...BUSN300-1204B-09 Lower Division Capstone Lawrence Hawkins American Intercontinental University Abstract Computers are part of almost everyone’s life. They are use in school, offices, and in small as well as in big companies. It has become a store place for their important data and records. Therefore we need to have something to keep the data in the computer save. Away from dangerous viruses that may corrupt or delete data on your computer, and e-mail program to spread the virus to other computers. My research paper is about the best anti-virus program that can protect your system from any virus. Title of Paper People used computer everyday all day it had become a part of one life, in school, business, home, and in our local stores. From the desk top to the lap top now on the cell iPod we are in touch with the world. Paying bills looking for what is new and just playing games the computer is important to us. Well keep in mind that there are some people that would like to close you (your computer) down. So here come the viruses into your computer and how we have a big problem. Not just in your home computer, but around the world this is a global problem. So we are looking for an anti-virus program that can stop the virus and clear up the computer too. There are so many programs that o the market and we trying to see which one was be the best for us. Some anit-virus program only can do some of clearing up and stopping the virus and other are better than other. Computer...
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...plan conveyed by any President. Under the Clinton plan, most Americans would get health insurance coverage only in regional alliances. “ A company with more than 5,000 full-time employees could operate its own health insurance program outside the alliances. People working at company headquarters would be in the corporate health plan” (Pear, 1993). If there were employees of a large company that worked in another state with 100 or less than they were able to join the local alliance there. The Clinton Healthcare Plan of 1993 would supply additional treatment of helping. “Mr. Clinton said his proposal would provide much more coverage of preventive services than is usually found in private health insurance plans” (Pear, 1993). The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 also known as Obamacare is a United States federal law signed in by President Obama on March 23, 2010. This law, jointly with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act represents the significant regulatory service of the United States healthcare structure since the passing of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. Through this act, hospitals and primary physicians would be able to transform their practices financially, technologically and clinically to operate better health outcomes, lower costs, and improve methods of...
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...Independent Disks. 2. When would you use RAID? Having data on multiple disks helps ensure against data loss in case of a drive failure. If one of the drives fails most levels of RAID allow the user to just replace that one drive while not losing any data. Having multiple drives also allows multiple read and write operations to be going on at the same time, which increases performance. 3. Define the following types of RAID: a. RAID 0 Using two or more disks, RAID 0 utilizes a striped disk array with data broken down and written part to each disk. This increases performance since multiple input / output operations can be carried out at the same time. RAID 0, unlike the other levels of RAID, does not provide any protection against data loss. If one drive goes down, all of the data will be corrupted. b. RAID 1 RAID 1 requires two or more disks to operate, it organizes data into mirrored pairs. When data is written to one of the drives in a mirrored pair, it is automatically written to both drives. That way if one of the two drives fails the user just needs to replace that one drive. It also provides an increase in performance since two read operations can be performed at the same time. Only one write can be performed at a time since the data must be written to both drives. UNIT 2 ASSIGNMENT 1 3 c. RAID 5 Three disks are needed to implement RAID 5, which uses a rotating parity array to store data striped across all available disks. This allows multiple...
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...David, Garth and Randy Katz at the University of California. Initially RAID was created to combine a number of cheaper drives in order to provide high capacity. However today RAID is designed for providing one of the most important, essential and looked-for feature in any system i.e. “fault tolerance” or “failover protection”. Fault tolerance increases the overall efficiency and reliability of the system. This short paper provides a pragmatic overview of RAID in general, the two methods used in RAID to enhance its reliability and performance, pros and cons associated with RAID and a contrast of RAID level 1 and RAID level 5 schemas on the basis of read and write actions. Introduction RAID has a different drive just for replacing the drive that has crashed. This spare drive is called hot spare. This drive can be compared to a spare part that is used during emergency. This spare drive must always be ready and the replacement of the failed part (drive) should be done straightaway. After replacing the failed drive with the hot spare drive it is required that the entire system knows that the spare drive is being used. In addition we should also take a backup of all the data, just in case the spare drive also fails. However, RAID rules the technology used in implantation of secure systems. Physical and logical arrays and disks (drives), mirroring, striping and parity are the major concepts involved in RAID. RAID has an array like structure. Hence RAID has a number of disks that...
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...Deciding which way to start up a business is often a very difficult decision. The pros and cons of each choice must be considered before a decision can be made. First, Betty must decide whether to operate her new business as part of a franchise or not. She has already had offers from franchises that offered to provide her and her staff with any training needed. Other potential benefits from operating as a franchise include a proven recipe for success and access to financing if needed (Wilmington Trust). Some of the disadvantages of operating under a franchise include a lack of independence and a high initial investment (Wilmington Trust). Another option for Betty would be a sole proprietorship. The advantage of this would be that there would be very few rules and regulations that she would have to abide by in regards to the government (Scott, Demand Media). The disadvantage would be that Betty would have very little liability protection (Scott, Demand Media). The risk of her getting sued and losing her assets is much greater with this type of business structure. Another option for Betty would be to open a partnership. The partnership is great as far as ease and simplicity for filing taxes and other legal documents, however, there is very little liability protection in this type of business entity as well (boundless.com). Betty could operate as a corporation and have protection against her personal assets; however, operating as a corporation requires more complicated...
