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Assignment
Business Domain
• Select an existing system in any of the following business domains
— Health Care
— Financial
— HR
— Sales
— Distributor
— Exploration and Production
— Oil and Gas
• Select a product from your own employer
Problem Statement
• Identify a product based on-premise and recommend a cloud-based solution.
• You will research three cloud providers and determine one to migrate/transition the identified product to the cloud.
Deliverables
• Business Space
— Description of the business, as a whole
— Mission, Objectives, Strategy, Value/Benefits
— Description of the business problem
• High Level Scope
— Description of the proposed solution & how it addresses the problem
• Technical Space
— Technical Objectives and Goals
• Analysis (refer to next page)
• Recommendations (refer to next page)
Analysis and Recommendation
• At least three cloud providers
— i.e. AWS, Google Cloud Platform, MS Azure, IBM Cloud, among others
• Analysis based on, at least, 7 categories:
— Pricing and Cost
— Security and Compliance
— Architecture
Manageability and Operations
Business Domain
— Location and Market
— User Interface and Administration
— SLAs
Provisioning and Account Set-up
Performance
— Customer Service, Technical Support, Premier Support
— Total Cost of Ownership
• Recommendations
Analysis and Recommendation
Analysis must include, at a minimum, the following:
• For each category you select, a description on how it is designed from each provider and the pros and cons. You will use this information later for your recommendation
Recommendation must include, at a minimum, the following:
• Refer to the lecture slides and to the NIST Cloud Computing
Definition to describe your decisions on the following:
— Cloud Service Model
— Cloud Deployment Model
• Selection of the Cloud Provider:
— A full description of your analysis and the reason and rational of your decision based on the categories
Project Constraints
Formal Paper
- Formal Recommendation
- Minimum 10 pages of content
• Minimum does not include pictures
• Minimum does not include TOC, Title page, etc.
• Double space l2pt
Document Quality Expectations
• Recommendation must summarize your rational on the selection. The selection must be based on your findings from the analysis of the categories.
• For every picture or chart included from any source, you must describe it in the content and specify the reason it is relevant to the analysis/recommendation.
• Use document TOC, for example:
- MS Word-formatted TOC
• Use formal document outline, for example:
- Number the sections
- Font styles
- Number the Pages, use footers and headers, title Page, etc.