ASM 1 Managing a Successful Computing Project 1625 FPT Greenwich (Merit Super Sale)

ASSIGNMENT 2 FRONT SHEET
Qualification

BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma in Computing

Unit number and title

Unit 06: Managing a Successful Computing Project

Submission date

17/12/2022

Date Received 1st submission

Re-submission Date

Date Received 2nd submission

Student Name

Nguyen Huy Hoang

Student ID

GCH200739

Class

GCH0908

Assessor name

Nguyen The Lam Tung

Student declaration
I certify that the assignment submission is entirely my own work and I fully understand the consequences of plagiarism. I understand that
making a false declaration is a form of malpractice.

Student’s signature

Grading grid
P5

P6

P7

M3

M4

D2


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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................................................................... 4
I. Research Analysis (P5, M3) .................................................................................................................................................... 5
1. Analyse And Evaluate ..................................................................................................................................................... 5
II. Recommendations (P6) ...................................................................................................................................................... 16
1. Summary About Your Proposed System .................................................................................................................... 16
2. List Of Features for Your Proposed System. .............................................................................................................. 17
3. Give Advantages and Disadvantages of My Proposed System ................................................................................ 19
III. Reflections (P7) ................................................................................................................................................................... 20
1. List of logbooks: ............................................................................................................................................................ 20
2. Evaluation of Research result: ..................................................................................................................................... 29
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................................................................... 30


INTRODUCTION
In assignment 1, I have described and started implemented the project as well as the research project for planning
and managing a project which develop and support migrating server system to cloud-based computing systems could
be a nice way to reduce its carbon emissions by limitation the use of physical hardware; Especially, implementing
cloud systems instead of traditional computing. This report will examine the feedback from the previous one in more
detail, make comments about the project that was selected, list its advantages and disadvantages, and make a
judgment about whether it is beneficial to employ it or not. Diaries will be discussed as well during the project
progress. now follow-up

I. Research Analysis (P5, M3)
1. Analyse And Evaluate
1.1.

Interview Results:
Interview's the ideal approach to observe the interviewee's reactions and any emotions I may sense from
them. Since I employed a quantitative technique, the interview may have been conducted at a time that
is convenient for the interviewer. Hence, during the interview, I will be in complete charge and maintain
the interviewee's attention and progress without the aid of any technological distractions.
For get the good interview results, I have contacted and make an appointment to interview Michael
Donald, a senior IT technical infrastructure at leading Vietnam-based Gold Partner cloud computing
consulting company, Lazada. He has unified experience in adding values to the existing technological
architecture of various businesses. As first introduction, he describes during his professional journey, he
has tackled a wide range of challenges and have built the ability to work through challenging issues for
any industry. Here is the interview script with him:
Questions

Answer

When it coming to this term, what is the Your website's performance is directly
main and first benefits of cloud-based

correlated with server uptime.

system in your mind?

Maximum network uptime and single
point of failure are provided by cloud
hosting.

Do you think using the cloud server

Yes, because you don't need to invest in

system to host application is cheaper

any infrastructure when using a cloud

and reasonable in investing

hosting model, and your operating

infrastructure? And why?

expenses are also lower because you
only must pay for the resources and
services that you actually use.


In contrast, with a typical hosting
approach, you must pay a certain
amount whether you use the services
or not.
Do you think traditional server system

Yes, traditional hosting servers are

is quite limited about the location?

restricted to a single area, therefore

you must be careful when selecting
your server since server location has a
significant impact on how quickly a
website load.

Is the characteristics of cloud-based

Yes, of course. The full capacity of cloud

hosting could be better than the

servers reduces idle time and

traditional hosting when it comes to

conserves energy for the environment

environment?

and the business. By doing away with
the need to maintain internal servers,
cloud hosting lowers carbon emissions.

What do you expect to achieve from

The ability to scale and cost reduction

cloud migration?
What are the reasons behind why you

As I said, cost efficiency and better

are thinking about moving to the cloud? impact to environment is the two main
reasons that my company move to the
cloud.
What experience do you have with

My most crucial experience is needed

cloud migrations?

to understand why you’re moving to
the cloud and know which applications
to move to cloud-first.


What sort of cost savings, return on

I really don’t know so much about it.

investment, and revenue generation

But based on what I saw, and my

are you expecting by implementing

company did, this will be a very good

these changes?

deal when you migration to cloud.

