Best Practices for Information System Development

updated on 24/09/2006:
due to the lack of available information online, the scope of the project
has been narrowed to High Availability and Disaster Recovery

This project is to design a model information system (hardware and software) for a mid size company with two satellite branches and several mobile staff members.

The design has to consider in depth the following functional requirements: high availability (24x7) and high performance for users including remote access and mobile workers, high security against hacker and virus, secure and easy to retrieve storage and fast disaster recovery.

The approach must be based on academic considerations as well as commercial practicality.

The student will need to learn or know Microsoft W2003, Mandriva Linux and Citrix Metaframe as the commercial references. We will take a fitness-for-purpose and Total-cost-of-ownership approach, and design the procedure for developing and implementing information systems.

Appeal: the appointed student will be able to meet and mix with various IT consultants once a month in Compucon House to discuss similar issues in seminars hosted by CNZ.

sponsor
Compucon New Zealand (CNZ)
compucon.co.nz

supervisor
TN Chan (CEO, CNZ)
tn@compucon.co.nz

student
Huan-Chun Peng Hsu (a.k.a. Alan)
hpen009@ec.auckland.ac.nz