Question

You are consulting for a medium size business that has antiquated hardware. The big question is whether they should invest in all new hardware (three to six servers depending on how many services they want to install on a single server) or to pay for a cloud hosting service to host many of the company’s servers.

The CIO is very much in favor of virtualizing the servers in the cloud. She sites cloud computing ability to grow or shrink capacity as the company needs it, also called ___________. She also notes there will be ______ upfront cost. The network engineer is very much against virtualization to the cloud. He notes the _______ costs, and that the company will not own and thing despite those costs. He also has _______ concerns, with third parties handling the company’s data. He also warns of hidden costs as the company will need to _____________ and _____________.

You are, of course, stuck in the middle of these two as they argue, and you have been hired to decide the future path of this company. You have had independent, confidential, discussions with the owner and president of the company. She plans on selling the company soon, and the buyer she is talking to will prefer to invest hardware and is concerned about man in the middle attacks. Because of this you recommend _____________.

1. cloud optimized
2. pay for increased bandwidth to access these cloud services
3. less
4. ownership and backup
5. upfront
6. pay for a proxy and VPN service to securely access the https and ssh server
7. security and regulatory
8. ‘dynamic growth’
1. recurring
10. more
11. still buy, configure, and maintain a server for DNS and DHCP services
12. ‘elasticity’
13. Deploying as many services as possible in the cloud
14. Buying, owning, and possessing all servers so if she needs to sell the company in the future she can get her money back on the hardware.
15. pay for a physical firewall to protect the cloud servers

Answer 1

Answers:
1. Cloud optimized.
2. pay for increased bandwidth to access these cloud services.
3. ownership and backup.
4. security and regulatory.
5. pay for a proxy and VPN service to securely access the https and ssh server.
6. still buy, configure, and maintain a server for DNS and DHCP services.
7. Buying, owning, and possessing all servers so if she needs to sell the company in the future she can get her money back on the hardware.