SDN and IBN Assignment (Due Week 4)

Software-defined networking (SDN) and intent-based networking (IBN)  offer an ability to revolutionize the modern network  architecture. Both concepts are relatively new, and your chief  technology officer (CTO) has only heard them in passing. In fact, she  pawned them off as the new “marketing fad” dressed up as a new concept.  Since you have researched both technologies, you understand this is not a  fad. When used in combination with virtualization and cloud computing,  you know SDN and IBN could revolutionize how the organization operates,  providing for reduced costs, efficiency, better management of the  network assets, and security. 

However, you need to develop a white paper for the Caduceus CTO to  highlight these benefits. Given the CTO has only heard the term in  passing, you must describe in this white paper, the SDN and IBN  concepts, their benefits, and what it would take for the organization to  implement.

Forming Your Teams 

In addition to submitting your individual white paper here in the SDN  and IBN Assignment, you will also begin to work with your team for the  upcoming collaborative projects.  You should meet your team, brainstorm  ideas for your white paper together, and begin planning your upcoming  work.

Writing Your Paper

After you introduce yourself to your team and brainstorm ideas for this assignment, refer to the company highlights document for more details about Caduceus.

In your white paper, use additional sources of information but also  describe the concept in layman’s terms. Use visuals where appropriate.  Describe how an SDN/IBN architecture would look different than network  architectures we have traditionally deployed. Compare and contrast the  network architectures and discuss the pros and cons of each. 

The paper should include the following sections:

• introduction to software-defined networking (SDN) (discussed in Week 3)
   
• introduction to intent-based networking (IBN) (discussed in Week 4)
   
• discussion on how virtualizing the desktop and now back-end infrastructure are complementary and related 
   
• discussion of how SDN and IBN are related

Company Highlights

●The organization currently maintains 2,000 Microsoft Windows desktop computers for the workforce. As you recall, these desktop computers were about to be refreshed. The organization is currently considering the Dell Optiplex series. Specifically, each computer would have a Intel Core i5 processor, run Microsoft Windows 10, contain 8GB DDR4 RAM, and have a 256GB solid state drive. The rough estimate for each PC is $1,250, which equates to a $2,500,000 upgrade cost to the organization.●Microsoft Office runs on each of these computers. The license fee for each computer is $150, which equates to a $300,000 outlay. The organization typically upgrades all PCs with the latest version of Microsoft Office when it is released.●The organization used multiples instances of Oracle Database. These databases are distributed across 10 Dell PowerEdge servers. These servers cost a minimum of $2,159  each, for a total cost of $21,580.●The organization maintains an additional 20 Dell PowerEdge servers for a variety of reasons to include email, file backup, remote access, etc. The total cost to refresh each of these servers is $3,000 for a total cost of $60,000.●The organization maintains various networking devices. The total cost of this equipment is $3,000,000 and yearly refresh costs are $750,000.●The organization maintains a suite of network security hardware and software solutions. They include a DMZ configuration, multiple firewalls, VPN hardware, antivirus solutions, intrusion detection and protection devices, and log management solutions. The total yearly hardware and software costs for the organization cybersecurity efforts are $2,000,000.●The organization also allows users to access the network via their company-issued Android phones, or iPads. Employees receive a mobile device with VPN software installed so that they may remotely access company systems when they are at home, or traveling.●Because this is a notional example and assignment, you may make further assumptions about the organization IT environment. There is no need to ask your instructor for permission. Simply make explicit your assumptions in the white paper. For example, you are free to assume the number of IT professionals, their specialties, and more importantly the cost to run the IT department.

Respond to each peer initial post and question at the end with a response about 3-4 sentences long.

Peer # 1

Unethical conduct remains a tireless issue in nonprofits and for-profits alike. To enable organizations to take care of that issue, the creators look at the components that impact moral direct, the ethical issues that emerge particularly in altruistic organizations, and the most ideal approaches to advance ethical conduct inside organizations. 

Raising money Professionals invests a ton of time and vitality on the issue of rate-based pay, Fundraisers in the magnanimous division ought to be propelled by the missions of their organizations, not without anyone else’s input pick up. Rate based pay can bring about pledge drives profiting from gifts to the organization. Making an individual profit ought to never be what spurs a pledge drive to evoke gifts. Protection issues encompassing the correct utilize, recording and conveyance of giver information are a noteworthy worry for nonprofits. It additionally can be a test for specialists who may have numerous customers in a similar group. 

To stay away from ethical issues organizations ought not get engaged with circumstances with blessings that would lead them to bargain these qualities. Inquire as to whether making a specific move would trade off your central goal and ponder gravely the organization, and on the off chance that it could adversely affect the general population you serve (Santicola, 2018).

