Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the articles The Next 20 Years Are Going to Make the Last 20 Look Like We Accomplished Nothing in Tech (Links to an external site.)(Shontell, 2014) and Ford Promises Fleets of Driverless Cars Within Five Years (Boudette, 2016) and read the chapters listed below in the Limoncelli, Hogan, and Chalup (2017) text:

• Chapter 1: Climbing Out of the Hole
• Chapter 2: The Small Batches Principle
• Chapter 3: Pets and Cattle
• Chapter 4: Infrastructure as Code

In addition to your readings, you will need to do some research on your own in the university library.

For this assignment, you will take on the role of a fictitious system administrator, who was recently hired to join an IT team. Upon your arrival at the organization, you learn that this company was started 5 years ago and needs an IT infrastructure overhaul. While it started out as a single company, it has since expanded not only in its number of locations, but in its use of technology. In fact, a lot of changes in technology have affected how the company is currently performing its daily business routines and processes.

In this written assignment, you will describe how outdated technology affected the company’s growth. You will need to consider the technology that initially was used by the organization, the technology that you will install, and how the new technology will increase the organization’s overall performance. Let your imagination run wild! Pablo Picasso said, “Everything you can imagine is real.” Below you will find a list of current technology at the company.

Current Technology:

• One Netgear Hub with 12 ports
• One PC with Windows XP installed.
• 8 GB of RAM
• 1 802.11 Wireless NIC
• One hard connected printer

In your paper,

• Describe how outdated technology affected the organization.
• Explain how the organizations use of technology can be updated.
• Describe how the company might upgrade their technologies and incorporate future technologies, including your specific suggestions.
• Describe benefits and pitfalls to the upgrades and future technologies you have suggested.
• Recommend the hardware and software upgrades needed based on the company’s three locations and their needs.

The Outdated Technology Paper

• Must be one to two double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style (Links to an external site.) as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word (Links to an external site.).
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper in bold font
    • Space should be between title and the rest of the information on the title page
  • Student’s name
  • Name of institution
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Due date
• Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
• Must use at least two scholarly or credible sources in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for this assignment.
  • To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this Ashford University Library Quick ‘n’ Dirty (Links to an external site.) tutorial,