CASE STUDY: Dress4Win
Company Overview: Dress4Win is a web-based retail company that helps users organize their wardrobes.
Current Environment: Colocated data center. Tomcat app servers, Nginx web servers, MySQL databases, Redis caching. 100TB of image data on SAN.
Business Requirements: Migrate to cloud to handle seasonal spikes (Black Friday). Reduce CapEx. Enable rapid prototyping.
Executive Statements: CEO: 'Innovate faster, stop worrying about servers.' CFO: 'Move to OpEx. Ensure PCI-DSS compliance.' CTO: 'Modernize stack but migrate quickly first.'
Technical Requirements: Secure hybrid connectivity during migration. PCI-DSS compliance. Automated scaling. CI/CD for microservices.
Constraints: Migration must be completed before Q4 holiday season (6 months). Limited budget for refactoring during initial migration.
QUESTION:
Given the CTO's statement and the 6-month constraint, which migration strategy should you recommend for the initial phase?
GCP PCA · Question 07 · Network Topology
CASE STUDY: Dress4Win
Company Overview: Dress4Win is a web-based retail company that helps users organize their wardrobes.
Current Environment: Colocated data center. Tomcat app servers, Nginx web servers, MySQL databases, Redis caching. 100TB of image data on SAN.
Business Requirements: Migrate to cloud to handle seasonal spikes (Black Friday). Reduce CapEx. Enable rapid prototyping.
Executive Statements: CEO: 'Innovate faster, stop worrying about servers.' CFO: 'Move to OpEx. Ensure PCI-DSS compliance.' CTO: 'Modernize stack but migrate quickly first.'
Technical Requirements: Secure hybrid connectivity during migration. PCI-DSS compliance. Automated scaling. CI/CD for microservices.
Constraints: Migration must be completed before Q4 holiday season (6 months). Limited budget for refactoring during initial migration.
QUESTION:
How should you design the hybrid connectivity to securely transfer the 100TB of image data and maintain database replication during the migration?
Answer options:
Use a single Cloud VPN tunnel over the public internet.
Ship the data using Transfer Appliance and use public IPs for database replication.
Provision a Dedicated Interconnect between the colocated data center and Google Cloud.
Use VPC Peering to connect the on-premises network to Google Cloud.
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