Identity as a service or platform as a service model/ Management Information Sys
Discussion Board
Your first task is to post your own Key Assignment Outline to the discussion area so that other students are able to review your plan. Attach your document to the main discussion post, and include any notes you feel are appropriate. The purpose of this assignment is to help improve the quality of the Key Assignment Draft you will complete next week.
Individual Project
Deliverable Length: 12-20 pages (total of all 4 sections of Key Assignment)
Key Assignment Draft
In addition to the Phase 4 assignment, you will also submit the first 4 sections of the Key Assignment as your draft.
Key Assignment Section 4: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Provider Analysis
Your efforts to adopt cloud-based services have progressed very well, and it is time to look at the remaining on-premise solutions that do not fit in a Software as a Service (SaaS), Identity as a Service (IDaaS), or Platform as a Service (PaaS) model. The chief information officer (CIO) would like to retain the ability to maintain the remaining applications in their own infrastructure, without the burden of maintaining the infrastructure.
Research 3 IaaS vendors, and provide an analysis of their potential benefits and savings, with particular attention to the following:
Virtualization
Scaling and storage
Clustering
Key Assignment Draft Submission
On completion of the IaaS analysis, submit the analysis that you have completed so far in the previous phases. This will include Sections 1 to 4 of the Key Assignment, as follows:
Section 1: Cloud Providers and Cost Savings Analysis
Section 2: SaaS and IDaaS Plan
Section 3: SOA and PaaS for Supply Chain
Section 4: IaaS Provider Analysis
