.................................................................................. 3 Virtualization Approaches .................................................................................................................... 4 Virtualization for Server Consolidation and Containment ........................................................... 7 How Virtualization Complements New-Generation Hardware .................................................. 8 Para-virtualization ................................................................................................................................... 8 VMware’s Virtualization Portfolio ........................................................................................................ 9 Glossary ..................................................................................................................................................... 10 2 VMWARE WHITE PAPER Virtualization Overview Introduction Among the leading business challenges confronting CIOs and IT managers today are: cost-effective utilization of IT infrastructure; responsiveness in supporting new business initiatives; and flexibility in adapting to organizational changes. Driving an additional sense of urgency is the continued climate of IT budget constraints and more stringent regulatory requirements. Virtualization is a fundamental technological innovation that allows skilled IT managers to deploy creative solutions to such business challenges. ...
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...ISYS104 Tutorial – week 6 Review Questions 1. What is IT infrastructure and what are its components? Define IT infrastructure from both a technology and a services perspective. • Technical perspective is defined as the shared technology resources that provide the platform for the firm’s specific information system applications. It consists of a set of physical devices and software applications that are required to operate the entire enterprise. • Service perspective is defined as providing the foundation for serving customers, working with vendors, and managing internal firm business processes. In this sense, IT infrastructure focuses on the services provided by all the hardware and software. IT infrastructure is a set of firm-wide services budgeted by management and comprising both human and technical capabilities. List and describe the components of IT infrastructure that firms need to manage. Students may wish to use Figure 5-10 to answer the question. IT infrastructure today is composed of seven major components. • Internet Platforms – Apache, Microsoft IIS, .NET, UNIX, Cisco, Java • Computer Hardware Platforms – Dell, IBM, Sun, HP, Apple, Linux machines • Operating Systems Platforms – Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, Mac OS X • Enterprise Software Applications – (including middleware), SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Microsoft, BEA • Networking/Telecommunications – Microsoft Windows Server, Linux, Novell, Cisco, Lucent...
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...Information Technology Infrastructure P A R T II 4 IT Infrastructure: Hardware and Software 5 Foundations of Business Intelligence: Databases and Information Management 6 Telecommunications, the Internet, and Wireless Technology 7 Securing Information Systems Part II provides the technical foundation for understanding information systems by examining hardware, software, databases, networking technologies, and tools and techniques for security and control. This part answers questions such as these: What technologies and tools do businesses today need to accomplish their work? What do I need to know about these technologies to make sure they enhance the performance of my firm? How are ISBN 1-269-41688-X these technologies likely to change in the future? 107 Essentials of Management Information Systems, Tenth Edition, by Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon. Published by Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2013 by Pearson Education, Inc. IT Infrastructure: Hardware and Software LEARNING OBJECTIVES C H A P T E R 4 STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES After completing this chapter, you will be able to answer the following questions: 1. 2. What are the components of IT infrastructure? What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies used in business? What are the major types of computer software used in business? What are the most important contemporary hardware and software trends? What are the principal issues in...
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...and each specializes in one or more cloud services. These services are Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The first cloud service, Software as a Service (SaaS), is arguably the most well-known. SaaS allows the use of an application or app by countless users in any location in the world. The benefit to this technology is that when a user needs access to a particular software program they do not have to be at any one location (Microsoft, 2012). Microsoft 365 is an example of SaaS and is subscription based. Users login to the program from any device with an internet connect and are able to save documents and files on the cloud network rather than or along with their device’s hard drive. Another type of SaaS is Symantec backup services. Symantec offers complete back up services so that other businesses do not need to invest in expense hardware. This is vital to small businesses who cannot afford the expensive infrastructure. Symantec’s service backs up on a set schedule ensuring consistency (Symantec, 2013). SaaS has numerous benefits, one of the most important being lower expenses. SaaS allows businesses to save files as well as run programs on a host’s server. This lowers expenses for businesses as they do not have to invest as much in costly hardware. They also are able to reduce energy consumption as they are not running their own hardware and cooling systems. Another financial benefit is companies utilizing...
