A business seminar discussing the future adoption of technologies to enable businesses highlighted the theme of mobile computing and cloud based services.
Management has identified that in order to provide employees with mobile access a more flexible networking environment needs to be created. Since the organisation uses a typical client server network design, management feels that it would be a simple and reasonable inexpensive process to add extra connection capabilities to realise the mobile design benefits. The second stage would be to move the solution to the appropriate cloud services.
In order to proceeded with the planning and implementations of the solution you as the IT manager have been called in to provide a report on the type of changes that would need to be implemented and further research on the cloud solutions.
During your initial discussion with management you highlighted how your department has only just finished the process of modernise from the existing ad-hoc system to the new client server solution. The new design, due to the processing needs of the applications utilised by the organisation for day to day activities, the employee's workstations had to be quite upscale systems in terms of CPU power, memory size, network speed and storage. The back end systems are used mainly as secure data access and storages. The employees have only just begun to come comfortable with the new system and the their responsibilities under the new system.
The new mobile devices direction from management means that the network design needs a major rethink and redesign especially if portion or all of the services will be moved to the cloud.
As a result of the new direction you have been tasked to provide a report to address the following areas of concern and also provide more information to facilitate a better decision making process.
Note: When we say Mobile devices we mean devices that can be used by employees to access the data and services in a unstructured network environment as well as through other third party networks. Major feature of the mobile devices is wireless network connection and reduced device size and processing power.
• Describe and discuss how the redesigned network needs to operate, the possible network design solutions and why the new design is more suitable for the introduction of mobile devices.
• Consider the overall impact that the introduction of new devices would have on the network functionality and availability. Identify possible problems and issues that the introduction of Mobile computing could have on the network services.
• It is evident that the introduction of the previous upgrade was a major disruption to the employees with having to adjust to security and access restrictions of the new network. Identify training and education that might need to be carried out before the introduction of the new network and mobile devices and any ongoing training that might be required.
• The cloud solutions are not well formulated at the moment due to some misunderstanding of what the term actually means. Research and describe the different type and capabilities of cloud networks.
• Identify and describe which service would be the best fit with the needs of the mobile computing that the organisation is moving towards.
Attachment:- Assignment-2-2013.doc