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...environments. When a drive fails on a system, a user can either change the old drive for a new one without having to power down the system or a RAID could be used. All redundancy methods depend on the version of RAID used. Performance of a system will depend on the number of drives used in the array and the controllers and increased performance can only be located when specific versions of RAIDs are used. There is a limit to the rate at which data can be read from or written to a hard disk platter. By implementing a RAID, a single disk will have increased performance when it comes to reading and writing to multiple disks at the same time. RAIDs handle hard disk drive failures in systems. If you hard disk drive fails and you get a non-recoverable read error, RAIDs allow you to be able to access your data by adding redundancy. This is a great advantage because with a RAID in place, you will be able to keep accessing your data even though the HDD it was written on is no longer accessible. Advantages of RAIDs * Allows for the backup of data in a storage array in...
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...Critical Thinking Scenario John Doe ETH/316 August 5, 2015 Critical Thinking Scenario Wyoming's Upper Green River Valley is a crucial link to Yellowstone ecosystem. Every year thousands of animals including Antelope, Elk, and Mule deer, pass through the valley on a long migration from the Grand Tetons to their winter grazing pastures. This valley is also home to the rare Sage-Grouse. The valley is also the home to the vital trout habitat of the headwaters of the Colorado River. People have compared the green valley river environment to the environment of the Serengeti, because of the spectacular variety of wildlife. Locals and environmentalist say it is starting to look like Saudi Arabia because of the natural gas drilling sites. So the question is to drill or not to drill this is what we will discuss in this essay. Scientist and other experts claim that there’s large pockets of natural gas in this geological region and is attracting many natural gas companies to drill and extract this natural gas. Nightline reported an article stating “Experts have estimated that there’s roughly 20 trillion cubic feet of gas here. That would supply the entire nation’s natural gas needs for about a year. The same geological formation that creates a natural corridor for wildlife also holds rich deposits of natural gas, miles beneath the surface. This country’s increasing demand for natural gas coupled with new technology is turning this area into a bonanza for the energy industry...
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...Darrell Shubbie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7zFCWc9Q2c Professor Sison, Troy ITCS104 8 September 2015 Wk4 Assign: Project 2 Business Value of Cloud Computing: Company Description Company Name: W-CONNECT INC. Company’s Mission: The Mission of W-CONNECT Inc. is to value leadership, integrity, quality, customer satisfaction and a diverse and involved team. We put in time and effort to make the best of what we do which is to work together as a global company for the Aerospace leadership. The background where the company began and its core competencies: W-CONNECT INC. is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Albany, New York United States. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. W-CONNECT Inc. manufactures and sells computer hardware and software (with a focus on the latter), and offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to cloud computing. W-CONNECT Inc., has been well known through most of its recent history as one of the world's largest computer companies and systems integrators. With over 433,362 in (2012) employees worldwide, it is one of the largest and most profitable information technology employers in the world today. Since 1992, W-CONNECT Inc. faced a fierce competition. After rethinking our business model, we recognized we need to...
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...this semester I had to replace my old wireless router due to an electrical surge through my Ethernet port from my modem. While looking into the purchase of a new wireless router I came across the Cisco Valet Plus Wireless Router. The purpose of this paper is to provide the manufactures specification for the Cisco Valet Plus Wireless Router, the function, the appearance, the operation, and the pros and cons of this device. I chose the Cisco Valet Plus Router Based on the specifications listed on the products exterior package. What caught my attention were the Data Link Protocol; Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11n, IEEE802.11g, Fast Ethernet, and the data transfer rate 300 Mbps. In today’s day and age it seems the speed and efficiency is very necessary and takes priority in our daily lives. The frequency band is 2.4 GHz. A feature that I have never seen offered in a wireless router is the Anti-Malware protection, Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), URL Filtering, Domain blocking, and Parental control. This is the first wireless router that I have seen that gives instant protection as soon as your network is up and running. No longer are you wondering if your neighbors have gained access to your wireless network because you have not properly secured your wireless access. With the URL filtering, Domain blocking, and Parental control you have the ability to...
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...decision to travel on a particular airline. What airline was it? Response: When thinking about IT concepts that might benefit smaller airlines, a few ideas come to mind. Enterprise collaborative systems, this would allow better communication with employees which would in turn, increase production. When a customer is in need of assistance and the employee is unable to provide a response, instead of trying to contact one person at a time they could broadcast the issue to several employees which would provide multiple angles of aid. Also if a manager needs to relay a message to several employees for example weather delays he could easily accomplish this using an enterprise collaborative system. MIS (management information systems) which provides data to managers to help them make decisions would also benefit smaller airlines. It would provide smaller airlines with the ability to increase production and revenue by reducing things that are rarely utilized. Although there isn’t a particular airlines that I like to travel on, I do decide to fly more instead of driving because IT systems make flying less of a hassle by reducing wait times. Discussion: In his Harvard Business Review article, "IT DOES NOT MATTER,"...
