You work for a large firm that provides cloud software services to firms around the world. They have asked you to design a new building that will host a server farm to support these services. You are responsible for design both of the new building and the servers that will be chosen and installed. What information and data will you need to gather to optimize the design of the new facility? You need to make a design recommendation, using business case assessment methods.

(a) What information must be included in your design that will be considered unchangeable?

(b) What variables can be included in your design?

(c) Itemize the costs that will need to be accounted for.

(d) What are the tradeoffs that your assessment provide insights about, with respect to design?

(e) What uncertainties might need to be considered?

(f) Which analysis method would you recommend, and why?