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CIS/539 CIS539 CIS 539 WEEK 9 DISCUSSION 2 • 5 "Cloud-Based Applications" Please respond to the following: • Imagine that you are a CIO and you are looking for solutions to optimize workforce productivity. Your CEO has reported to you that employees are searching for tools to improve their productivity. Propose an enterprise cloud-based solution that will not cost your CEO a single red cent while optimizing employee productiv ...

Other / Other 15 Jul 2016

CIS 539 Week 6 Discussion 2 "Managing the Cloud" Please respond to the following: • Imagine that you are the CIO of a midsized organization. Analyze the key items that should be included in a Service-Level Agreement (SLA) with your cloud provider. Now, imagine you are the cloud service provider. Determine the terms that you would want to enforce and place in the SLA. • Suppose that you are the CIO of a fairly new, large organi ...

Other / Other 15 Jul 2016

CIS/539 CIS539 CIS 539 Week 3 Discussion 2 "Data Storage in the Cloud" Please respond to the following: • Imagine that you are the CIO of a multinational consumer-based organization that has redundant servers across the globe. Examine three regulatory challenges you may face. Propose the technical or operational approaches that you would use to mitigate these factors. • From the third e-Activity, examine the possible innovations ...

Other / Other 15 Jul 2016

CIS 539 Week 10 Discussion 2 "The Future of the Cloud" Please respond to the following: • From the first e-Activity, discuss the future of the cloud in terms of “free services”. Describe what types of cloud services a new organization with minimal funds can use to create an infrastructure with minimal costs. Provide evidence that supports your answer. • From the second e-Activity, examine two current major technical ...

Other / Other 15 Jul 2016

CIS 539 Week 6 Discussion 1 "Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)" Please respond to the following: • From the e-Activity, analyze the complementary or discrete relationship that cloud computing has with SOA. Examine the SaaS domain as it relates to SOA. • Imagine that you are the CIO of a small, nonprofit organization. Analyze what it means for a Web service to be interoperable, the issues it tries to address, and why it is so ...

Other / Other 15 Jul 2016

CIS 539 Week 1 Discussion 2 "Software as a Service (SaaS)" Please respond to the following: • From the third e-Activity, analyze how a CIO of a large organization would enable SaaS opportunities in their organization while mitigating the obstacles for cloud computing growth. • Analyze service-oriented architecture (SOA) and discuss its evolution since the beginnings of distributed computing concepts. Review how SOA is related to ...

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CIS 539 Week 3 Discussion 1 "Identify as a Service (IaaS)" Please respond to the following: • From the first e-Activity, examine how frameworks like Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) afford improved identity protection in the cloud. Alternatively, assess the security challenges that SAML presents to organizations. • From the second e-Activity, examine the goals of this manifesto as they relate to a federated cloud enviro ...

Other / Other 15 Jul 2016

CIS/539 CIS539 CIS 539 WEEK 10 DISCUSSION 1 "Application Scalability" Please respond to the following: • Elasticity is a key characteristic of the cloud computing model. Create a scenario where a company that offers cloud on-demand solutions would benefit from scaling its resources. Determine the types of metrics you would consider when scaling your cloud-based applications. • Imagine that you work for a company that has a ...

Other / Other 15 Jul 2016

CIS 539 Week 2 Discussion 1 "Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)" Please respond to the following: • Examine how IaaS and PaaS trends in cloud computing will impact enterprise security policies in the short and long term. Support your findings with an example of each service in the cloud computing stack. • From the e-Activity, differentiate between physical, dedicated virtual, and shared virtual se ...

Other / Other 15 Jul 2016

CIS/539 CIS539 CIS 539 WEEK 8 DISCUSSION 2 "Evaluating the Cloud" Please respond to the following: • Imagine that you are the CIO of an organization that has 50 servers across three campuses and a distributed mobile sales workforce of 200 employees and 500 contractors. Determine the economic benefits, in financial terms, of migrating to a cloud-based solution. • With consideration of Moore’s Law, predict how economic ...

Other / Other 15 Jul 2016