To Cloud or Not To Cloud

To Cloud or Not To Cloud! After your college graduation you are approached by Vlad Kimmelshissel, the CEO of Crunch Financial Management [CFM]. You have been trying to get in to see the CEO for months but nobody has returned your calls. Matthew Crankershank, your public school buddy while golfing with Vlad spoke highly of your management and technical experience. When you finally meet with Vlad he offers you a consulting gig which, if you do a great job on this gig, would lead to a six figure [>$250,000] staff position at CFM. Your task is to provide to Vlad and CFM management a cogent proposal, To Cloud or Not To Cloud! Vlad has had quite a few management members push him to move their program and data files to the cloud. There are others who have stressed caution in such a move with some members totally against the idea. Vlad asked you to prepare an action report. Vlad stated that your response should contain,  An abstract of what you will be discussing  Your description of current state of the art in Cloud computing  The alternatives in detail  Your analysis of the pros and Cons of the alternatives [maybe a SWOT analysis]  Your recommendations to management with supporting arguments  All sources should be cited with footnotes  Bibliography of sources cited ? All submissions are to be computer printed hardcopy conforming to the following format,  14 point Arial  Page numbered [center bottom]  Header on each page [Your name, Paper Title, Date] ? . Abstract The issue of resource sharing and back up of data is something that has become very dominant in the 21st century. The two main advantages of this model are cost effectiveness and the ease in use of the technology. However this technology has some disadvantages but they pros cannot be overlooked over them. Every company whether big or small needs a mode of backing up their data since accidents such as fire APA 1966 words Related Questions: Case Study on NIST and FISMA J-TRADING: full circle outsourcing Short Newsletter Item: Privacy Implications of OPEN Data Memo on the Barrington?s COSO Framework Unit 9 disccussion 1 ? MN501 Cloud Computing Assignments