You are the IT director for XYZ Manufacturing. Your company is a B2B(business-to-business) organization that supplies auto parts to GeneralMotors. There are 200 employees at XYZ Manufacturing with a headquartersin Detroit, Michigan, and field offices in Omaha, Nebraska; Austin,Texas; and Orlando, Florida. There are over 10,000 items in theinventory for XYZ Manufacturing and you receive raw material (i.e.steel, plastic, wiring, etc.) from China.
XYZ Manufacturing has been struggling for years with inadequatecomputer resources to track inventory and handle user requests frominternal management, orders and invoices from General Motors, orders andinvoices from your suppliers, and management reports. There is clearlyan inability to store and retrieve complex “big data,” and recentlythere have been frequent security breaches. Your CIO is extremelyfrustrated with this situation and is looking for an alternativeapproach to providing IT services. She has asked you for input on thisinvestigation.
Write a paper that describes the advantages and disadvantages thatcloud computing offers to your organization. Include a sensible,detailed strategy to migrate to cloud computing, addressing the issuesof performance, scalability, and economic factors.
APA, 6 pages (double spaced), 5 references
