ITM 100 Lecture 5: Class 5

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

Document Summary

Android: an open-source operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, developed by the open handset alliance led by google. Application server: handles all application operations between a use and an organizations back-end business systems. Apps: small pieces of software that run on the internet, on your computer, or on your mobile device that are generally delivered over the internet. Autonomic computing: an industry wide effort to develop systems that can configure themselves, optimize and tune themselves, heal themselves when broken, and protect themselves from outside intruders and self-destruction. Blade servers: computers consisting of only a circuit board with processors, memory, and network connections that are stored in racks. Chrome os: a lightweight operating system for cloud computing using netbooks that are manufactured by google partners such as samsung and acer. Clients: desktops or laptops networked to server computers.