Your company has a small data center and has tasked you with the analyzing whether to move all or part of the operation to a public cloud provider. A major concern is the company has customer financial information that must meet regulatory data protection restrictions. At minimum, your analysis should include the following considerations:

i.Cost, operational and managerial advantages or disadvantages

ii.Security challenges

iii.Transition difficulty

iv.Survey of at least three public cloud providers and their capabilities

v.Recommendation and justification for choosing one of the three surveyed public cloud providers.

Your paper should be formatted using APA Sixth Edition including abstract and bibliography. If you are not familiar with APA Sixth Edition you will need to research how to use it. In addition to the recommended book in the syllabus there are ample YouTube videos to reference including how to automatically cite your sources and bibliography. I recommend you use a Microsoft Word template. The following must be included in your paper:

1. Cover page including all team members listed.
2. Text no larger than 12 point font.
3. Have a minimum of six different sources.
4. At least four figures (tables, graphs, pictures, etc.)
5. At least ten pages of text in length. Cover page, figures and bibliography do not count in the page count.
6. All original work. Be sure and apply proper source recognition including inline citations. SafeAssign originality checking will be used. Similarity results of over 5% will be scrutinized.
7. Quoted material can be used but cannot be more than 10% of your paper content.
8. Submit as a Microsoft Word document.

Grades will be determined using the following rubric:

Content: 50%

Clarity: 20%

Punctuation and grammar: 15%

APA Sixth Edition formatting: 15%