The rise of computer hardware and networking

technology has significantly impacted business

organizations, leading to the adoption of emerging
trends like mobile digital platforms, grid computing,
virtualization, cloud computing, green computing, and
autonomic computing.

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● The Emerging Mobile Digital Platform
● Consumerization of IT and BYOD
● Grid Computing
● Virtualization
● Cloud Computing
● Green Computing
● High-Performance and Power-Saving Processors
● Autonomic Computing
 THE EMERGING MOBILE DIGITAL PLATFORMS

is a group of technologies and services that let people use

mobile devices like smartphones and tablets to view digital
content, make transactions, or interact with apps.

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 Main Points:

• Accessibility: You can use it anytime, anywhere, as long as you have an internet
connection.
• The user interface has been made better for smaller screens and browsing by
touch.
• App Ecosystem: Supports a wide range of apps made for mobile use, such as e-
commerce apps, games, work tools, etc.
• Real-time information: be able to send users notifications and information in real
time to keep them interested.
• Payment Solutions: These might include ways to pay with your phone, such as
Apple Pay, Google Wallet, etc., so that purchases go smoothly.

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 The new mobile platform also includes small, low-cost lightweight subnotebooks
called netbooks, optimized for wireless communication and Internet access, with core
computing functions such as word processing, and digital e-book readers such as
Amazon’s Kindle with some Web access capabilities. More and more business
computing is moving from PCs and desktop machines to these mobile devices;
managers increasingly use these devices to coordinate work and communicate with
employees.

The Eee PC netbook designed by ASUS weighs only two pounds

and uses a Linux-based operating system to provide wireless
Internet access and a series of open source desktop productivity
tools. Portability, ease of use, and low cost have made netbooks
increasingly popular computing platforms.

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 Consumerization of IT and BYOD

The consumerization of IT is when employees use their own

personal mobile devices, such as laptop computers, tablets,
smart phones, etc. at work, referred to as BYOD.

Many organizations are now allowing employees to

bring their own devices (BYOD), by doing so there will
be some pros and cons.

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 PROS:

- Cost saving: By allowing BYOD, it saves the organization money on purchasing,

maintaining, and upgrading the hardware.

- Increases Flexibility: BY allowing BYOD, employees can work from anywhere,

which in turn increases flexibility and responsiveness.

- Responsibility: Employees would take better care of their personal devices, as

they rely on both personal and professional use.

- Employee satisfaction: BYOD helps boost the performance of the employees, as

they are more confident and satisfied with their own machines.

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 CONS:

- Security concerns: If the devise is lost or stolen, there will be high chances of
data breach.

- Integration Issues: There will be a compatibility issue of BYOD with the firm
software so the IT department must make sure that the BYOD is compatible with
the company software and applications.

- Support: To manage that much of external devices with diverse operating

systems is a tedious job. Providing technical support to the humongous devices is
a very difficult task to execute.

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 GRID COMPUTING

It connects the remote computers to a single computer to act as

a virtual supercomputer by combining the computing power of
all the computers on the grid.

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 Grid computing is useful in the following ways:

a. It saves the cost.

b. It increases the speed of computation by virtualization.
c. It is agile.

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 Why GRID COMPUTING is crucial?

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Efficiency

With grid computing, you can break down an enormous, complex task into multiple subtasks.
Multiple computers can work on the subtasks concurrently, making grid computing an efficient
computational solution.

Cost

Grid computing works with existing hardware, which means you can reuse existing computers. You
can save costs while accessing your excess computational resources. You can also cost-effectively
access resources from the cloud.

Flexibility

Grid computing is not constrained to a specific building or location. You can set up a grid
computing network that spans several regions. This allows researchers in different countries to
work collaboratively with the same supercomputing power.
 How does grid computing work?

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User node

A user node is a computer that requests resources shared by other computers in grid computing. When
the user node requires additional resources, the request goes through the middleware and is delivered
to other nodes on the grid computing system.

Provider node

In grid computing, nodes can often switch between the role of user and provider. A provider node is a
computer that shares its resources for grid computing. When provider machines receive resource
requests, they perform subtasks for the user nodes, such as forecasting stock prices for different
markets. At the end of the process, the middleware collects and compiles all the results to obtain a
global forecast.