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...Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: The Pros and Cons of Section 703. The FISA Act was created to govern the gathering of foreign intelligence. In 1952, President Thurman established the National Security Agency within the department of defense. The NSA is the premiere signals intelligence agency. In the United States Intelligence Community, agency efforts are channeled through the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The American intelligence community works closely with foreign intelligence agencies, especially on SIGINT matters. The members of the Cold War era UKUSA Agreement (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States) also known as ‘Five Eyes’(FVEY), are partially close collaborators. In the 1950’s the Executive branch was largely in control and unchecked by the Legislative and Judicial branches on Foreign intelligence matters. Some surveillance policies were narrowed due to constitutional concerns. The authority for foreign intelligence was identified in the President’s inherent Article II of the Constitution powers and a key legal check on that authority was the Fourth Amendment. The fourth amendment as interpreted by...
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...Infrastructure Professor Howard Weinraub Unit 3 Assignment May 7, 2013 Twisted Pair Cables is a pair of wires that are twisted together to provide protection against crosstalk and noise that is generated by the adjacent pairs that forms a circuit to can transmit data. There are two basic types of twisted-pair cables, unshielded twisted pair, UTP, and shielded twisted pair, STP (Cisco, 2003). Coaxial Cables have a hollow outer cylindrical conductor that is surrounded by a single inner wire that is made of two conducting elements, copper and a copper braid or metallic foil. The copper conductor is surrounded by a layer of flexible insulation that has a woven copper braid, or metallic foil, that helps to reduce the amount of outside interference. And finally, a cable jacket covers the shield (Cisco, 2003). A fiber optic cable contains strands of glass fibers that is inside of an insulated casing that is designed for long distance and very high bandwidth, gigabit speed, network communications by using pulse of light to carry a signal (Scocco, 2006). Wireless signals are electromagnetic waves that travels through the air. To receive the signals from the access point the computer, or laptop, must have a wireless adapter card, or wireless NIC, installed. Wireless signals use portions of the RF spectrum to transmit voice, video, and data. Satellite radio provides uninterrupted services to millions of listeners around the world without the need of changing channels. It uses...
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...Volcano Disaster Assistance Program: Pros and Cons The Volcano Disaster Assistance Program was formed in 1986 in response to the devastating volcanic mudflow caused by an eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia. The mudflow destroyed the city in 1985, killing more than 25,000 people. Unfortunately, the tragedy was preventable. Better education of the local population and clear communication would have allowed warnings to be received, understood, and acted upon prior to the disaster. Volcanologist is the expert that works monitoring the activity of the volcanoes to prevent any disaster. The volcanologist’s work has direct importance to the lives of people who live near to the volcanoes but also it is a high-risk job for their own lives. There is no room for any mistake. As a result the volcanologist’s job requires an educational preparation and training to develop the functions. In addition, there are another pros and cons of working as a volcano expert and it is my purpose to develop some of them along this essay....
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...major problems in bringing up its new system. Is there a lesson here for organizations seeking to adopt new information technology? What is it? 6. What should Lassiter do now? Case Study 11-1- Vendor-Managed Inventory at NIBCO 1. What was the catalyst for NIBCO to develop a VMI program, and why was it able to respond? 2. Describe what types of transactions are involved in NIBCO's VMI program. 3. What types of benefits have been attributed to the VMI initiative-for both NIBCO and NIBCO's customers? 4. What new initiatives would you recommend that NIBCO pursue next to continue to take advantage of its current IT capabilities? Case Study 11-2- Real-Time Business Intelligence at Continental Airlines 1. Describe "active" data warehousing as it is applied at Continental...
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...individuals and organizations make decisions about the protection and usage of individuals' data, and what are the consequences of those decisions. In this document, we report on the economic implications of the protection and revelation of personal data. In particular, we present the evolution of the economic theory of privacy (Section 2), we examine current privacy-related trade-o s for data subjects and data holders (Section 3), and we highlight the current economic debate on privacy protection (Section 4). 1.1 The Boundaries of the Economics of Privacy Before commencing our analysis, we alert the reader of the boundaries inherent to an eco- nomic approach to the privacy debate. First of all, in the rest of the document our focus will be, primarily, on information privacy - that is, on the issues associated with the collection and usage of individuals' personal information (Westin, 1970). We take this approach be- cause, while privacy is a multi-faceted concept, most of the relevant contemporary economic research focuses on consumers' data . Our focus on informational privacy and consumer data, however, should not be construed as a denial of the existence of other dimensions to the pri- vacy debate, which may be more dicult to capture in economic terms (Solove (2006), for instance, distinguishes between privacy issues associated with the collection, processing, or dissemination of personal data, and privacy issues associated with personal invasions ...
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