I have an assignment due today cis 250

Chapter 2, Information Management and IT Architecture, gives you the opportunity to study Information Management and IT Architecture. You will learn about current information management challenges as well as how to evaluate potential solutions.

1. Turn to page 38 and read IT at Work 2.2: Gartner’s View of Enterprise Architecture
2. Respond to questions 1 through 6
3. Turn to page 49 and read IT at Work 2.4: Cloud Pro Leverages iPad’s touch: Benefits Start-Ups
4. Respond to questions 1 through 3
5. Turn to page 54 and read Case 3, Three Cloud Computing Case Studies
6. Follow To Do 1 and 2, and respond to question 3.

1. Explain the relationship between complexity and planning. Give an example.

2. Explain IT architecture

3. What are the four components of IT architecture? Explain each component.

4. What are the uses and benefits of IT architecture? Explain.

5. How are baseline architecture, sequencing plan, and target architecture related?

6. Why should the organization’s target architecture never be achieved?

7. Consider this statement: Cloud computing is about the flexible delivery of services at the point of need. Explain how Cloud Pro offers flexible delivery of network management (the service). Explain how it offers that service to network admins at the point of need (e.g., while on vacation or away from the office.)

8.. Discuss one benefit and one disadvantage of Cloud Pro for admins.

9.Search and view a demo of Rackspace’s Cloud Pro for iPad. Does the app have amazing features, as Mike Mayo described? Include the URL that you viewed in your response to this question.

10.

1. Visit this URL (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. https://www.axway.com/en/webinar/think-outside-box… ***NOTE, the URL provided in the book has changed***
2. View the video
3. Explain the value, benefits, challenges, efficiencies of an organization’s cloud investment.

https://www.axway.com/en/webinar/think-outside-box…