How long do you expect the migration

It’s based on the quality of your team,

to cloud process to take?

but it normally takes 1 – 3 months for a
service

Do you remember the communication,

No, I don’t.

or any follow up after you performed
the cloud-based system migration?
Generally, Mr Michael Donald has a deep insight understand about the cloud computing methodologies.
Just via some initial questions, I could learn from he so briefly the benefits of cloud-based system and he
also explain shortly what needed to compare between the traditional server and cloud native server. With
his first answer, he said that what make he think about cloud hosting is the speed optimization and
especially the performance of the server. This maybe because he and his company work mostly with the
Lazada product – a very popular e-commerce, which is so complicated in its architecture, microservices,
fully-distributed, decentralized, services platform serving, etc…. And all of them could be implemented
with the use of cloud computing. This shows that cloud computing is take the big part in the way of
optimization and load balancer for hosting. With the first answer, he also gives me a suggest proving my
thesis. In the second answer, what I could analyse from his answer is for organizations, the cloud itself is
cost-effective. Moving to the cloud is less expensive than I would imagine. As the cloud service provider
will take care of all the IT infrastructure needs for a set fee, there are no upfront investments required.
Owning and operating my company’s servers can increase maintenance and administration costs,

resulting in unforeseen and unwelcome expenses. Additionally, cloud uses less energy and is more


effective than a traditional IT setup. More effective hardware utilisation translates into more powerefficient operation. Before employing cloud computing, businesses had to store their data on local
servers that they had to purchase, protect, and administer. Today, a business may sign up for a cloud
computing service and start using it almost instantly. There's no need to spend money on pricey server
gear or hire extra staff.
When I mention to the restricted location of traditional, he gives an implicit answer about the
disadvantages of traditional hosting by its restricted location and location has effect to the quality of
hosting performance, this take me into know more about the disadvantages of traditional hosting. He
also takes a comparation about when compared to a typical server setup, a website hosted in a cloud
environment performs far better. The cloud is the ideal choice for people that need quick page loads,
instant and flexible resource allocation, disaster recovery plans, energy-efficient and environmentally
friendly server setups, and most all, more for less money. He also agrees with me that migration to cloud
server bring about the better impact to environment. This is because there is no longer a need to maintain
internal servers, there are less greenhouse gas emissions.
In the next part of interview, I ask him more about his experience working with cloud and he advise me
to carefully analyse why I need to move our server to the cloud and know which applications to move to
cloud-first. Thereby, from his useful answer with a short time interview, he provides me a lot of evidence
that the real-world case study about the benefits of cloud computing out weight the traditional hosting
and these will help me in consolidate my thesis.
1.2.

Survey Results:
I include 9 research questions in the survey that are investigate the attitude, knowledge and behavior of
people in IT field toward cloud-based system in their company/ team/ product project. Therefore, this
survey’s goal is to look at factors that affect cloud computing adoption. Because developers in tech
company's perspective will add to the study, they were picked as a candidate. It is entirely optional, and

all replies are handled in strictest confidence. The purpose of this study is therefore to investigate aspects
that influence the adoption of cloud computing.
Approximately more than 60 distinct respondents also have provided their responses for the survey. To
ensure the randomness in gathering the sample data, I have spread surveys throughout newsfeed of
these

•

tech

company

in

LinkedIn,

Twitter,

Reddit

and

Quora…

Question 1:

The respondents who responded to this survey were 48.2% in range 28 - 40 years old, 35% in range 18 - 28
years old, 10 % in range older than 40 years old and the others were not preferring to say. Respondents from
18 to 40 years old cover mostly the number of respondents because they not only spent quite a lot of their
time on social media, but they also are in the common age range of tech working field.

•

Question 2:


Because the scope of this survey is people who works or related to the IT infrastructure field. So, there are
43.3% people are the experts and researchers which cover mostly the total percent. This is because the survey’s
topic may attract more experts in field than others. Additionally, 36.7 % are developer and devops and 20 %
are businessmen.
This question is aimed at understanding people's habits and tendencies when considering buying a new edevice. Responders could choose multiple times because this is a check box answer.
•

Question 3:

According to the survey results for this question, up to 28.8% of respondents are working in high Tech company,
25.4% are working in manufacturing company and 23.7% are from retail company, indicating that there are the


common kind of company which are interest in cloud field. Maybe, they believe that migrating to cloud field is
essential when the traditional hosting has some disadvantages.
•

Question 4:

