You work for a company that specializes in seasonal specialty foods. The company has 100,000+ customers nationwide who currently place their orders through a web user interface hosted at their headquarters in Omaha, NE and three distribution centers located in San Jose, CA, Omaha, NE, and Charleston, SC.
The database and web servers have fluctuating loads depending on the season. The servers are stressed during peak periods and sit idle during non-peak periods. The CIO has tasked your team with identifying a solution for increasing efficiency in order-processing, while at the same time reducing costs of hardware and software and updating aging and vulnerable operating systems and applications.
Create a 5-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation which communicates the changes and/or best practices that must be incorporated within the IT development function. This development function is critical, since new systems need to be designed for better security than the legacy systems currently used. Include the following:
- Tech refresh plan
- Business goals (e.g., increase productivity, reduce cost)
- Methods for building upon foundational architectures
- Server consolidation
- Economies of scale
- Cloud infrastructure mechanisms
- Maintenance of existing applications
- Videos, audio, photos, diagrams, or graphs as appropriate
- Substantial speaker notes to elaborate on the key points of your plan
- Audio narration within your presentation