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Competency

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:

Explain the concepts of virtualization
Explain the concepts of cloud-based architecture

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Scenario

The company you work for, Packages Plus Delivery (PPD), currently houses its physical computing environments on site. Packages Plus Delivery is growing, including the number of packages delivered and the number of employees hired each quarter. As a result of this growth and to better meet the needs of the clients, organizational leadership recently made the decision to virtualize all computing environments.

Leadership is deciding between internal virtualization and the use of an external vendor. They are also considering a move to cloud-based architecture but want to know more about the risks and cost benefits of moving to a cloud environment.

As a virtual solutions analyst at Packages Plus Delivery, you serve on a Virtualization Transition Committee. This group has been asked to create a presentation that emphasizes how the decision to move to virtualization will improve business strategy, and what the options are if the company considers moving the infrastructure to a cloud environment. Your presentation will ensure that leadership makes an informed decision.

Directions

You have been asked to create a presentation that supports the company’s decision to move to virtualization. Within the presentation, you will need to address each of the following topics in order to inform leadership:

Describe how the company’s decision to move to a virtual computing environment will impact its business strategy. If you use sources, be sure to provide a citation.
You must include:
- In order to provide the most detailed information, you need to compare the implications of the organization moving to a virtual environment using its hardware servers in-house with the implications of using a third-party vendor to virtualize. You may create a visual (such as a Venn Diagram) or write a passage to explain these concepts. You will need to compare the following factors and describe the advantages, disadvantages, and risks associated with each:
  - Cost: equipment such as hardware and software, maintenance (i.e., upgrades and backups), licensing, security (i.e., shared responsibility, on premises)
  - Capacity
  - Agility
  - Service availability
- As the company moves toward virtualization, you want to inform leadership of cloud-based architecture by describing the cloud service models that are available.
  You must describe:
  - IaaS
  - PaaS
  - SaaS
  For each cloud service model, you must:
  - Explain how it supports virtualization
  - Advantages for organizations
  - Disadvantages for organizations
- Describe different types of cloud deployment models that the company can deploy.
  You must include:
  - The benefits of each cloud deployment model
  - The constraints of each cloud deployment model
  - An explanation of how each cloud environment impacts the scalability of the business
    - The costs of moving to that type of deployment model
    - The training involved in moving to that type of deployment model

What to Submit

To complete this project, you must submit the following:

PresentationYour presentation should be submitted on a file that your instructor can easily access (.ppt, PDF, .doc).

Your presentation must include:

The evidence that supports your company’s decision to move to virtualization
A comparison of creating a virtual environment in-house compared to using an external vendor
Information on the various cloud service models
Description of cloud deployment model options

Supporting Materials

The following resource(s) may help support your work on the project:

This document shows you how to design an effective presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides, Screencastify, and Apple Keynote.

You are welcome to use these images of the company’s logo to enhance your presentation.

Project One Rubric

Criteria	Exemplary (100%)	Proficient (85%)	Needs Improvement (55%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Benefits and Constraints of Virtualization	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Describes the benefits and constraints of moving to a virtual computing environment	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include describing various benefits and constraints of moving to virtualization	Does not attempt criterion	15
Scalability of Virtualization	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Explains how scalability of moving to a virtual computing environment will impact the business	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include explaining the costs, and hardware and software involved	Does not attempt criterion	10
In-House Vs. Third-Party Vendor	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Compares in-house virtualization to using an external vendor	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include comparing costs, capacity, agility, and availability of internal and hosted virtualization	Does not attempt criterion	20
Cloud Service Models	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Describes the available cloud service models	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include describing multiple cloud environments	Does not attempt criterion	20
Cloud Deployment Models	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Describes the benefits and constraints of different cloud deployment models	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include describing various benefits and constraints of each type of cloud deployment model	Does not attempt criterion	15
Scalability of Cloud Environments	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Explains how a cloud environment impacts the scalability of a business	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include explaining the costs and training of deploying a cloud environment	Does not attempt criterion	10
Articulation of Response	Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner	Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purpose	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readability	Submission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas	5
Citations and Attributions	Attributes sources where applicable using citation methods with very few minor errors	Attributes sources where applicable, but with consistent minor errors	Attributes sources where applicable, but with major errors	Does not attribute sources where applicable	5
Total:	100%

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How to Design and Deliver an Effective Presentation

This document presents a variety of resources and tools available for designing and delivering an effective presentation.

Designing an Effective Presentation

To access the tutorials, log in to Atomic Learning using your SNHU credentials, then click on the links below to view the materials.

These tutorials show you the elements of effective presentation design, which will be helpful in creating an engaging presentation that effectively conveys your message to your audience. Specifically, review the following tutorials:

How Do I Create a Unique Presentation?

Learn It: Being an Engaging Presenter

 Engaging the audience

 Adding humor

 Incorporating stories

 Using metaphors

Effective Presentation Design

Presentations: What You Need to Know

 What’s the big idea?  What the presentation is, and what it’s not  The visual presentation of information

Getting Started

 Presentation design and process

 Outlining and Storyboarding

 Make it real

 Using text

 Making text clear and concise

Communicating

 Using images

 Using graphics

Telling the Story

 Organizing the story

 Using animations

 Using transitions

Getting Ready for Delivery

 Creating presenter’s notes

Additional Resources:

Simple Rules for Better PowerPoint Presentations

This list of suggestions includes tips on how to read your information, preferable color and font usage, and the incorporation of humor and animation into your presentation.

Organization & Preparation Tips

This article focuses on 10 tips for preparing content for your presentation. The topics include suggestions for approaching your topic, questions to consider as you build the content, and ways to organize what you plan to present.

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