According to the data above, which depict what participants said that ERP and Entertainment Services is the
most prefer system/services to be migrated to cloud-based system. Maybe, it's somewhat because of their
financial solution, there type of services is quite lightweight in resource and somehow is very suitable for cloud
system. Besides, other chosen services are very board, almost service are expected or planned to migrate to
the cloud. This show that the trend of cloud system is very attract for people in IT infrastructure field especially
experts. Another explanation is that in their company/ team/ product project, they want to save costs and

expenditures for hosting; so, it’s quite convenient for them when passing by them.
•

Question 4:


This one just shows the knowledge of responders about the use of cloud computing, it’s would be helpful
when our company prove the benefits of cloud-based migration to CEO.
•

Question 5:

According to the survey results for this question, up to 46.7% of respondents consider the internal data could
be the risks of cloud computing, 33.3% think that they afraid about loss of control over their IT infrastructure
and 11.7% is vendor-lock, indicating that although cloud computing is very potential because of its benefits,
there are some risks that the people in field still afraid.


•

Question 6:

According to the survey results for this question, almost responders said that they disagree that the integrating
cloud computing is very difficult to existing systems. This depict that integrating/migrating the existing IT
systems via experience and research is not so difficult. The responders of this survey are mainly people in IT
infrastructure field, they have so much knowledge about this field and their answer will be reasonable.
•

Question 7:

According to the survey results for this question, almost responders agree that their company already had a
clear and coherent digital strategy including how tech drives business goals and how it could be implemented.
This depicts that other tech company implicitly has a move to the grab the potential chance in cloud computing.

•

Question 8:

According to the survey results for this question, almost responders agree that cloud computing is important
in terms of competitive advantage for the firm.

•

Question 9:


According to the survey results for this question, almost responders said that their company already had a
clear and coherent digital strategy on cloud computing. They are also in the stage of cloud computing adoption.
This depicts that other tech company implicitly has a move to the grab the potential chance in cloud computing.

In conclusion, performing the survey had helped me get the great insight on what individuals think about
cloud-based migration, the survey tells me how cloud computing has been researched and developed. It also
shows how many people have positively responded to the changes of hosting form. The survey has helped
me gauged the representativeness of individual views and experiences in the IT infrastructure field. The
survey has provided me with hard numbers on people's opinions on cloud computing. This may lead to our
businesses and company institutions to make important decisions on migration to cloud-computing such as
finding the suitable deployment model and what service suitable to be migrated to the cloud environment,
providing employers with the right training and equipment to keep them from cybersecurity risks as this was
the main concern when it came to the negative aspects of cloud computing. In closing the survey would

benefit businesses as it gives them an insight on how to improve cloud computing system for getting the
chance and the potential point for my company in the run into 4.0 technology. A few questions, however,


might result in data that is confusing since different respondents may have interpreted various answer
alternatives. Since I can't see the responses in person, I can't be sure whether they are providing me truthful
responses to the survey's questions. There is also a chance that the responder will become weary while
completing the survey. This might happen if the respondent thinks the questions are too lengthy or if they
appear pertinent to them. Despite these limitations, I now realize that the bulk of the cloud computing issue
was either favourably influenced or was not affected by the adjustment that was necessary.

II. Recommendations (P6)
1. Summary About Your Proposed System
➢ Project Scenario:
Recently, I have seen my partnering tech company race in bringing their IoT products, web 2.0, web 3.0 and
other online services to broad communities as well as the ERP for internal department through the internet.
They created significant digital transformance, invested the new hardware computing server, and advanced
IT significantly.
However, there were also negative impacts to this change. Hosting and deploying more online service and
every internet-based product needs the strong machinery was used as there were necessary to hire more
technology manufacturers, engineers, developers, who led to the creation of more garbage and energy
waste than before.
This kind of garbage gave rise to pollution. A significant carbon footprint was left by industrialization. Hence,
we are planning to a computer system that would lessen carbon emissions and enable them to improve the
environment in the long run. To deal with that, planning and managing a project which develop and support
migrating server system to cloud-based computing systems could be a nice way to reduce its carbon
emissions by limitation the use of physical hardware; Especially, implementing cloud systems instead of
traditional computing.

➢ Summary the project:
Project Name

Migration online services and ERP of company to
cloud-based system

Project Manager

Sir Nguyen Huy Hoang

Duration

22/11/2022 – 3/3/2022

Budget

47,600%

Approval Date

15/12/2022

➢ Project Objectives:
•

Establish the organization's precise goals in enhance the technologies as well as contribute to

improve the environment.
•

To migrate, evaluate the organization's current systems, applications, and data.

•

Help with financial planning and migration

•

Estimate the cost of the suggested remedy.