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...Managing Information System Infrastructure Issues Iris Goldston CMGT 445 Charlie Neuman May 4, 2013 Abstract Managing an Information System Infrastructure is a difficult task that involves many facets and therefore many possible issues. An extreme advance in information technology is enabling business to have many opportunities. The advancement has brought about many challenges from obsolete hardware and software issues such as when to upgrade and how to ever increasing need for storage space. Energy consumption to support the new technology is expensive and therefore affects the bottom line of any business. The challenge to consume less energy and save money is an important concern, especially when going green builds consumer loyalty. As the need to keep up with new technology to keep or gain a competitive advantage, companies have to decide whether to build, rent, or simply maintain a facility to support its hardware. And finally, as with any business supply and demand fluctuates and with this comes the question of how to scale the power uses of an IS infrastructure. Configuration and Preventative Maintenance Configuring an Information System (IS) infrastructure involves hardware, software, communications and collaborations networks, database, human resources, and security. Preventative maintenance should include flexibility, strategic, and tactical planning. The hardware is all monitors, servers, mainframes, keyboards, desktops, and in some cases mobile...
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...Chapter 4 “IT Infrastructure: Hardware and Software” Review Questions 1-5 1. What are the components of IT infrastructure? • Define information technology (IT) infrastructure and describe each of its components. IT infrastructure consists of the shared technology resources that provide the platform for the firm’s specific information system applications. Major IT infrastructure components include computer hardware, software, data management technology, networking and telecommunications technology, and technology services. 2. What are the major computer hardware, data storage, input, and output technologies used in business? * Computer Hardware: Mainframes, midrange computers, PC’s, workstations, and supercomputers. * Data Storage: Magnetic disk, optical disc, magnetic tape and storage networks. * Input devices: Keyboards, computer mice, touch screens (including those with multitouch), magnetic ink and optical character recognition devices, pen-based instruments, digital scanners, sensors, audio input devices, and radio-frequency identification devices. * Output devices: Display monitors, printers, and audio output devices. • List and describes the various type of computers available to businesses today. * Mainframes are a large-capacity, high-performance computer that can process large amounts of data very rapidly. * Midrange computers are servers computers are specifically optimized to support a computer network, enabling users to share files...
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...Chapter 5 IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies As information becomes a valuable resource of a digital firm, the infrastructure used to care for it takes on added importance. We’ll examine all of the components that comprise today’s and tomorrow’s IT infrastructure and how best to manage it. 5.1 IT Infrastructure When you mention the phrase “information technology infrastructure,” most people immediately think of just hardware and software. However, there is more to it than just those two. In fact, the most important and often most-ignored component is that of services. Integrating all three components forces a business to think in terms of the value of the whole and not just the parts. Including all three components in any discussion of IT infrastructure truly fits the cliché that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Defining IT Infrastructure If you define a firm’s IT infrastructure in terms of technology you limit the discussion to the hardware and software components. By broadening the definition to that of service-based, you are then bringing into the discussion the services generated by the first two components. Also, you are including the persware element that we discussed in Chapter 1. As technology advances the types of hardware and software available, it becomes more critical for the firm to focus on the services that a firm can provide to its customers, suppliers, employees, and business partners. To round out the list of IT infrastructure components...
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...eBay Inc.: A Case Study of Organizational Change Underlying Technical Infrastructure Optimization Nicole Schuetz*, Anna Kovaleva* and Jonathan Koomey**, *Stanford Graduate School of Business & Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University **Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance and Stanford University Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford University Stanford Law School Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way Stanford, CA 94305 September 26, 2013 http://www.law.stanford.edu/organizations/programs-and-centers/steyer-taylor-centerfor-energy-policy-and-finance/publications Short URL: http://goo.gl/qDf4rp 1 2 eBay Inc.: A Case Study of Organizational Change Underlying Technical Infrastructure Optimization Nicole Schuetz*, Anna Kovaleva*, and Jonathan Koomey** *Stanford Graduate School of Business & Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University **Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford University Executive Summary This work provides a case study of the organizational changes necessary at eBay Inc. to support the development and operation of efficient data center infrastructure, hardware, and software. As a part of this process, the eBay Inc. infrastructure Engineering and Operations team (responsible for the delivery of technical services...
