ITM 100 Lecture Notes - Adaptive Server Enterprise, Ibm Global Services, Grid Computing

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 100
• Professor: Vikraman Baskaran

Document Summary

The shared technology resources that provide the platform for the firm"s specific information system applications. Includes investment in hardware, software, and services, such as consulting, education, and training: defining it infrastructure: Set of physical devices and software required to operate enterprise. Technology drivers of infrastructure evolution: moore"s law and microprocessing power. The law of mass digital storage: metcalfe"s law and network economics, declining communications costs and the internet. The power of microprocessors doubles every 18 months: computing power doubles every 18 months. The price of computing falls by half every 18 months. Nanotechnology uses individual atoms and molecules to create computer chips and other devices. The amount of digital information is roughly doubling every year. The cost of storage is falling at an exponential rate of 100 percent per year. The value of a network grows exponentially as a function of the number of network members.