Comprehensive IT Infrastructure Report for AusEd Education

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the IT infrastructure for AusEd, a non-profit education organization. The report begins with project preliminaries, outlining the purpose and scope of the problem, the business context, and system assumptions. It includes a system diagram with schematic diagrams and a detailed list of equipment and devices, along with justifications for hardware selection. A thorough cost analysis of the proposed infrastructure design is presented, followed by a discussion of techniques to achieve a sustainable global economy and environmental responsibilities. The report emphasizes the importance of IT infrastructure management in enhancing efficiency, minimizing costs, and ensuring quality of service for AusEd's educational programs. The solution includes Cisco devices, APC Back UPS, Acer servers, and Netgear networking equipment. The report highlights how effective IT infrastructure management can improve the organization's operations and help AusEd expand its services, especially in areas with unreliable internet connections, and achieve its strategic goals.

Running head: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE
Information technology Infrastructure
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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................3
Project preliminaries............................................................................................................3
Purpose and scope of the problem space and business context...........................................5
Scope of the system explanations and assumptions............................................................5
Proper system diagram using suitable schematic diagrams.................................................7
List of equipments and devices for the design.....................................................................7
Justification of the selected hardware..................................................................................8
Cost analysis of the requirements........................................................................................8
Consider and apply techniques to achieve sustainable global economy and environmental
responsibilities...............................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................12
References..........................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
In changing economy of current tines, there is essentiality improvising business
requirements as per the changing demands of the market, customers as well as technologies. It
makes cause for changes in the environment of business. On the other hand, IT infrastructure
increases overall efficiency of the operating elements of the organization. Management of the
infrastructures in such areas like cloud, security, IT, server, application data as well as people is
provided major significance. Hence, in order to ensure effective service, the infrastructure
management has an important role. Present study deals with the project preliminaries, purpose as
well as scope of the problem space and business context. In addition, the scope of the system
descriptions as well as assumptions for the case study AusEd is discussed in the study.
Appropriate system diagram is designed using suitable schematic diagrams. Moreover, list of
equipments as well as devices for the design is discussed in the study.
Project preliminaries
AusEd has expanded its business across Australia and outside of diversifying sources of
funding. In tactical forms, extending educational services to the areas with unreliable internet
connections is processed. In this aspect, enhancing reliability for evaluation of the students are
required. However, it is important to maintain accosting system that running MYOB software
and customer relationship management system would be helpful. Laudon and Laudon (2015)
stated that development of add-on to Moodle like the students maintaining personal computers is
important for the organization. In addition, local databases of Moodle discussion forums with a
centralized database during availability of connection are required. The photographs need

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including a reliable time stamp need to be kept securely until it is transferred to central local
internet connection.
Involving IT infrastructure management involves taking control of IT environment of the
organization. In digital environment, several factors are out of control. Hence, controlling and
creating factors that are included in technological stability will discuss the immediate advantages
as well as significance of IT infrastructure management of the organization. IT infrastructure
management can present several ways to monitor viruses to the surveying equipments for signs
as well as upgrading imminent (Ortiz et al. 2017). The target of IT infrastructure management
requires to achieve overall effectiveness regarding IT procedures, policies, data, equipments and
human services. Hence, it is required to manage IT infrastructure properly So that AusEd can
expand its process and operation and gain benefits.
IT infrastructure management acts an important role in minimizing costs of the
organization. Thus, ensuring quality of service is required to maintain properly largely that helps
to overcome the risks (Laudon and Laudon 2015). Hence, underlying principles of IT
infrastructure as well as overall costs of the organization need to ensure quality of service
maintained largely. Introduction of IT infrastructure management in an organization and end-to-
end solution are required to provide to the customers and optimizing data. The IT infrastructure
develops prominent backbone to the economy of the organization (Sellers et al. 2017). Thus, it is
considered as most significant to monitor as well as manage the process effectively and
overcome the challenges. The major business issues faced by the organization are subsided when
IT infrastructure management has an important role in order to shape future through providing
enhancing procedures, policies when it is adhered to the standards and collection of efficient
data. Management of networks, IT assets as well as IT staffs is required by the organization.

