Kariki Farm is a flower$-$growing company located in Juja. The company is responsible for cultivating different types of flowers and exporting them to markets in Europe, Asia and America. Kariki Farm has a small data centre at its main site in Juja, where the firm runs its servers and data storage. The firm has $30$ Windows $22$ servers to run its critical workloads. Each Runs $48$ TB of memory, $64$ sockets and $2048$ Logical cores. There are $4$ Red Hat Enterprise Linux $5$ servers running the company website. The company also has a small iSCSI SAN with $100TB$ of storage, which is the main data storage location for the company. The users in the company include management, administrative staff, and regional Kariki Staff in Europe, America and Asia, who use relatively modern personal computers running Windows $11$ or $10$ to connect to the company data centre. The company received a report from cloud consultants recommending using Office $365$ as a SAAS for office productivity, mail and telecommunication purposes. The company has bespoke software for managing its operations, and they recommended it be run as a PaaS service for internal users. They also suggested moving some of the company's computing infrastructure to an IaaS to avoid capital costs. Required:

$1.$The board indicated that it might want to run the company's own private cloud, explain the steps that will be needed to achieve this

$2.$What benefits will the company get from moving to a private cloud

$3.$What are the critical points, other than cost, that the company must consider in migrating from locally hosted infrastructure to an IaaS service provider?

$4.$How will the virtualization of the resources for the company take place? What do you think might be some of the company's resources that will need virtualization?