•

Make a transparent technology and execution roadmap.

•

Plan and carry out actions to address data security, backups, compliance, security, disaster

recovery, and other issues.
➢ Project Deliverables:
•

Complete migration the company’s some lightweight intelligence service application and product
onto cloud-based server.

•

Migration all company’s ERP system onto cloud.

2. List Of Features for Your Proposed System.

No.
1.

Feature

Description

Cloud-based Resiliency

My company could preserve data and guarantee
business continuity by using cloud-based storage,
backup, and disaster recovery.

2.

Optimization for online services

Support company in automatically analysing that point
out the underutilization of cloud resources. Data
analytics generates cloud use insights that enable my
business to create a plan for a more economical and
strategic approach to client.

3.

Collaboration

My company are working mostly hybrid and remote,

after migration to cloud, cloud services provide the tools
they need for business collaboration. SaaS offerings
include file sharing, mobility management, and unified
communications solutions

4.

Convenient Services

The client does not have to download and install an
update to keep the app up to date, the cloud-based app
is updated centrally by the service provider.

5.

Instant scalability

Cloud-based apps can grow alongside my business
system

6.

Flexible and integrative APIs

Sharing, integrating, or fetching APIs become more
straightforward. This implies that outside data sources
and applications can be incorporated. If there is
adequate demand, many cloud-based app providers will
include new features and connectors.

7.

Lightweight containers

A group of separate, self-sufficient services. Contrary to
virtual computers, containers may scale up and down
fast. Infrastructure usage is optimized by scaling moves
to containers.

8.

Self-service, virtual, shared, and

The applications are able to coordinate with the

elastic infrastructure

underlying infrastructure, adapting to the changing load
by dynamically contracting and expanding as required.

9.

Loosely coupled microservices

Despite operating separately from one another, services
from the same application can connect to one another
via the application runtime. They are scaled out with
efficiency and great performance when the elastic
infrastructure and application architectures are properly

integrated.

3. Give Advantages and Disadvantages of My Proposed System

➢ Advantages of system after migrating to cloud:
☺ Due to the iterative nature of DevOps and Agile processes, they are simpler to administer.
☺ The fact that the applications are made up of separate microservices allows for automated
incremental improvement, allowing for the easy addition of new or upgraded capabilities.
☺ End customers won't experience any service interruptions or downtime because of the
improvements because they are non-intrusive.
☺ Scaling is facilitated by the elastic infrastructure.
☺ The procedure closely complies with the pace and rate of innovation demanded in the current
corporate IT environment.


☺ Our development teams could streamline and speed up workflows using the technological freedom
provided by cloud providers.
☺ It became comparatively easy to obtain management tools, performance optimizers, and monitoring.
Containers and micro services may be monitored using tools like DataDog and AppDynamics. For
rapid debugging, there are tools like Zipkin and Open Tracing available.
☺ The availability of multiple management and monitoring solutions lowers the expenses associated
with maintaining technological infrastructure and related services like server-less hosting. Cloud
storage is easily scaleable to accommodate shifting company needs.
☺ By drastically reducing the likelihood of data loss, apps become more dependable and extremely
secure.
➢ Disadvantages
 Although there are more components to maintain, application microservices make enhancements
easier. There is now a collection of modest, distinct services rather than a single, massive program.
 To replace traditional monitoring systems and DevOps pipelines, which are used to manage
microservice architecture, cloud native apps require additional tool sets.

 Rapid development and deployment are made possible by these apps, however not all organizations
can successfully accept this faster pace.

III. Reflections (P7)
1. List of logbooks:
Logbook 1
Time/Phras
e

Task

Status

Issues/difficu Solutions

Learning

Future

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outcomes

Improvemen
t


Week 1:

❖ Analyse and

❖ Completed,

None

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Finding out

Should try to

22/11/2022 –

determine

Identified

the suitable

read and dive

28/11/2022

topic’s

the

topic to

into

Phrase:

feasibility

research

perform

understand

topic is

research on

the project to

feasible

this one.

find research

Research
project start

topic
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❖ Complete

research

Outline the

Should think

finding,

necessary

more open to

objectives and

results has

objectives

find better

deliverables

been

and

objectives

showed in

deliverables

assignment

for research

1

project

❖ Conclude the

None

None

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goal of the

concluding

None

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the goal,

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methodologies

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perform

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Task

Status

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Solutions

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Learning

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outcomes

Improvemen
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Time

Task

Status

Issues/difficult Solutions

outcomes

Improvement

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Should record
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