The Proposed ICT system Analysis

NEW ICT PROPOSAL- ANTIQUE BOUTIQUE 1
4. New ICT proposal
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NEW ICT PROPOSAL- ANTIQUE BOUTIQUE 2
New ICT proposal
Brief description of new ICT being proposed
The proposed ICT system will by a hybrid cloud solution containing the following sub-
systems and components;
 Personal computers
 Physical server
 Mobile devices
 Router
 Switch
 Local and Wide Area Networks
 Cloud architecture
 Web based software applications
Software as a Service (SaaS) – The accounting and office software will be implemented
from a public cloud server using an on-demand architecture and will b available over the internet to
be accessed from any store. The SaaS will also have other enterprise software used by the business,
including Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and cloud based applications used by the
business, including a mail server and e-mail services, Human Resource (HR) applications, Social
media, web application (e-commerce site), and enterprise office productivity applications that
include MS Office (Tianfield, 2011). These will be accessed by validated users using application
programming interfaces (API’s) and they will be able to access them from their physical computers
in the varous offices/ branches.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)- Services such as networking, storage, and virtualization
will be provided on a pay-per-use or pay-as-you-go method so business does not have to manage
the services and only pays for what is used. The IaaS will provide additional computing resources,
including virtual machines implemented via VM Ware so that new users can get virtual machines to
use from a dumb terminal and work can be migrated according to need to Virtual servers (Tianfield,
2011). The IaaS will also provide scalable storage services and networking, as well as firewalls to
enhanced security.
The hybrid cloud will entail having a central data center connected to the public cloud
services through a bridge to provide an additional backup mechanism and enable greater control