You work as a network administrator for the Biomedical Sciences Department at a major un...

You work as a network administrator for the Biomedical Sciences Department at a major university. Although researchers, professors, and students in your department depend on the larger university network for essential communications functions, such as e-mail, they depend on the department’s network for tasks related to their projects. For example, they save the data they collect from experiments on the department’s servers. Programs for analyzing this data also run on department servers. The department’s network allows researchers at affiliated institutions to access and add to the data repository as well. Teaching tools, such as simulations and self-testing programs, are delivered to student labs and classrooms throughout the department’s three large buildings. In total, your network services 260 users in the department and 400 users with limited access from WAN sites across the globe. Currently, the network runs 12 applications and maintains 10 physical servers. Your networking staff consists of two network administrators (yourself and a colleague), plus one student helper. You and your colleague have considered adopting a cloud structure to better serve your users. Draw an overview of how services, storage, applications, and access for local and remote users would be structured in a private cloud arrangement. Next make a similar drawing that depicts the services, storage, applications, and access for users in a public cloud arrangement. As you and your networking colleague imagine the possibilities, you realize that having your network’s resources managed elsewhere would change your jobs. Describe how the work that you and your colleague perform now might change if you switched to a public cloud solution. For example, how would the nature of your user support tasks be different? What would change with respect to data backups, software upgrades, and user management?