the immigrants both have a potential to benefit. There are many factors contributing to the immigration of illegal immigrants into Texas. The majority of these immigrants are from Central America through the border shared with Mexico. There are push and pull factors causing them to move here. “The report from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops identifies poverty, paucity of educational opportunities, the urge to join family already in the U.S., and the fear of growing crime as powerful factors propelling immigrants northward” (Millman). In a report from the United Nations, “homicide rates increased...
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...Student’s Name Institution of Learning Using the United States as your example, describe with pertinent examples, the pros and cons of legal and illegal migration The United States is undoubtedly the country with the largest number of immigrants in the world. Following the fast-growing economy of North America, people from all walks of life across the globe have been flowing in the United States in their thousands. Today, the densely populated North America comprises immigrants from different religious and ethnic backgrounds who have come in search of job opportunities and better lives. Both the legal and illegal immigrants play a significant role in shaping the US economy. While immigrants play a contributory role in the overall growth of the American economy, they still pose some detrimental effects upon the national economy. Both the legal and illegal immigrants bring some benefits upon the economic development of the United States. For instance, immigrants help to fill the vacant job positions in the various sectors of the economy. By so doing, the immigrants help to ensure a continued high productivity and an increased gross domestic product. Immigrants have helped to further the income, productivity and employment rates of the United States. Immigrants, especially the PhD and advanced degree holders also help to increase competition in the US economy. Many engineers and productive scientists in the United States are immigrants and play a leading role in global innovation...
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...system in the United States in order to facilitate welfare programmes to reach intended beneficiaries and serve as basis for e-governance in banking, insurance and such other value-added services. There certainly have been crosshairs of argumentation about the inception, feasibility and desirability of the scheme. Talking about pros, Aadhaar will facilitate ‘anytime, anywhere, anyhow’ authentication to its beneficiary. Aadhaar will be a single source of identity verification. Hence, Easy Identification. Secondly, it would facilitate Direct Benefit transfer. This adds to the BJP government’s initiative to work towards creating a social welfare scheme, including accidental, health, senior citizen welfare schemes, through the JAM Trinity. This in-turn would better target the PDS. Thirdly, Duplication at all points can be eliminated. For instance, the Election Commission is planning to link Voter ID to Aadhar doing away with the problem of multiplicity. Also over a crore ghost LPG gas connections were weeded out when it was linked with Aadhaar. Thirdly, this would remove multiplicity of documents and smoothen processes from opening a bank account link all accounts - total money in public view hence aim to curb black money, though not entirely and eventually help in doing away with cash/ digital wallet. In eventuality removal of all documents like Voters ID, PAN, passport, ration card , drivers license etc. Now as with any public policy, there are cons attached to the...
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...and the list goes on. These types of freedoms people throughout the world covet, therefore attempt to enter the United States of America with hopes of sharing these freedoms. Some immigrants come with a legal passage by an ever-growing generous nation jumping through a large number of hoops and legalities, others on illegal terms in large numbers. Now, is it fair for a nation that has been built on such a vase array of different cultures and world travelers to turn away any new comers like to say “we are full?” Is it ok to punish these people for trying to make a better life for themselves and their families? Is it also fair to the tax paying individuals of this great nation to support such a noble cause from blood sweat and tears of our brows? In this debate we will discuss both sides of the argument, pros and cons of illegal immigration in the United States of America, in hopes to bring about a more clear understanding. Illegal immigration is the migration of people from one country into another illegally, violating laws of that country or state. Illegal immigration is universal and present in developed and underdeveloped countries (Palivos, 2010). The negative effects of people migrating to the country illegally is felt in various forums such as employment and over population, and although many laws have been enacted to prevent illegal entry, not every state within a country conforms to the same laws making someone ask the question as to whether the laws are fair but not...
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...CASE STUDY 8 CARLSON COMPANIES STORAGE SOLUTIONS Carlson Companies (www.carlson.com) is one of the largest privately held companies in the United States, with more than 171,000 employees in more than 150 countries. Carlson enterprises include a presence in marketing, business and leisure travel, and hospitality industries. Its Carlson Hotels Worldwide division owns and operates approximately 1,075 hotels located in more than 70 countries. Radisson, Park Plaza, and Country Inn & Suites by Carlson are some of its hotel brands. The hotel loyalty program is named Club Carlson. The Carlson Restaurants Worldwide includes T.G.I. Friday’s and the Pick Up Stix chains. The company registered approximately $38 billion in sales in 2011. Carlson’s Information Technology (IT) division, Carlson Shared Services, acts as a service provider to its internal clients and consequently must support a spectrum of user applications and services. The IT division uses a centralized data processing model to meet business operational requirements. The central computing environment has traditionally included an IBM mainframe and over 50 networked Hewlett-Packard and Sun servers [KRAN04, CLAR02, HIGG02]. The mainframe supports a wide range of applications, including Oracle financial database, e-mail, Microsoft Exchange, Web, PeopleSoft, and a data warehouse application. C8-1 In 2002, the IT division established six goals for assuring that IT services continued to meet the needs...
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...Warming Exist? Team B BCOM275/ Business Communication and Critical Thinking February 13, 2013 Annie Moats Does Global Warming Exist? Planet Earth has been around for over four billion years. During this time it has gone through multiple weather patterns, to say the least. Ice ages and super storms have plagued the earth since the beginning of time. The issue that faces the world today is global warming. There is no doubt that the weather patterns are changing, but the question is if it is caused by humans or is it just in the natural process of the earth. Whether or not global warming exists is a controversial topic. It is easy to choose a side based on one’s opinion, but it goes much deeper than common knowledge. There are pros and cons to each side of the argument and it can be surprising what information is out there that has not even been publicized yet. Making an informed decision requires research into both sides. Also, the arguments surrounding global warming can change depending on which countries are discussing it. For several decades global warming has been debated within the scientific community and with society as a whole. Pro’s for Global Warming To understand global warming and its effect on the planet, the scientific principles need to be explained. The atmosphere is a thin spherical envelope of gases surrounding the earth’s surface. Its inner layer, the troposphere, contains the majority of the air that humans breathe. This consists of nitrogen...
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