ITM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Enterprise Architecture, Backup Software, Data Architecture

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

Document Summary

Goals of enterprise architecture: reduce costs/improve productivity. Improve customer satisfaction: create competitive advantages, generate growth, generate new revenue streams, optimize the supply chain. Global enterprise architecture issues: political and cultural issues as well as technical. Building blocks of ea: data architecture identifies where and how important data, like customer records, are maintained and secured, backup and recovery. Backup an exact copy of a system"s information. Recovery the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure and includes restoring the information backup. Fault tolerance a computer system designed that in the event a component fails, a backup component or procedure can immediately take its place with no lose of service. Failover a backup operational mode in which the functions of a computer component is assumed by another when the first becomes unavailable: disaster recovery.