605 Discussion 5, assig 1 and 2

Assignment week 5 (Subject: Mobile and Cloud Computing)

Over the next 10 weeks you will use what you learn throughout the course to write a project plan for your company.

The assignment is broken into two parts. The first part is due week 5 by Nov 7 Saturday midnight. The second portion of the paper is due week 10 by Dec 12 Saturday midnight.

Paper requirements

· Your paper must be written in APA format

· You are NOT required to write an abstract

· You must include a title page and reference page which do NOT count towards the final page count

· You must cite at least 10 sources

· You cannot use Wikipedia, techopedia, or any other site that can be edited by the general public

· Acceptable sources

· Your textbook

· Any academic journal or peer reviewed paper

· Any commercial or government site (AWS, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, etc.)

· The minimum page count for part 1 is 5 pages. Remember, this does not include the title page or reference page.

· The minimum page count for part 2 is 5 pages. The total document should be at least 10 pages.

Assignment Part 1

Total points possible = 20

Your paper should have the following information:

Title Page (1 point possible)

Company Information (4 points possible)

· The name of the company (can be real of made up). The company should remain the same for part 1 and 2.

· The size of the company

· A brief description of the work the company does

· The current network architecture and location(s) of the company

Business Driver (3 points possible)

· Why are you proposing the business adopt cloud computing?

· What deployment model are you proposing and why? (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc.). Note – you can have multiple models based on your business type.

· What is the main benefit of this business model?

Provider, Capacity, and Cost (11 points possible)

· What cloud provider do you propose using (example: AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure, etc.)

· Identify why you selected this company.

· What is the estimated size and resource requirements needed?

· Identify how you determined this.

· What is the cost?

· Break down the costs (i.e. software, resources, accounts, etc.)

· Will the cloud be public, private, community, or hybrid?

· Describe what this means and why you selected this model.

· What is the future state of the IT infrastructure?

· Do you plan on growing the business?

· Will you need more space? Why?

Reference page (1 point possible)