Control node

A control node administers the network and manages the allocation of the grid computing resources.
The middleware runs on the control node. When the user node requests a resource, the middleware
checks for available resources and assigns the task to a specific provider node.
 What are the types of grid
computing?

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 Computational grid

A computational grid consists of high-performance computers. It allows researchers to use the

combined computing power of the computers. Researchers use computational grid computing to
perform resource-intensive tasks, such as mathematical simulations.

Scavenging grid

While similar to computational grids, CPU scavenging grids have many regular computers. The
term scavenging describes the process of searching for available computing resources in a network of
regular computers. While other network users access the computers for non-grid–related tasks, the
grid software uses these nodes when they are free. The scavenging grid is also known as CPU
scavenging or cycle scavenging.

Data grid

A data grid is a grid computing network that connects to multiple computers to provide large data
storage capacity. You can access the stored data as if on your local machine without having to worry
about the physical location of your data on the grid.
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 GRID COMPUTING Example:

Meteorologists use grid computing for weather modeling.

Weather modeling is a computation-intensive problem that
requires complex data management and analysis.

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 Virtualization

- refers to the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual)

version of something, including but not limited to a virtual
computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage
device, or computer network resources.

- allows access to computing resources unrestricted by physical

configuration or location, enabling companies to run multiple
operating systems on a single machine.

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 The company, founded in 1998 by Mendel Rosenblum and Diane
Greene, was the first to implement the x86 architecture, offering
software for desktops running Microsoft Windows, macOS, and
Linux. It also develops enterprise digital products for VMware
ESXi.

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 CLOUD COMPUTING

It is the platform where integration of hardware and software capabilities

happens that are virtualized over a network like the Internet. These are
rental based services, anyone can pay as per use. Cloud computing is
gradually shifting firms from fixed IT Infrastructure to cloud-based
infrastructure.

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 It has been widely used in today’s era due to the following
reasons:

a. On-demand services as per the usage.

b. It can be accessed with the standard network and any

devices with the internet like mobile platforms.

c. It can be either private or public.

d. It reduces the cost of IT Infrastructure in the organization.

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 GREEN COMPUTING

It refers to adopting the practices and technologies for manufacturing,

designing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated devices
like keyboards, monitors, storage devices, printing machines, etc. to
minimize the environmental impact.

“Minimizing the computational consumption of power has been

a very high priority. Information technology, which is
responsible for about 2 percent of total U.S. power demand and
is believed to contribute almost 2 percent of the world’s
greenhouse gases. Minimizing the power consumption in data
centers has become both a serious business and environmental
challenge. The Interactive Session on Organizations examines
the said problem.”

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 POWER-SAVING PROCESSORS

To minimize the power requirement by the IT infrastructure, we must use

the most efficient and power-saving processors. The multicore processors,
integrated circuits to which two or more processor cores are attached for
enhanced performance, reduced power consumption, and more efficiency
in performing multiple tasks. These multicore processors reduced the
power requirement and dissipated the heat in a better way.

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 Cooling of Processors

Liquid cooling is a popular method for efficient processor cooling. It

uses a heat pipe or heat sink, with a heat pipe connected to the
processor and a condenser near a fan. Heat from the processor is
transferred to the evaporator, which converts liquid to vapors. These
vapors then travel to the condenser, where they are cooled by a fan.

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 AUTONOMIC COMPUTING

The complexity of computer systems has led to increased IT budgets,

with 40% caused by operator error. Autonomic computing, an industry-
wide initiative, aims to develop systems that can configure, optimize,
tune, heal, and protect themselves, allowing administrators to focus on
core business needs.

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 Four Aspects of Self-Management as They Are Now and Would Be
with Autonomic Computing

:::---MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS---:::Chapter 6

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TRENDS The exploding power of computer hardware and networking technology has | Course Hero

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 QUIZ (15 items)

Coverage:

- Contemporary Software Platforms Trend

- Contemporary Hardware Platforms Trend

IT INFRASTRUCTURE and NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES

 FOR READING IN ADVANCE

1. IN-DEPTH TCP/IP NETWORKING 2. TROUBLESHOOTING NETWORK PROBLEMS

● OSI Model ● Windows

● TCP/IP Protocol Suite ● Ipconfig

● Basic of IP, TCP, & UDP ● Ping and Tracert

● Routing ● DBS

● TCP/IP & Subnetting ● ISP

● Database Logs
● Pfsense

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