ITM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Apache Hadoop, Virtual Machine, Mobile Computing

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 100
• Professor: Morteza Zihayat Kermani

Document Summary

Definition : it infrastructure emcompasses more than tangible systems like hardware used on computers but also the non-tangible side of it like software. Softwares are used to collect and analyse data which is part of software infrastructure of the organization. They are connected to serve a role in the management levels, they are implemented in many different components in the it business so the software infrastructure is to serve objectives of the organization. Connection between firm it infrastructure and business capabilities. Ex: amazon provides people with service using software infrastructures without it they can"t provides customers with a service. It infrastructure evolved over time it started around 1940-50. General purpose mainframe to personal computer to client server to enterprise computing to cloud and mobile computing. Technology has helped evolved it to reach the levels were at right now. Mainframe tries to have a computational component for a limited amount of computers.