ITM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bring Your Own Device, Cloud Computing, Networking Hardware

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 100
• Professor: Al Natour

Document Summary

Hardware platform trends the mobile digital platform, consumerization of it and byod, virtualization,cloud computing, green computing,quantum computing. Mobile digital platform: smartphones,netbooks,tablet computers,digital e book readers,wearable devices. Wearable devices: transform the way we live (fitness,healthcare),infotainment(info+entertainment glasses),fashion+military. Consumerization: technology emerges in the consumer market and spreads into business organizations. Byod: (bring your own device) forces businesses and it departments to rethink how it equipment and services are acquired and managed. Virtualization presents computing resources so that they can be accessed in ways that are not restricted by configuration. Allows single physical resource to act as multiple resources( ex run multiple instances of os) Off-load peak demand for computing power to remote, large scale data processing centres. Pay only for the computing power they use, as with an electrical utility. Excellent for firms with spiked demand curves caused by seasonal variations in consumer demand, eg holiday shopping. Saves firms from purchasing excessive levels of infrastructure.