You and your team are employed by a medium-sized IT company based in Marietta, GA. Your team has the opportunity to get a new client for a new project. The client, Yellow Chicken Credit Union, is a small credit union in the Marietta, Georgia area of the United States. They have been in business for 3 years. They have one main office, and are looking to build another branch within a 10 mile radius. They desire an overhaul of their current infrastructure (which is held in the main office location). Your group of 4 or 5 students will act as this project team for both this assignment as well as this scenario for the potential client (consists of ONE Project Manager and either 3 or 4 technical experts, depending upon the size of your group). Their current infrastructure consists of: 5 HP ProLiant DL360 Gen7 Servers (Xeon processors, 64 GB RAM, Ethernet connectivity) running Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit. Of these servers, 2 are domain controllers for Microsoft Active Directory, one is their web-server running IIS, one is their monitoring server running SolarWinds, which monitors the status of all components of their infrastructure (switches, storage server up/down status, and some hardware failure), and one is their Backup server running Symantec Backup Exec 2012. Each of these servers have two 300 GB 10K SAS 2.5 hard drives installed in a RAID 1 configuration. 2 HP ProLiant DL380 Gen7 Servers (Dual Xeon processors, 128 GB RAM, Ethernet connectivity) running Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit. Of these servers, one is an SQL Server running Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 64-bit. This server has 8 hard drives installed (two 72 GB 10K SAS 2.5 in a RAID 1 configuration for the OS, and 6 900 GB 10K SAS 2.5 hard drives installed in a RAID 50 configuration for the SQL database), and one is their Microsoft Exchange 2010 & Lync 2010 server with 8 hard drives installed (two 300 GB 10K SAS 2.5 in a RAID 1 for the OS, and 6 600 GB 10K SAS 2.5 in a RAID 50 for the Exchange & Lync software). 1 Quantum SuperLoader3 LTO5 Tape Library connected via iSCSI to the HP ProLiant DL360 Gen7 Backup server. 2 Cisco Catalyst 48-port 2960X Ethernet switches (both in their server room: one is connected to those 7 servers mentioned above, and the other is a spare that is currently turned off, but can be used as a backup in case the other 2960X switch goes down). 1 Cisco Catalyst 24-port 2560X Ethernet switch that connects their 10 branch terminals/systems together. Their branch terminals/systems are HP z420 workstations (Xeon processors, 8 GB RAM) running Microsoft Windows 7 64-bt. They are great working order, with no issues reported. All servers and terminals are running Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection. Yellow Chicken has a 3rd-party company that takes care of physical security to the bank, as well as provides all security cameras and storage for the camera footage. They also have an ISP that provides outbound connectivity for this branch, as well as a firewall Objective Your objectives of this research project is to: Come up with a name, mission, and vision for your IT company Present a plan to overhaul their infrastructure, with the following required goals in mind: Implement a new IDS/IPS Create a new website for their customers Upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2016 and Skype for Business 2015 Provide more speed and capacity in their SQL Server Further analyze any requirements not specified Provide a cost-breakdown analysis of all equipment and software needed to perform this upgrade Create a WBS that will be shared with your internal team for these tasks Create an overall current risk assessment that you will present to the client during the initial meeting Propose a schedule to this client for the overall project Yellow Chicken is concerned about possible attacks as they continue to grow. Also they are considering building their new website themselves, as two of their employees have experience in web development. They have no hard-set timeline in mind, and are open to hear your ideas. Their max budget is $225,000 (includes procurement of hardware and labor costs). Your company can choose what vendor the hardware (if any) is procured from. Your company has to convince Yellow Chicken to choose them for this project, as this would be the start of a great relationship. In addition to the main objectives mentioned above, anything else you can think of that would improve efficiency and operations will be considered as long as there is money left over. For the Research Project Deliverables: Research Project Charter (due March 12, 2017 by 11:59 PM) Submit objectives #1 and #2 in ONE document (write this document as you are presenting to me, as well as the potential client, Yellow Chicken). I will respond back appropriately, and provide feedback. Also provide a breakdown of each of your team members roles in this project. Research Project Check-In (due April 23, 2017 by 11:59 PM) Submit an outline of what your team has done so far for objectives #3-7 (at least ONE document, written as if you are presenting this to me as well as the potential client, Yellow Chicken). I will provide feedback. Research Project Final Submission (due May 4, 2017 by 11:59 PM) A final document, fine-tuning all objectives as well as including a Gantt Chart of YOUR groups time spent on this project.