The above are the proposal, heres the question:

Amazon Web Services . . Advantages: Strong feature set and being a market leader AWS is very friendly to use. . Strong documentation (official and unofficial) and plenty of support from community. Disadvantages: . More expensive than Azure in terms of operating cost. Third party dependency (dependent on Amazon) means if Amazon has a problem, your business will suffer. Azure Advantages: Extremely competitive value for money as Azure is determined to gain market share over AWS. Enterprise level support from seasoned Microsoft support team. . Disadvantages: . Comparatively less user friendly than AWS because the GUI and setup is a bit complex Lack of integrated backup with a bare-bone virtual hosts. Own data center Own data center Advantages: Data remains on premise within your infrastructure. High level hardware and software customization possible. Disadvantages: High capital and operating cost in setting up and maintenance. Scaling the data center will be complex and expensive as need arises in the future. The option I would choose is Microsoft Azure. Microsoft has been slowly gaining ground in the Cloud Services market with their aggressive acquisition technique. As a result, they provide a better value for money and eager to serve support team. In addition, the feature set of Azure is nearly as good as AWS and their cloud infrastructure provides similar uptimo guarantee as AWS. The only challenge is the integrated backup is lacking with Microsoft but we could implement that using an internal team or consultants Given the three options, on premise data center require massive capital expenditure and will require nearly decade to pay off in terms of value. The cloud options are a better proposition. Between the cloud options Azure is a (slightly) better choice. Question 8: (40 minutes) You have presented your proposal for replacing the QData facility (Question 7) to the CEO and Board of Directors and they have approved it with one major caveat: they required you to ensure that the transition is seamless so that no lost business is incurred. You agree to describe your implementation plan at a special meeting of the Board within 1 week. 8.1) Given the importance of this transition to the company, and in preparation for that meeting, identify and list by business function the appropriate technical and leadership teams that you think are necessary to successfully implement this transition. (hint: the Cisco case study may be a good reference here) [5 points] 8.2) You plan to use Lean Disciplined Agile Development (Scrum) to implement your proposal. In 150 words or less, describe to the Board of Directors how the Scrum process will enable you to accurately track when the project will be completed. [10 points) 8.3) As part of this project, you also recommended, and the Board agreed, that iPremier should deploy an Al driven Extended Detection and Response (XDR) system to significantly reduce the likelihood of a SYN Flood attack succeeding again. In 2 or 3 sentences describe how an XDR system works. Then, in 150 words or less, describe how such an XDR system could prevent SYN Flood attacks (this may require you to do some research on XDR systems). [10 points) Amazon Web Services . . Advantages: Strong feature set and being a market leader AWS is very friendly to use. . Strong documentation (official and unofficial) and plenty of support from community. Disadvantages: . More expensive than Azure in terms of operating cost. Third party dependency (dependent on Amazon) means if Amazon has a problem, your business will suffer. Azure Advantages: Extremely competitive value for money as Azure is determined to gain market share over AWS. Enterprise level support from seasoned Microsoft support team. . Disadvantages: . Comparatively less user friendly than AWS because the GUI and setup is a bit complex Lack of integrated backup with a bare-bone virtual hosts. Own data center Own data center Advantages: Data remains on premise within your infrastructure. High level hardware and software customization possible. Disadvantages: High capital and operating cost in setting up and maintenance. Scaling the data center will be complex and expensive as need arises in the future. The option I would choose is Microsoft Azure. Microsoft has been slowly gaining ground in the Cloud Services market with their aggressive acquisition technique. As a result, they provide a better value for money and eager to serve support team. In addition, the feature set of Azure is nearly as good as AWS and their cloud infrastructure provides similar uptimo guarantee as AWS. The only challenge is the integrated backup is lacking with Microsoft but we could implement that using an internal team or consultants Given the three options, on premise data center require massive capital expenditure and will require nearly decade to pay off in terms of value. The cloud options are a better proposition. Between the cloud options Azure is a (slightly) better choice. Question 8: (40 minutes) You have presented your proposal for replacing the QData facility (Question 7) to the CEO and Board of Directors and they have approved it with one major caveat: they required you to ensure that the transition is seamless so that no lost business is incurred. You agree to describe your implementation plan at a special meeting of the Board within 1 week. 8.1) Given the importance of this transition to the company, and in preparation for that meeting, identify and list by business function the appropriate technical and leadership teams that you think are necessary to successfully implement this transition. (hint: the Cisco case study may be a good reference here) [5 points] 8.2) You plan to use Lean Disciplined Agile Development (Scrum) to implement your proposal. In 150 words or less, describe to the Board of Directors how the Scrum process will enable you to accurately track when the project will be completed. [10 points) 8.3) As part of this project, you also recommended, and the Board agreed, that iPremier should deploy an Al driven Extended Detection and Response (XDR) system to significantly reduce the likelihood of a SYN Flood attack succeeding again. In 2 or 3 sentences describe how an XDR system works. Then, in 150 words or less, describe how such an XDR system could prevent SYN Flood attacks (this may require you to do some research on XDR systems). [10 points)