CIS 2050- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 108 pages long!)

• School: App State
• Department: Computer Information Systems
• Course: CIS-2050
• Professor: Dr.Ed Hassler

Document Summary

Internet: currently the fastest-growing form of computing- worldwide spending on public cloud services is growing at a 19. 4% compound annual growth rate pg 173. Law of mass digital storage: the amount of data being stored each year doubles, cost of storing digital info is falling exponentially at a rate of 100% a year. Declining communication costs and the internet: exponential growth in size of the internet ( 3. 5 billion internet users worldwide, directly causes declining cost of internet and communications. Standards and network effects: technology standards: (table 5. 1 pg 177) specifications that establish the compatibility of products and the ability to communicate in a network, unleash powerful economies of scale and result in price declines. B) operating system platforms: corporate servers, windows server: provides enterprise-wide operating system and network se(cid:325)(cid:362)ices a(cid:290)d appeals to o(cid:325)ga(cid:290)izatio(cid:290)s seeki(cid:290)g wi(cid:290)do(cid:363)"s- based it infrastructures, unix: scalable, reliable, and much less expensive than mainframe operating systems.