Cause-related marketing 

Cause-related marketing is one of the quickest developing business marketing procedures in North America. Progressively in this time of worldwide rivalry, organizations must battle for buyer acknowledgment and reliability. Just offering a quality item or administration does not ensure achievement in the twenty-first century. Organizations must search for inventive approaches to separate themselves in the market. One effective system is cause-related marketing. Association with a beneficial cause pulls in purchasers, who when looked with generally measure up to items or administrations, pick one that affects an issue they think about. You require just think about The Body Shop or Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream to perceive how effective cause-related marketing can be for an organization in a swarmed commercial center. 

As a non-profit or philanthropy, your organization gives the cause that numerous organizations wish to cooperate with. This layout is gone for one organization, making a fruitful union with a common reserve organization that needs to connect its item with your cause. Our examination finds extensive help for a cause-related marketing effort between a non-profit or philanthropy and a shared store organization. 

For the non-profit or philanthropy, a cause-related marketing association with a shared reserve organization builds up another wellspring of income for your organization. This is vital in a period of government reductions and developing project needs. Be that as it may, to be fruitful, your relationship should be estimated in more courses than essentially by how much cash you get. Similarly, imperative is the expanded chance to advance your cause that originates from a noteworthy marketing effort. You will have the capacity to raise the profile of your own organization and fortify your image with an imperative statistic gathering of Canadians. At last you will have a chance to uncover a shared reserve organization to your issues, values and ethical worries as you work in association toward a shared objective (Tessa, 2002).

Information About Major Gift Prospects 

Directing a sales battle resembles propelling a ship and controlling the vessel through waters. A team of educated, conferred experts plans, explores, sails and docks the vessel. The battle pioneers oversee this ship, while the donors are its travelers. The foundation of this vessel is the ship’s bottom. An organization’s advancement exertion is the bottom—the spine stretching out from bow to stern with the greater part of the ship’s structures appended—while the improvement proficient is the controlling power. All gathering pledges projects and crusades are predicated upon three key components: connections, a case for help and collaboration. To begin with, by developing associations with its donors, an organization can effectively fabricate its giving base, particularly in its real blessing fragment. Second, a philanthropy will produce expanded giving by plainly conveying its needs and by offering innovative routes for donors to help the mission. Third, an organization can most viably build up these connections and impart its case for help through a committed sales group. 

The information would be the most imperative to get is donors information because Donors, regardless of whether establishments, organizations or people, don’t as a rule make huge magnanimous commitments until the point when the philanthropy has earned their trust and regard. A nonprofit organization by and large can track that trust in the relationship through benefactor reliability (Calhoun, 2004).

Peer # 2

Managing information and utilizing fundraising software is not only an effective way for nonprofits to track and preserve donor information it can help establish donor loyalty along with making it easier to solicit new or repeat donations.  The data that is assembled in the fundraising software are potentially sensitive and confidential and the agencies have an ethical responsibility to ensure the data is sheltered.  This responsibility can be revealed in a set of principles known as “A Donor Bill of Rights.”  The main goal of the Donor Bill of Rights is to strengthen the relationship between donors and organizations though following a guideline of conduct.  One of the pillars of the Donor Bill of Rights states, “….information about their donations is handled with respect and with confidentiality (Petty, 2008).”  Ethical considerations should be taken by the nonprofit and are as follows.  If a donor provides information they should be made aware of how that information is being utilized and who will be using the facts.  This dialogue should be seen in a disclosure section.  Donors should have the right to refuse to provide certain informational points based on the acknowledgements described in the disclosure section.  Handling information with respect also means that once a donor makes available the information it is used in the way designated by the organization in the disclosure section.  

           Cause-related marketing is the partnership of corporate and nonprofit organizations.  Hopefully the collaboration brings mutual benefits for either side.  A corporation will use the nonprofit name and reputation, their positive connotation, to try and increase sales and/or services while the nonprofit gains additional funding through a portion of the sales profit being donated to the organization.  Here is a small level example, a local restaurant will give 5% of the sales of a bill by a customer to a local charity organization if they dine at the restaurant on a certain day/time.  As a result the restaurant has increased traffic and sales while the local charity receives monies because of the event.  The restaurant will hopefully also bring in new customers that would that have not tried their restaurant in the first place and may continue to come back.  The charity will hopefully have more funding then they did have and if the event is successful the restaurant may be willing to continue to have such events.  Caused-related marketing is a controversial approach because this relationship does not traditionally evoke the “spirit of goodness.”  Corporations could be using nonprofits and the desire for donors to be a part of something larger than themselves while increasing the company’s profits, or it is not truly a philanthropic endeavor for the corporations (Weinstein, 2017).  Another negative attribution that can be associated with cause-related marketing is the effect on a brands’ reputation.  If a corporation or nonprofit does not pick a good partner the others reputation could be threatened or destroyed.  