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Purpose and scope of the problem space and business context
In the preset context, AusED Inc is known as non-profit private education organization,
aims to provide online education in information technology as well as business to the students
across the world. Donovan (2016) mentioned that the organization wants to involve and work
partnership with the communities, industries as well as business. It seeks providing multiple
learning experiences along with opportunities so that it helps to enrich learning journey of the
students. On the other hand, there are two components to the strategic plan of AusED Inc. It is
required to increase income through diversifying sources of funding. Additionally, extending
educational services to the areas with poor and unreliable internet connections is required by the
project of AusED Inc. Along with these, it is important to use and participate in the process of
developing open sources software (Kuroki et al. 2017). Development of add-on to Moodle like
that the students can be able to maintain on personal computers is one of the major activities and
technology plane for AusED Inc. In addition, local databases of Moodle discussion forum with a
central database system are required considered as purpose and scope of the problem space as
well as business context.
Scope of the system explanations and assumptions
Management of IT infrastructure in various ways is helpful to increase strategic planning
as well as business revenues. It is considered as an extreme requirement as well as significance
for infrastructure management in the organization. It assists to fulfill organizational targets.
Cloud infrastructure is based on virtualization tools in order to implement sources from IT. In
addition, investments are used in flexible as well as efficient way that increases security of the
organization.

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In the present case study, the organization provides distance education programs and the
student can study from any part of the world specially Australia, Papua New Guinea as well as
South Pacific Islands. The students of AusED Inc pursues study programs through several means
consisting of using special study lectures as well as receiving study materials online by post.
Hence, it is required to expand its education program by increasing IT infrastructure (Braojos-
Gomez et al. 2015). Moreover, it is important to develop online discussion forums as well as
electronic library resources and direct communication with lectures as well as through receiving
study materials online by post.
In this situation, AusED Inc wants to add special study centers in Darwin, Pt Moresby,
Alince Springs and Suva. In those hubs, students can fulfill their demands and get support. The
centers provides students a place in order to meet with the staffs along with colleagues in order
to develop study groups and access resources as well as technology. In the study centers, the
organization provides several facilities such as student computers as well as workstations. In
addition, support staffs are present for helping academic enquiries. The students can do
photocopying, scanning as well as printing. In the hub, the students can avail facilities like
multimedia meeting areas with state-of-art video conferencing facilities. In addition, tutorial
meeting rooms are available for the study groups (Redlich et al. 2015). On the other hand,
tutorial meeting rooms are also available for the study groups. Wireless networking can enable
connection of the student devices as well as laptops to internet along with AusED systems/

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Proper system diagram using suitable schematic diagrams
List of equipments and devices for the design
A complete list of equipment, devices necessary for the design.
The following are the list of devices and the equipments that are required for the
development of the network solution:
Cisco SD2005 5-Port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Switch
APC Back UPS RS
Acer Altos R720 Rackmount Servers
Cisco Catalyst 2811 Series Riouter.

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Lacie 2 TB 10/100/1000 Back-up Device
Netgear WG302 Managed Wireless Access Point
Netgear GS108 Switch 8-port
Justification of the selected hardware
Cisco SD2005 5-Port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Switch – It is used for the enforcing full
power in the network solution and provides gigabyte speed on the network for increasing the
efficiency of the network.
APC Back UPS RS – it is used for handling emergency conditions and
Acer Altos R720 Rackmount Servers
Cisco Catalyst 2811 Series Riouter.
Lacie 2 TB 10/100/1000 Back-up Device
Netgear WG302 Managed Wireless Access Point
Netgear GS108 Switch 8-port
Cost analysis of the requirements
A cost analysis of the proposed Infrastructure design
Cost Estimation Vendor Q
ty
Maxi
mum
Minim
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Maxi
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Total
Minimum
Total
Hardware

