Business-to-Business e-commerce (e-B2B) is the electronic transactions conducted between businesses. Compare and contrast the various e-B2B models, types of B2B transactions including sell-side, buy-side, marketplaces, supply chain and collaborative commerce, and B2B partnerships. This assignment tests your analytical and critical thinking skills and your ability to synthesize concepts around topics so write in your own words. The paper should be in APA format, 6 or more pages (not including reference page), with at least five references and citations throughout. Sections should include an Introduction that ends with a list of topics you plan to discuss, a subsection for each topic and a Summary or Conclusion section.

You have read about server virtualization and cloud computing For your written assignment this week, complete a case study of the organization you work for (use a hypothetical or “other” organization if more applicable) that will address the following prompts:

 • Describe the organization’s environment, and evaluate its preparedness for virtualization.

• Explain Microsoft (or another product) licensing for virtualized environments.

• Recommend a configuration for shared storage; make sure to discuss the need for high availability and redundancy for virtualization for the organization.

• Explain Windows Azure capabilities for virtual machines and managing a hybrid cloud, including Windows Azure’s Internet as a Service (IaaS) and storage capabilities

Make a recommendation for cloud computer use in the organization, including a justification for your recommendations.

3-pages.

Virtualization is perceived as the holy grail of IT because of the benefits that it offers to an organization.  It minimize or even eliminate duplicate data, and provides no conflict. I would think it would save a company money because would no longer have to build data warehouse or outsource data to a third party and less equipment would be purchased.

Virtualization can help Verbania with increasing productivity. Having fewer physical servers would save time, because the company would have less to maintain and manage. The staff would have more available time to work on other projects such as founding ways to increase revenues and cutting any expenses. The biggest thing is disaster recovery. In the event of a disaster it would be faster and much safer to move a virtual machine from one server to another. Normally virtualization platforms will contain software that would help automate failure during a disaster. (Top 5 Ways Businesses Benefit from Server Virtualization, 2017)

Some security considerations regarding virtualization would be virtual sprawl and virtual configuration setups. Virtual sprawl is a term associated with an expandable environment. With this type of technology, virtual machines can be available within minutes. As there are more machines available virtually it’s harder to keep the machines secure. It would be much easier to miss simple things such as security patches. Virtual configuration setups has to be monitored and watch closely. If the initial setup is full of security risks such as unnecessary ports, risky services or any other vulnerabilities, each virtual machine after will take on some risks. (Brown, 2016)

Virtualization enables multiple operating systems and applications to run at the same time on the same server. Cloud computing enables a network to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be provision and release with minimal management. Cloud computing has more scalability and can be extended as much as needed, where virtual machines has limitations. The setup is more tedious to do with cloud computing yet simple with virtualization. User access is flexible with cloud computing and virtualization will require proper authentication. (Difference between Cloud Computing and Virtualization, 2018)

I wouldn’t recommend virtualization, I believe cloud computing would be a better options just based on the benefits of being flexible and scalable. With a social networking company such as Verbania, it needs to be accessible across the world and cloud computing is best platform to showcase applications and software worldwide. Lastly back-up is more reliable to with cloud computing. With the amount of data being accepted and use, there should be an easy/quick platform to back up the sensitive information.

References

Brown, S. (2016). 4 Considerations for Securing Your Virtual Environments. Retrieved from https://www.rutter-net.com/blog/4-considerations-for-securing-your-virtual-environments

Difference Between Cloud Computing and Virtualization. (2018). Retrieved from EWDUCBA: https://www.educba.com/cloud-computing-vs-virtualization/

Top 5 Ways Businesses Benefit from Server Virtualization. (2017). Retrieved from New Horizons: https://blog.nhlearningsolutions.com/blog/top-5-ways-businesses-benefit-from-server-virtualization

Week 1 Assignment 1: Integrated Case Study: Bandon Group Inc.

Read the integrated case study on Bandon Group, Inc. starting on page 151. Review Table 1 on page 155 explaining the Activities, Documentation, and Things to Do. Complete the following:

Step 1: Purpose and scope of study

Step 2: Document high-level business direction

Step 3: Identify key information needs and measures

Step 4: Document detailed business requirements

Step 5: Document current IT situation – Internal

This paper should be APA 5th edition style standards including the following: Double space, 1” margins, title page, in text citation of references, and a reference page.

 Use at least three sources. Include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosed in quotation marks and cited in-line by reference to your reference list.  Example: “words you copied” (citation) These quotes should be one full sentence not altered or paraphrased. Cite your sources using APA format. Use the quotes in your paragraphs.