Research Paper

Week

Weekly Topic

Reading

Assignment Due**

#1

15 Points

Introduction to Cloud Computing including History, Cloud Types, Uses, and Virtualization

Jamsa - Chapter 1

Erl – Section 3.1

Due 01/10/21

Discussion Posting (Due by Sunday 01/10/21).

#2

10 Points

Software as a Service, Roles and Boundaries, Cloud Characteristics

Jamsa – Chapter 2

Erl – Sections 4.1 and 4.2

Due 01/17/21

Assignment

#3

15 Points

Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Data Center Technology

Jamsa – Chapters 3 and 4

Erl – Section5.2

Due 01/24/21

Assignment

#4

15 Points

Identity as a Service, Identity and Access Management, Single Sign On, Cloud Based Security Groups, Hardened Servers

Jamsa - Chapter 5

Erl – Sections 10.5 – 10.8

Due 01/31/21

Assignment

#5

10 Points

Data Storage in the Cloud, Cloud Storage Device Mechanisms

Jamsa – Chapter 6

Erl – Section 7.3

Due 02/07/21

Assignment

#6

15 Points

Collaboration in the Cloud

Jamsa – Chapter 7

Due 02/14/21

Assignment

#7

15 Points

Virtualization

Jamsa – Chapter 8

Erl – Section 5.3

Due 02/17/21

Assignment

600 Points

02/19-02/21/2021

Residency Weekend

None

Practical Connection Assignment, Research Project, Presentation

#8

15 Points

Securing the Cloud

Jamsa – Chapter 9

Erl – Sections 6.1 and 6.4

Due 02/28/21

Assignment

#9  10 Points

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity and the Cloud,

Jamsa – Chapter 10

Due 03/07/21

Assignment

#10

15 Points

Service Oriented Architecture

Jamsa – Chapter 11

Due 03/14/21

Assignment

#11

15 Points

Managing the Cloud, Migrating to the Cloud, SLA Guidelines

Jamsa – Chapters 12 – 13

Erl – Section 16.3

Due 03/21/21

Assignment

#12

10 Points

Mobile Computing, Multi-Device Broker

Jamsa – Chapter 14

ERL – Section 8.9

Due 03/28/21

Assignment

#13

15 Points

Governing the Cloud, Risks and Challenges

Jamsa – Chapter 15

Erl – Section 3.4

Due 04/04/21

Assignment

#14

15 Points

Evaluating the Cloud’s Business Impact and Economics, Designing Cloud-Based Solutions, Coding Cloud Based applications

Jamsa – Chapters 16 - 18

Due 04/11/21

Assignment 

#15

10 Points

Application Scalability, The Future of Cloud Computing

Jamsa – Chapters 19 - 20

Due 04/18/21

Assignment

#16

200 Points

Portfolio Project

For this project, select an organization that has leveraged Cloud Computing technologies in an attempt to improve profitability or to give them a competitive advantage. Research the organization to understand the challenges that they faced and how they intended to use Cloud Computing to overcome their challenges. The paper should include the following sections each called out with a header.

· Company Overview: The section should include the company name, the industry they are in and a general overview of the organization.

· Challenges: Discuss the challenges the organization had that limited their profitability and/or competitiveness and how they planned to leverage Cloud Computing to overcome their challenges.

· Solution: Describe the organization’s Cloud Computing implementation and the benefits they realized from the implementation. What was the result of implementing Cloud Computing? Did they meet their objectives for fall short?

· Conclusion: Summarize the most important ideas from the paper and also make recommendations or how they might have achieved even greater success.

The paper must adhere to APA guidelines including Title and Reference pages. There should be at least three scholarly sources listed on the reference page. Each source should be cited in the body of the paper to give credit where due. Per APA, the paper should use a 12-point Time New Roman font, should be double spaced throughout, and the first sentence of each paragraph should be indented .5 inches. The body of the paper should be 3 – 5 pages in length. The Title and Reference pages do not count towards the page count requirements.

Research

Due 04/21/21

(Short Week)