select an organization that has leveraged Cloud Computing technologies in an attempt to improve profitability or to give them a competitive advantage.  Research the organization to understand the challenges that they faced and how they intended to use Cloud Computing to overcome their challenges.  The paper should include the following sections each called out with a header.

 Description: Develop a paper describing how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study.Requirements: Provide a >500 word (2 or more […]

You have recently been hired as a Chief Information Governance Officer (CIGO) at a large company (You may choose your industry). This is a newly created position and department within the organization that was founded on the need to coordinate all areas of the business and to provide governance of the information. You will need to hire for all positions within your new department.

Have you ever played the game “Mab Libs?” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Libs). The general idea was that one player would have a story and ask another player (who doesn’t know the story) for nouns and adjectives, etc. and the end result was that you’d read the pre-written story fitted with their mostly out-of-context words filling in key spots of the story. It usually was pretty funny.  

Describe  the reasons why separation of duties is a critical requirement for policy framework compliance. Understand how to develop a separation of duties policy.    Assignment Requirements  Participate in a discussion on the importance of separation of duties for personnel. Discuss examples of roles you would separate and why. For example, an administrator has full administrative server login access, and a network technician has limited administrative […]

1. For this discussion topic, you will need to research methods of dealing with add in hardware devices and how they work with virtualization.  Add in hardware would be items outside of the standard server configuration and might include things like USB license keys, barcode scanners, specialty video cards etc.  As part of the discussion you will want to identify the type of hardware you […]

The recent advances in information and communication technology (ICT) has promoted the evolution of conventional computer-aided manufacturing industry to smart data-driven manufacturing. Data analytics in massive manufacturing data can extract huge business values while it can also result in research challenges due to the heterogeneous data types, enormous volume and real-time velocity of manufacturing data.

Assignment: Provide a reflection of at least 600 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity […]

 Bitcoin Economics.  For this week’s research paper, search the Internet and explain why some organizations are accepting and other organizations are rejecting the use of Bitcoins as a standard form of currency.  Your paper needs to identify two major companies that have adopted Bitcoin technology as well as one that has refused accepting Bitcoin as a form of currency. Be sure to discuss each organization, how they adopted […]

 Discuss the difference between a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP), a Business Continuity Plan (BCP), and a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP).  You might want to start with the definitions from the NIST SP 800-34, located at http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-34r1.pdf.  Section 3.5 discusses the different types of Plan Testing, Training, and Exercises.