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Acme Pyrotechnix specialise in producing fireworks. They are currently have
branches in Australia and Indonesia, but hope to expand to Sri Lanka next
year. Currently Acme has a domain in each country. Acme a continuously
innovating with their fireworks and each country have a team dedicated to
designing fireworks that represent the cultures of their respective markets.
During festivals demand for fireworks is high, so each branch helps the other
by manufacturing fireworks to export to the location of the festival.
Consequently only designers should be able to store designs in their own
branch's DesignDocs folder. The production team need to be able to read
the DesignDocs folder from any branch.
1. Design a group strategy to meet the needs of this
company
Potential Incomplete Solution 2Prioritising Printer Use with Soft Printers
* More than one software printer can print to a
physical printer.
+ Using different software printers and printer
permissions you can prioritise who gets first use of
the printer.
» Priority 1 is the lowest priority. Priority 99 the
highest.
Why Virtualise?
A customer comes in and asks for 20 new servers
so they can update old servers and add
redundancy.
You need to convince them that server
virtualisation is a better approach.
What should you tell them to convince them?“A style of Computing where scalable and elastic IT capabilities are provided as
a service to multiple customers using Internet technologies” - Gartner
“Cloud computing is...the user-friendly version of grid computing” - Trevor
Doerksen
“Cloud computing really is accessing resources and services needed to
perform functions with dynamically changing needs. An application or service
developer requests access from the cloud rather than a specific endpoint or
named resource” — Kevin Hartig
“Most computer sawyy folks actually have a pretty good idea of what the term
“cloud computing" means: outsourced, pay-as-you-go, on-demand,
somewhere in the Internet, etc.” - Thorsten von Eicken
‘There is a clear consensus that there is no real consensus on what cloud
computing is” — Anonymous via Irving Wladawsky Berger.
For Network Administration we will use the rough
definition of
“Services hosted on Virtual Servers accessed via the
Internet”
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Cloud Services Model
- Infrastructure as a Service (laaS) — Servers on the cloud
host virtual servers and computers. Examples are AWS,
Microsoft Azure.
: Platform as a Service (PaaS) — Application servers on the
cloud host. On-line stores develop portals using the tools
on the Application Servers. An example is Google
Application Engine.
+ Software as a Service (SaaS) — Software is hosted by
servers on the cloud. Users connect to the software via a
web interface. Examples are Dropbox, Google docs,
Office365, Windows Live email, Gmail, etc