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...model(PaaS), Software- as- a- service model (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service model (IaaS). IaaS is a third party service model which makes use of hardware, software, servers, storage and other infrastructure modules on behalf of the users on the network. IaaS provides the connected users with a web-based service to create, obliviate and administer storage and systems. Security remains a big issue of concern especially because the other service models run on top of the infrastructure layer. PaaS provides hardware and software equipments required for the development of applications to it’s users over the worldwide web. PaaS provides access to Application Program Interfaces( APIs) and other equipments necessary or developing applications without having to install the developing environment. SaaS gives the connected users access to software/ services available on the cloud. SaaS requires the Web Browser to to access the applications hosted by the cloud. Although this concept provides ease in terms of cost- cutting and low management requirement of systems, the data remains vulnerable to unauthorized interference and misuse. This poses a threat to data security which becomes a great concern on multiple levels and dimensions. This paper aims at highlighting each and every threat to data security in general and the possible defense mechanisms/ solutions employed against the same. INTRODUCTION: Cloud computing is defined as the use of new/ existing computer hardware and virtualization...
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...virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device or network resources. In layman's term, virtualization allows you to run an independent operating system within an existing operating system using the existing hardware resources. So if you want to learn another operating system like Linux, you can use virtualization to run Linux on top of the existing operating system. Virtualization is the abstraction of IT resources, separating their physical instance and boundaries from their function. Virtualization has brought important innovation to IT Virtualization concept was first developed by IBM in the 1960s to fully utilize mainframe hardware by logically partitioning them into virtual machines. These partitions will allow mainframe computers to perform multiple tasks and applications at the same time.. During the 1980s and 1990s, desktop computing and x86 servers become available and so the virtualization technology was discarded eventually. Client-server applications and the emergence of Windows and Linux made server computing significantly inexpensive. However, new challenges has surfaced which includes high maintenance and management cost, high infrastructure cost, and insufficient failure and disaster protection that lead to the invention of virtualization for x86 platform. VMWare invented virtualization for the x86 architecture in the 1990s to address the above mentioned problems. In 1999, VMW are introduced a virtualization...
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...products throughout an integrated stack of hardware and software, with every layer designed and engineered to work together according to open industry standards. Fusion Tomo's complete, open, and integrated solutions offer extreme performance at the lowest cost—all from a single vendor. Integrated, industry-specific solutions are engineered to address complex business processes across a wide range of industries. We are the world’s largest provider of enterprise software and a leading provider of computer hardware products and services that are engineered to work together in the cloud and in the data center. Our offerings include Fusion Tomo database and middleware software, application software, cloud infrastructure, hardware systems—including computer server, storage and networking products—and related services. We develop and maintain our products and services to be enterprise-grade, reliable, secure and interoperable while offering customers a choice in deployment models that best meet their information technology (IT) needs. Our customers can subscribe to use many Fusion Tomo software and hardware products through our Fusion Tomo Cloud offerings, or purchase our software and hardware products and related services to build their own internal clouds or on premise IT environments. Cloud computing IT environments, including those offered through our Fusion Tomo Cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings, are...
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..."computing", the meaning gets bigger and fuzzier. Some analysts and vendors define cloud computing narrowly as an updated version of utility computing: basically virtual servers available over the Internet. Others go very broad, arguing anything you consume outside the firewall is "in the cloud", including conventional outsourcing. Cloud computing comes into focus only when you think about what we always need: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Cloud computing encompasses any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, in real time over the Internet, extends ICT's existing capabilities. Cloud computing is at an early stage, with a motley crew of providers large and small delivering a slew of cloud-based services, from full-blown applications to storage services to spam filtering. Yes, utility-style infrastructure providers are part of the mix, but so are SaaS (software as a service) providers such as Salesforce.com. Today, for the most part, IT must plug into cloud-based services individually, but cloud computing aggregators and integrators are already emerging. ______________________________________Cloud computing - The Concept Cloud computing is Internet ("cloud") based development and use of computer technology ("computing"). It is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized...
