Total cost of ownership

Your research paper should address following topics. Paper should be 12-15 pages [excluding reference page. Include reference page]

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• Chapter 16
  • Define and describe total cost of ownership. List at least 10 items to consider when determining a data center’s total cost of ownership.
  • Define and describe a capital expense. How are capital expenses different from operational expenses?
  • Define and describe economies of scale and provide a cloud-based example.
  • Define and describe “right sizing” as it pertains to cloud computing.
  • Define Moore’s law and discus how it might influence cloud migration.
  • Given company revenues of $2.5 million and expenses of $2.1 million, calculate the company’s profit and profit margin.
• Chapter 17
  • Compare and contrast functional and nonfunctional requirements and provide an example of each.
  • Discuss why a designer should avoid selecting an implementation platform for as long as possible during the design process.
  • Discuss various trade-offs a designer may need to make with respect to nonfunctional requirements.
  • Discuss why the system maintenance phase is often the most expensive phase of the software development life cycle.
• Chapter 19
  • Define scalability.
  • List five to ten potential relationships that align with the Pareto principle, such as how 80 percent of sales come from 20 percent of customers.
  • Compare and contrast vertical and horizontal scaling.
  • Explain the importance of the database read/write ratio.
  • Assume a site guarantees 99.99 percent uptime. How many minutes per year can the site be down?
• Chapter 20
  • List and describe five ways you think the cloud will change the future of TV.
  • List and describe five potential uses for intelligent fabric.
  • List and describe five ways the cloud will influence the mobile application market, or vice versa.
  • Discuss the importance of HTML 5.
  • Discuss how the cloud will impact future operating systems.
  • List and describe three potential location-aware applications.
  • List and describe five ways intelligent devices may work together.

– Include AT LEAST ONE external source [apart from attached textbook], for each chapter. So your reference section should have AT LEAST 5 references. More references are encouraged.

– Your answers should be written in your own words, and it should make sense. No spinbots.

– Name the sections of your paper as chapter 16, 17 etc. No need to name subsections, based on questions asked per chapter. Follow APA 7 format for the same.

– Answer each question in detail, AVOID one line answers.

References for provided material:

Jamsa, K. A. (2013). Cloud computing: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, virtualization, business models, mobile, security and more. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.