MIS 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ath, Capacity Planning, Data Center

• School: DePaul University
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 140
• Professor: Kanter Howard

Document Summary

The business benefits of a solid mis infrastructure. Mis infrastructure: includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and mis assets. Backup: an exact copy of a systems information. Recovery: the ability to get a system up and running in the even of a system crash or failure. Disaster recovery plan: a detailed process for recovering information or an it system in the event of a catastrophic disaster such as a fire or flood. Disaster recovery cost curve: charts (1) the cost to the organization of the unavailability of information and technology and (2) the cost to the organization of recovering from disaster over time. Hot site: a separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business. Cold site: a separate facility that does not have any computer equipment, but is a place where employees can move after a disaster.