The XYZ Corporation is a global manufacturer (XYZ makes“widgetsâ€) which employs 25,000 employees in the USA and another25,000 employees in Europe, Asia and Africa.  In lightof recent market successes by their competitors, the CEO of XYZ isconsidering moving the corporation’s entire voice and datainformation infrastructure into a Virtual PrivateNetwork (VPN, see pages 269 and 271 in the Laudontextbook) subscription service that is owned and maintained by apublic Internet provider. In other words, XYZ is moving all of itscorporate databases, software applications and voice communicationto a 3rd party Cloud platform, including most of its ITactivities as well . Â
Discuss some of the key issues and risks to consider in order todetermine whether the CEO’s planned move to the Cloud will provideXYZ with a significant competitive advantage overits competitors.
