Case Study: Cloud Delivery Models
Lab – Cloud Delivery Models
Read the three scenarios below
In each case, indicate which Could Delivery model would best fit the situation described.
Include a brief description explaining your answer
Scenario #1
XYZ is a large real estate firm. Their core competence is their understanding of the real estate market, and their understanding of their customers and the customer needs. Their most critical tools are their CRM and email servers. They are growing, and so is their customer list and their
IT and marketing costs are growing at an alarming rate. They currently use managed services to run their CRM, email, etc software but they have had to deal with significant delays as each growth spurt is bogged down by the time and cost it takes to provision new servers, install the software, test it and bring it online. Which cloud delivery model would be best suited for them?
IaaS / PaaS / SaaS
--> SaaS is the best fit for scenario #1. XYZ uses managed services to run their CRM, email etc. SaaS has many advantages like reducing IT support cost by outsourcing hardware and software maintenance and support to SaaS provider. It also reduces the time to install the software and configure the software which could lead to problems during software deployment. It also has advantages over scalability and integration compared to traditional models, users do not have to buy another server or software.
Scenario #2
ABC is a mid-size animation company that has historically worked on some of the major animation movies in the last few years. Their core competence is their animation engineers, and their very talented IT staff that manages their server farms and develops new versions of their custom animation software. When they are working on a particular animation sequence, their typical development cycle involves large spikes in computing and storage usage, as they render each section and each version. Over the years, as animations have become more sophisticated, these spikes
Read the three scenarios below
In each case, indicate which Could Delivery model would best fit the situation described.
Include a brief description explaining your answer
Scenario #1
XYZ is a large real estate firm. Their core competence is their understanding of the real estate market, and their understanding of their customers and the customer needs. Their most critical tools are their CRM and email servers. They are growing, and so is their customer list and their
IT and marketing costs are growing at an alarming rate. They currently use managed services to run their CRM, email, etc software but they have had to deal with significant delays as each growth spurt is bogged down by the time and cost it takes to provision new servers, install the software, test it and bring it online. Which cloud delivery model would be best suited for them?
IaaS / PaaS / SaaS
--> SaaS is the best fit for scenario #1. XYZ uses managed services to run their CRM, email etc. SaaS has many advantages like reducing IT support cost by outsourcing hardware and software maintenance and support to SaaS provider. It also reduces the time to install the software and configure the software which could lead to problems during software deployment. It also has advantages over scalability and integration compared to traditional models, users do not have to buy another server or software.
Scenario #2
ABC is a mid-size animation company that has historically worked on some of the major animation movies in the last few years. Their core competence is their animation engineers, and their very talented IT staff that manages their server farms and develops new versions of their custom animation software. When they are working on a particular animation sequence, their typical development cycle involves large spikes in computing and storage usage, as they render each section and each version. Over the years, as animations have become more sophisticated, these spikes