Wk 1 - Drotos Engineering: Cloud Solution Proposal [8/19/19] Assignment Content Read the Drotos Engineering Cloud Migration Project Overview. Imagine you are the only IT employee at Drotos Engine

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Drotos Engineering Cloud Migration Project Overview

You are the sole IT employee for Drotos Engineering, a 20-person, privately owned engineering consulting company. The company has a single location. It is growing and is expecting to hire 8 to 10 employees in the next year and use additional engineering consultants on an as-needed basis. The company owner, Drotos Sr. (referred to as Senior) is planning to allow employees to work remotely rather than expand office space.

Senior wants you to review the company’s IT network, hardware, and software capabilities and determine what is needed to meet the following organization goals:

• Employees can access files and software locally and remotely.

• Employee and workload growth is supported by IT systems.

  • The software applications and storage are scalable as employee numbers increase.

  • Employee growth does not negatively affect response time of software applications.

• Maximize IT operational efficiency (IT isn’t getting one of the new hires).

• Systems and client information are secure.

• Business can continue even if the office or network is compromised.

• Network design and processes are documented to enable maintenance and troubleshooting, even in the IT manager’s absence.

The company currently has a private non-cloud IT network.

The application is housed on a single server, with no redundancy and limited network attached storage. The system is behind dual firewalls and does not have remote access or backup functionality.

The company employees use enterprise-wide versions of Microsoft® Office® applications and desktop versions of engineering specialty applications. Many of the specialty licenses are about to expire and the Microsoft® Office® package is several versions old.

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