Cloud System Adoption/Migration/Planning

SCS-2855
Closed
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Instructor
2
Timeline
  • October 15, 2019
    Experience start
  • November 27, 2019
    Experience end
Experience
1/1 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any company type
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Information technology Communications Operations Project management
Skills
project planning business consulting business strategy consulting research
Learner goals and capabilities

Students will work on assessing and differentiating different public and private cloud options for Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service, as well as using a framework for planning and risk management for Software as a Service offerings in the marketplace.

Learners

Learners
Any level
15 learners
Project
20 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 4
Expected outcomes and deliverables

The final project deliverable can include:

  1. A report and/or presentation detailing the company's current IT and Application environment and a recommendation for changes to network and infrastructure
  2. An assessment of a given application or IT workload including a Total Cost of Ownership analysis for 2-3 deployment options for said workload.
  3. A defined Cloud Environment Template that can be used to execute a proof of concept for moving an application to a public cloud on either Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure (e.g. AWS "Landing Zone" definition).
Project timeline
  • October 15, 2019
    Experience start
  • November 27, 2019
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

Project tasks include, but are not limited to:

  1. Provide a Cloud Readiness Assessment for an organization or company, including (as desired): a report and/or presentation detailing the company's current IT and Application environment and a recommendation for changes to network and infrastructure, as well as an assessment of each application and it's suitability for migration to various cloud environments.
  2. Comparative assessment of various cloud and/or on-prem options for an IT project: Provide an assessment of a given application or IT workload including a Total Cost of Ownership analysis for 2-3 deployment options for said workload. This will be provided as a report (with recommendations) and business case and can optionally be also delivered as a presentation for the company.
  3. Define a proof of concept (PoC) environment for a company to test and validate various public cloud options: The team will provide companies with a defined Cloud Environment Template that can be used to execute a proof of concept for moving an application to a public cloud on either Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure. This Template will include detailed specifications for servers and network configuration as well as instructions for automating deployment on the given service and a rough cost estimate for creating the PoC envionment on the service (e.g. AWS "Landing Zone" definition).

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

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