Case

Greentek is a software solution company for smartphone and tablet devices. Current headquarter (HQ) locates in Sydney, 30 sale team members and 50 software engineers base in Singapore and Manila respective. The cycle of apps development would start from HQ with ideas and design prototypes. The managers in HQ office will work with coders in Manila to form a full cycle of software development. When an app is ready for trial, Singapore team will test the app's functions and ready for marketing.

Task

You have been assigned the task to re-assess the current network and in-house hosting services; all three offices are connected with the MPLS for the VPN communication between the offices for daily tasks. Also to migrate some of the current in-house hosting services onto cloud-based to leverage apps roll out and cut down in-house maintenance cost over three offices. Your report proposal should explicitly address the following objectives:

1. Cloud delivery and deployment models to be used for Greentek;

2. Explain the impact on HQ, sale and development staff from your proposal;

3. Provide a tabulation consists of cost and features comparison from five major cloud vendors that able to support Xcode and Android Studio development platform environments;

4. Briefly describe cloud service information security features from the services cloud vendors that you proposed.

1. Cloud delivery and deployment models to be used for Greentek; (should keep the question back in your actual report)

• Which type of cloud deployment and delivery models would be best and suitable to the provided case ? why? + in-text ref(s)
• Should focus on the current three office connectivity through VPN/MPLS
• Should read the case provided and current organisation layout to form better arguments

2. Explain the impact on HQ, sale and development staff from your proposal;; (should keep the question back in your actual report)

• What are the impacts on HQ, sale and development staff ONCE the proposal model being implemented? + in-text ref(s) (if any)

o Administrative?
o Network, IT, resources management?
o Human resource
o Search other cases that related to your "selected cloud service model", for instance: security, SLA, jurisdiction of your cloud provider etc..+ in-text ref(s) (if any)

3. Provide a tabulation consists of cost and features comparison from five major cloud vendors that able to support Xcode and Android Studio development platform environments;; (should keep the question back in your actual report)

4. Briefly describe cloud service information security features from the services cloud vendors that you proposed.; (should keep the question back in your actual report)

• Extract security features from your selected services cloud vendors+ in-text ref(s)

Report conclusion (1200 words for all four questions)

References:

APA6 ref style

Note:

1. Report should be submitted in MS Word . Please do not use any other format for your submission.
2. Please check spelling and grammar mistakes in your report as this will be part of the marking rubric.
3. Word limit (1200 words (-/+10%) will exclude cover page, introduction and references.
4. All figures, tables or any other data taken from various sources must be references as per APA 6th edition style referencing.

Rationale

This assessment will cover the following objectives:

• Be able to research and apply suitable cloud service delivery on a required case;
• Be able to identify the infrastructure, platform and service information security risk;
• Be able to measure, indicate and categorise the risk level for cloud service models.