Strategic Plan
Executive Summary
Introduction
Overview: (1) what is cloud computing? (2) Types of services, (3) Deployment models. (cited from book)
Business Context of SDC: Lay out the specific business drivers, assumptions and plans that informed the IT strategic plan. (For example, the business is planning to acquire smaller companies so IT's plan is to focus on integration technologies.) (based on information given in handout)
IT Principles: Short statements of purpose that will guide IT decision making and implementation at SDC.
Main body
Analyze 6 cloud providers as following services (online desktop apps): mail, office suite (word, presentation, spreadsheet), collaboration activities (instant message, calendar, scheduling), storage.
Analysis information of areas: price, technical quality (uptime & downtime); based on benchmark results from article, report, survey, etc.
Compare and contrast services of providers each other.
Useful sources for searching providers and services:
http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com/pages/about
https://www.appmatcher.com
http://www.getapp.com/
http://www.cloudbook.net/directories/product-services/cloud-computing-directory
http://cloud-computing.findthebest.com/
http://research.cloudtweaks.com/vendor-directory
http://online-storage-service-review.toptenreviews.com/
Useful source for searching assessment, article, report and survey:
http://cloudtimes.org/2012/04/24/cloudtimes-top-100-cloud-computing-companies/
http://cloudtimes.org/
http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/
http://cio.com
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/
http://www.cloudtweaks.com
Conclusion & Recommendation
Summary of analysis
Give recommendation: propose solution to SDC based on above analysis (critically focus on price and outage), and include the budget within 3 years (should calculate monthly in detail and present with table)