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Cisco SD2005 5-Port
10/100/1000 Gigabit Switch
Learning
With
Technologies
2 $11,00
0.00
$10,50
0.00
$
22,000
.00
$
21,000.00
APC Back UPS RS Learning
With
Technologies
2 495 2
02 $
990.00
$
404.00
Acer Altos R720
Rackmount Servers
Learning
With
Technologies
5 $4,847
.00
$
3,233.
00
$
24,235
.00
$
16,165.00
Cisco Catalyst 2811
Series Riouter.
Learning
With
Technologies
2 $8,900
.00
$8,500
.00 $
17,800
.00
$
17,000.00
Lacie 2 TB 10/100/1000
Back-up Device
Learning
With
Technologies
2 659 659
$
1,318.
00
$
1,318.00
Netgear WG302
Managed Wireless Access Point
Learning
With
Technologies
20 3
31
3
31 $
6,620.
00
$
6,620.00
Netgear GS108 Switch
8-port
Learning
With
3
6
1
59
1
59 $
$
5,724.00

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Technologies 5,724.
00
Sub Total
$
78,687
.00
$
68,231.00
Consider and apply techniques to achieve sustainable global economy and environmental
responsibilities
Suprayitno and Soemitro (2017) commented that economic sustainability can be taken as
the combination of remaining commercially viable as well as ideally across the future
generations. Hence, it is required to be viable and able to sustain operations in facing unexpected
as well as severe events for global financial crisis (Berger et al. 2017). On the contrary, five
capitals that consist of natural capital that comes from ecological system view economic
sustainability. It generates capital that comes from productive activities. Human capital that
comes from talented people and social capital come from social trust as well as social interaction.
Application infrastructure would assist in the assessment of the applications in the
organization, mapping several underlying applications such as databases, designing applications
infrastructure and migration of the applications to distinctive destination from source, monitoring
as well as management of vendors (Gardner et al. 2015). On the other hand, overall concept of IT
infrastructure management is rapidly adapting in the organizations in order to encounter the
existing demands of the customers. The assets of the organization are required to handle
carefully to the changes in technology. It turns helping to overcome risks as well as decreases

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complexity of the issues. In every area, infrastructure management is required to interlink for
adopting practices that are considered as the best in industry.
However, environment sustainability is directly focused on physical environment.
Economic as well as environment sustainability are linked in various ways. Hence, generating
products as well as services need to greater or lesser degree that uses natural resources. Hence, ei
it comes with environment cost. In the present case study, AusEd has made a technology plan.
Project off-line module is one of the major aspects involved with technology plan. In this aspect,
local databases of Moodle (Kabir et al. 2014). On the other hand, development of add-on moodle
those students are able to complete the examinations. Running any of MS Windows, Mac OS or
Linux operating systems are photographed at regular intervals by on-board computer of
computers. The photographs need consists of reliable timestamp as well as kept securely when it
is transferred to central location. In addition, it is important to develop program that makes the
process easy for the organization. However, AusEd organized in three organizational structures
need to be managed properly. AusEd has 2000 students and nearly 100 staffs. Thus, it is
important to manage them effectively.
Effective IT infrastructure management is helpful to reduce cost. If management of IT
infrastructure will not be able predicting or managing disasters, it is required to lead lengthy
downtimes (Dolinsky et al. 2015). Adjustment of infrastructure enhancing agility as well as
simplicity in the project will be helpful to minimize time, effort as well as budget. Implementing
virtualization in order to increase efficiency will move workload to fewer amounts.

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Conclusion
From the above study, it concludes that it is important for an organization to focus on
development effective IT infrastructure so that the organization can obtain competitive
advantages. Organization gets advantage from architecture of the infrastructure. In addition, it is
important to gather the requirements for the organization so that it helps to fulfill demands of the
organization. In the present case study, AusEd has decided to expand its learning and online
education in information technology and business to the students. Distance education programs
are studied across the world. In this aspect, information technology program has been expanded
and regarding this. Thus, proper analysis and justification of the requirements will be helpful for
the organization.