IS 3003 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Offshoring, Outsourcing, Open-Source Software

• School: UTSA
• Department: IS - Information Systems
• Course: IS 3003
• Professor: Nasim Talebi

Document Summary

Study online at quizlet. com/_1m81zt: 5 components of it infrastructure, types of. Computers: hardware, software, data management, networking and telecommunications tech, services, personal computers, workstations, servers, mainframes, supercomputer, grid computing, personal. More powerful mathematical and graphics- processing capabilities than a pc. Large capacity, high performance computer that can process large amounts of data very rapidly. Used by airlines to handle thousands of reservations per second. Profit source of ibm: supercomputer: more sophisticated computer used for tasks requiring extremely rapid and complex calculations with thousands of variables, millions of measurements, grid. Power of geographically remote computers connected to single network to act as a. Centralized processing is done by one large central computer: distributed. Architecture processing power is distributed among several locations; multiple computers are linked by a communications network for processing. User point of entry; requests services from a server store and process shared data and perform network management activities.