ITM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sun Microsystems, Social Software, Consumerization

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

Document Summary

Itm 100 - it infrastructure and emerging technologies. Eight hardware trends: the mobile digital platform, consumerization of it and byod, grid computing, virtualization, cloud computing, green computing, high-performance and power-saving processors, autonomic computing. The mobile digital platform: cell phones, smartphones (blackberry, iphone) have assumed data transmission, web surfing, e-mail and im duties, smartphones and tablets are increasingly used for business. Consumerization of it and byod: technology emerges in the consumer market and then spreads into business organizations, byod: bring your own device, new challenges for the it department: security, software availability, ownership. Cloud computing: cloud infrastructure as a service (iaas) Customers use processing, storage, networking resources to run their information systems. They pay for only the computing capacity they use: cloud platform as a service (paas) Customers use infrastructure and programming tools to develop their own applications: cloud software as a service (saas) Customers use software hosted on a vendor"s cloud: a cloud can be private or public.