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... 1.1 Title of the project Access Control Proposal Project 1.2 Project schedule summary The project will be a multi-year phased approach to have all sites (except JV and SA) on the same hardware and software platforms. 1.3 Project deliverables • Solutions to the issues that the specifies location of IDI is facing • Plans to implement corporate-wide information access methods to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability • Assessment of strengths and weaknesses in current IDI systems • Address remote user and Web site user’s secure access requirements • Proposed budget for the project—Hardware only • Prepare detailed network and configuration diagrams outlining the proposed change • Prepare a 5 to 10 minute PowerPoint assisted presentation on important access control infrastructure, and management aspects from each location. 1.4 Project Guides Course Project Access Control Proposal Guide Juniper Networks Campus LAN Reference Architecture 1.5 Project Members Andrew Reed , IT Architect and IT Security Specialist Ricardo Gonzales, Chief Information Officer (CIO) Members of the Technology Staff 1.6 Purpose This project is done as a part of fulfillment of the course IS404 (Access Control, Authentication, and Public Key Infrastructure). It is a proposal for improving IDI’s computer network...
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...Cloud Computing overview advantage and challenges Overview Silver Lining or storm ahead The future of cloud computing Effective use of cloud computing in education institutions Cloud Computing for beginner Cloud computing Challenges and future directions http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110622006602/en/Future-Cloud-Computing-Survey-Reveals-Drivers-Cloud Cloud Computing GAP Task Force http://inews.berkeley.edu/articles/Spring2009/cloud-computing Table of contents 2 0 Relevant Resources 4 0 Relevant Resources 4 1 General guidelines of community design 6 2 Attracting new members 7 2.1 Methods of persuasion of a potential user 7 2.2 Encouraging users to invite friends 8 2.3 Entry barrier 9 2.4 Guidance for new members 9 3 Structure of the community 12 3.1 Member profiles 12 3.2 Member connections 13 3.3 Adding connections 15 3.4 Member reputation 16 3.5 Paid membership 18 3.6 Fake members 18 3.7 Lurkers 18 4 Encouraging user participation 20 4.1 Using uniqueness 20 4.2 Using controversy 20 4.3 Using individual recognition 21 4.4 By discouraging low quality contributions (moderation) 21 4.5 Using goal setting 23 4.6 Using E-Mail notifications 24 4.7 By showing the activity of community 24 5 Stimulating Social Interactions 26 5.1 By common Interests 26 5.3 By common current life transitions 27 5.4 By shared experience 28 5.5 By shared education 29 5.6 By showing the distance 29 5.7 By service: Photo Albums 30 5.8 By service: Profile...
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...Institute – Miami 5/29/2014 IDI cannot continue operating with a neglected IT infrastructure. A plan needs to be prepared to identify every issue with the IT infrastructure. Such plan should describe actions to eliminate or mitigate the risks, and provide a framework within which the improvement, development and delivery of information technology could be increasingly responsive, stable, and secure in the coming years. Some of the upgrades included on that plan are the following: •Network infrastructure should be upgraded to Gigabit Ethernet, considerably increasing network speed •Port speed needs to be increased from 10 Mbps to 100 Mbps •IDI Internet bandwidth should double immediately and significantly increased annually from that point forward •Deteriorating network infrastructure components have to be identified, replaced, and upgraded, and network reliability improved through the implementation of greater redundancy •Digital modems should replace the analog modems, improving reliability and connection speed •Wireless network standards need to be developed and implemented, and wireless access needs to be provided to several other locations •A new central directory needs to be created and developed as the authoritative source for identity information and authentication •A state-of-the-art backup system will be implemented for centralized backup of enterprise systems Upgrading IDI’s software is more than just an economic business decision. It is a matter of security...
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