           Finding major gift givers or major gift prospects is vital to the success of major gift fundraising.  Mining for gift givers will be easier if specific data is gathered about the prospects to help in the potential procurement of funding.  This will allow nonprofits to effectively plan, implement, complete, and repeat good fundraising events and/or activities.  Information that should be collected includes how prospects are connected to the nonprofit’s mission, what do prospects like to do or participate in, what they may be able to donate, and who could they refer to the cause.  It is a good idea to learn about the relationship with an organization because this will identify donor loyalty or how much they invested, which also goes along with knowing about interests and hobbies because forming fundraising events that donors would actually want to participate in leads to success.  The events will not work if no one wants to attend thus no one shows up resulting in no funding coming in.  Finally it is important to know what donors will possibly donate so that you can align the different levels of major gift giving appropriately.  It is safe to say that donors will not want to attend an event if the gift levels are out of reach for themselves or possibly those they would bring along with them to the fundraising occasions.  Donor referrals can also be exponentially necessary to expand your donor pool, increasing your major gift collecting abilities in the future (Weinstein, 2017).  

Question:

What actual practices can nonprofits use to increase the likelihood that data will be managed ethically by staff and volunteers?

In scenario 2 provided, the mother presented her 6- month old child, and upon diagnosis, it is discovered that the baby has cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease that affects the lungs and the digestive system. The defective gene that is primarily responsible for this condition leads to thicker and stickier mucus.

Cystic fibrosis is caused by mutations in the gene that produces the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein. Genetics play a vital role in causing Cystic fibrosis as it occurs when one has an inherited condition in which one gene is defective from both of their parents (Férec & Scotet, 2020).

The child presented various symptoms, which include swollen belly and tasting “salty.” The swollen stomach can be significantly attributed to insufficient pancreatic enzymes due to the inflamed and blocked pancreas; this results in late gastric emptying and slow gut transit. On the other hand, the baby tasted salty because of the problem associated with the transportation of chloride across the cell membrane leading to the possibility of higher levels of chloride (as salt) in sweat (Farrell et al.,2017).

The infant experiences discomfort after eating, and inadequate weight occurs due to the enzymes in the digestive system. Mucus becomes sticky, blocking the ducts in the pancreas preventing the enzymes from reaching the small intestines to digest food (Farrell et al.,2017). The undigested food in the intestines can cause pain, cramping, gas, and either loose, greasy, floating stools or constipation and blockages.

The cells involved in this process are the epithelial cells. The condition affects the secretory glands making mucus and sweat glands disrupt the normal functioning of epithelial cells since they make up the sweat glands in the skin and lining the passageways inside the lungs, liver, pancreas, and digestive systems.

Race and ethnicity are some of the characteristics that affect the prevalence of Cystic fibrosis. Some reports evidenced CF prevalence differs depending on ethnicity. For instance, the incidence in Native Americans, whites, and black individuals is 37.2, 38.8, and 17.1 per 100,000, respectively (Paz-y-Miño et al.,2020).

It is important to note that the mother’s concern for reproduction is valid and considered a risk factor. It is the case since the mother is a carrier of the cystic fibrosis gene.

Please Note

APA format.

At least 2 references not more than 5 Years

More than 100 words excluding refences

Create an article that could be shared online that defines key terms, explains fundamental concepts, and shares relevant examples as to why domestic businesses should consider expansion into global markets. The article should have a brief introduction that explains what readers will gain from the post, a body that provides content supported with textual evidence from the course resources, and a conclusion that summarizes key takeaways for the reader.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

• Types of Business Environments: Differentiate between domestic and international business environments by defining and providing key characteristics of each type, using supporting evidence.
• Example Organizations: Identify examples of domestic and international organizations and explain how they meet the criteria for each type of organization, using supporting evidence.
• Benefits of Expansion: Explain the key benefits of international and global expansion for domestic businesses, providing specific examples and using supporting evidence.
• Ethical Considerations: Explain the role of ethics in making business decisions regarding expansion to a new market and how ethical decision-making frameworks can be used to help make these decisions. Use supporting evidence as appropriate.

Guidelines for Submission

Submit your article as a Word document between 350 and 500 words in length. Use APA formatting and cite your sources according to APA style.

This assignment is a little different than the first in that you, as the writer, has less freedom. At some point, you will need to write a letter of application and submit a resume. You might be applying for a job, an internship, a scholarship, to work in a professor’s lab, or any number of things. For this assignment, find or invent something that requires a letter of application and a resume. You should always have an updated resume on hand anyway (in academia, we call this a cv or curriculum vitae). Precision and appearance are important. How do you make yourself stand out among hundred of other applicants. The letter and resume work together, but do not repeat each other–they must complement each other. They must be appropriate for whatever it is that you are applying for. 

Do some research. What does a good letter look like? What must it contain? Can you be creative with your resume? or must you be more traditional? University career center web sites often have good examples and tips. Take a look at the CSUF Career Center website, but also look at others. My alma mater, the University of Iowa has some really good examples, as does Ohio State University’s career center.