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Supporting Student Notes:

• Along with cloud services, providers may also offer a set of optional managed and professional services. Management of the server, infrastructure
software, storage, security and other network devices is what providers usually offer as part of their managed services. Professional services would
include services related to hosting like capacity planning, security auditing, performance testing evaluation of competitive IaaS products, migration of
data and users to the service, management of service levels and configuration changes tailored for a particular vertical market.

Cisco Cloud Strategy Service:

• The most important question an enterprise should ask when contemplating a cloud computing initiative is: What can cloud
computing do for my business in terms of controlling costs, delivering a return on investment (ROI), and affecting processes?

• The Cisco Cloud Strategy Service employs ROI tools and in-depth analysis of your current architecture and technology choices
– with a primary focus on security – to help you determine the most appropriate cloud strategy and architectural options. It
also helps assess your architectural options for real cloud uses, such as disaster recovery and computing as a service.
Additionally, this service helps you evaluate data center applications and dependencies, as well as management tools and
operations management approaches involved in a cloud transition.

• Unlike a device- or application-level only approach to security, Cisco takes a comprehensive architectural approach. Security
is integrated into every layer of the