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Week 8 Individual Assignment: Economic arguments for cloud services migration

 

Economic arguments for migrating corporate data centres and computing infrastructure to the cloud have often been quite persuasive. However, for large-scale business ventures and complex organisational scenarios, careful prior analysis, financial modelling and planning is often needed.

 

To prepare for this Assignment:

 

Carry out the following tasks –

 

Select any business sector in the country in which you currently reside, and present a reasonably detailed case, based mainly on economic grounds, for why large organisations in that sector would be better off relocating their IT systems to the cloud, fully or partially. Your write-up should be supported by factual data relevant to the selected business sector/country, and should include estimated cost savings, if any, for cloud migration of their IT systems, either fully or partially.

Are there any business-related, regulatory or other non-economic factors that could significantly affect the economic arguments you have put forward? For at least one of the factors mentioned, explain, and attempt to quantify in some detail, what effect this has on the economic arguments you presented for sub-task 1.

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