Brindisi Brothers is a family-owned, medium-sized construction company doing residential and commercial construction and remodeling in New Jersey. Their field staff including their project consultant use iPads to take pictures and measurements of room dimensions on site during the bidding process and also before and after pictures of any construction jobs they complete. The manager of field operations uses email and a mobile phone, as does his brother who is the president of the firm. Their offices, staffed by their daughter who is the accountant and administrator, maintain two small networks at their two office locations, one at the shore and one in the New Jersey suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Sensitive consumer financial data as well as information on home security systems at residenc

a. Prepare a list of factors they should consider in choosing cloud computing, along with a list of advantages and disadvantages.
b. In a paragraph, explain to the brothers the difference between a private cloud and a public cloud.
c. In a paragraph, write a recommendation for upgrading the Brindisi Brothers networks that includes moving to cloud computing and specifies whether a private, public, or hybrid cloud option would be the ideal option for them.

a. Is the data secure residing in the cloud?
Will it cost more or less if we move to the cloud?
Will we be able to migrate the data into the cloud without any data compatibility issues?
How long will it take to switch to the cloud and which conversion strategy should be used?

Advantages:
Scalable environment that adapts to business needs and growth.
Users do not need to understand, control, or be experts in the technology infrastructure.
Not necessary to make up-front capital expenditures on I T infrastructure.
Redundancy for disaster recovery.

Disadvantages:
Not immune to outages.
Security focus may lead to loss of control over mission critical data.

b. In a private cloud, our sensitive data will reside in an isolated environment and hardware resources will be dedicated. In a public cloud, our data will be stored on a system that supports and shares resources with other cloud customers.

c. It is recommended that Brindisi Brothers move to a private cloud solution since the firm houses sensitive data for consumers, home security systems, proposals, and bids. The company is medium-sized and should utilize its human resources to focus on business strategy, operations, and growth. As the company grows, the cloud solution is able to scale along with it. This is an example of letting the company focus on what it does best, and letting the private cloud service provider to handle all data processing, data storage, information security, and technology matters.