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Good Foods wants to know the differences in performance metrics

between the internal benchmarks of its current system and the external

benchmarks of the cloud-based services you have reviewed.

Considerthat the company currently connects all systems, stores, and employeesover LANs (at each corporate site and store), VPNs (for remote access asneeded), and a WAN (for access to organization-wide applications andservices). It runs Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise on 10 operationalservers and Microsoft 8 on 3,000 workstations (including desktops andlaptops) for employees.

Each of the Windows Server 2008Enterprise systems has two AMD processors, 32 GB of RAM, and opticalhard drives. Each of the Microsoft 8 systems has a single Intelprocessor, 4 GB of RAM, and optical hard drives.

To complete thisassignment, identify in a spreadsheet the differences between the GoodFoods servers and workstations and the cloud-based services provided byat least two of the vendors you have reviewed for the organization. Include statistics for the following metrics:

Hardware

• CPU computing power
• Memory bandwidth

Storage

• Input/Output operations per second (IOPS)

Networking

• Bandwidth

Then, in a minimum of 4 pages, include the following information:

• Summarize the performance results from your internal benchmark findings.
• Identifywhich vendor(s) may be a fit for the Good Foods company, based on thecompany's current needs. Address processing speed, load testingpractices, service consistency, and data availability and reliability inyour review. Justify your recommendation.
• Review and describeat least 2 reputable benchmarking tools you would recommend to GoodFoods to use when evaluating the performance of its cloud-basedservices. Justify your recommendation by the value the tool wouldprovide the company looking to assess its cloud-based solutions in thefuture.

Use APA formatting style (title page, references page, and in-text citations).