COMMERCE 2KA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: Grid Computing, Gmail, Consumerization
24 Apr 2016
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A firm"s it infrastructure provides the foundation for serving customers, working with vendors, and managing internal firm business processes. It infrastructure: the shared technology resources that provide the platform for the firm"s specific information system applications. Consists of the physical devices (hardware) and software applications that are required to operate the entire enterprise. It management services: plan, develop, coordinate, manage expenditure, project management, data management services, store and manage corporate data and provide capabilities for analyzing the data. It education services: training for employees and managers. It search and development services: research on future it projects and investments. It standards services: which, when, how, and by whom it to be used. In a multi-tiered client/server network, different levels of servers handle client requests for service. Client/server computing enables businesses to distribute computing work across a series of smaller, inexpensive machines. The result is an explosion in computing power and applications available to firms.
