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IT Infrastructure
• Defining IT infrastructure
• Evolution of IT infrastructure: 1950-2009
• Electronic accounting machine era: 1930-1950
• General-purpose mainframe and minicomputer era:
1959 to present
• Personal computer era: 1981 to present
• Client/server era: 1983 to present
• Enterprise Internet computing era: 1992 to present
• Cloud computing era: 2000 to present
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Hardware Platform Trends And Emerging
Technologies
• While cost of computing is lower, infrastructure costs
have expanded
• The emerging mobile digital platform
• Cell phones, smartphones (BlackBerry, iPhone) have
assumed data transmission, Web surfing, e-mail and IM
duties
• Netbooks: small, low-cost lightweight notebooks
optimized for wireless communication and core
computing tasks
H/W Platform Trends and Emerging
Technologies
• Cloud computing (utility computing)
• Data permanently stored in remote servers, accessed and
updated over the Internet by users
• Purchase computing power and pay as per use (on-
demand or utility computing)
• Reduces risk of over-investment
• Flexible infrastructure
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Hardware Platform Trends and Emerging
Technologies
• Virtualization and multicore processors
• Presents computing resources so that they can be
accessed in ways that are not restricted by configuration
• Simultaneously run more than one operating system on
the same machine
• Increases server utilization rates from 10-15 to 70 percent
of capacity
• Multicore processors: reduced power requirements,
enhanced performance
H/W Platform Trends and Emerging
Technologies
• Grid computing
• Connects geographically remote computers into a single
network to combine processing power and create virtual
supercomputer
• Provides cost savings, speed, agility
• Autonomic computing
• Systems that can configure, optimize themselves, heal
themselves when broken, and protect themselves from
outside intruders
• Similar to self-updating antivirus software; Apple and
Microsoft both use automatic updates
Software Platform Trends and Emerging
Technologies
• Linux and open-source software
• Java is everywhere
• Object oriented programming language
• Platform independent
• Software for enterprise integration
• Data exchange for multiple systems through single software hub
• Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• XML(eXtensible Markup Language): applies self-describing tags to data in web
documents
• Allows automatic transfer of data, manipulation of data and execution of
operations
There are six factors you can use to answer the question, “How much should our firm spend on IT
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