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Basic Elements of IT Infrastructure

Basic elements of IT infrastructure include data centers, servers, computers, and networking devices. [1] A data center is a physical space where servers and networking equipment are housed and requires access control, cooling, and redundant power. [2] Servers provide services to other computers and users, fulfilling requests from clients. Common types of servers include file, print, web, application, and mail servers. [3] Computers run programs and process data, and come in various forms from supercomputers to mainframes, mini computers, and personal computers like desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Networking devices like hubs, switches, and routers connect computers and allow communication across networks.

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Basic Elements of IT Infrastructure

Basic elements of IT infrastructure include data centers, servers, computers, and networking devices. [1] A data center is a physical space where servers and networking equipment are housed and requires access control, cooling, and redundant power. [2] Servers provide services to other computers and users, fulfilling requests from clients. Common types of servers include file, print, web, application, and mail servers. [3] Computers run programs and process data, and come in various forms from supercomputers to mainframes, mini computers, and personal computers like desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Networking devices like hubs, switches, and routers connect computers and allow communication across networks.

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Basic Elements of IT

Infrastructure
1. Data Center

• Physical space where servers


and network devices are
located
• Requires access control,
cooling, redundant power
supplies, etc.
• Usually organized in racks or
vertical cabinets
• Vary significant in size
System Administrator

• Master of Data
Center
• A person who
knows the whole
operation and
where the cables
are connected
inside the data
center
2. Server

• Is a computer program that provides


services to other computer and their users
• Fulfill request form clients which may be
running on other computers
Category of server

• File Server – functions to share files to with potential users. This was replaced
by google drive, etc.
• Print Server – manages printing requests of all users. You can print through
server.
• Web Server - stores and delivers the content for a website – such as text,
images, video, and application data – to clients that request it.
• Application Server - is a server specifically designed to run applications.
• Mail Server – an application used to handle all of the mails of the users in a
company
• Media Server – server that is used for video streaming, share photographs.
Computer

• is a programmable machine
that is both electronic and
digital. The actual
machinery is hardware; the
instructions and data is
software.
Types of Computer

1. Supercomputer – are the


largest, fastest, most
powerful and most expensive
computers made. It has a
very high efficiency in storing
capacity. Supercomputer can
solve very complex problems
in Nano second. Use to
forecast weather.
2. Mainframe Computer

• Is a high performance computer.


• More than 100 users can operate
mainframes computer at a time.
• mainframes (colloquially referred
to as "big iron") are computers used
primarily by large organizations for
critical applications; bulk data
processing, such as census, industry
and consumer statistics, enterprise
resource planning; and transaction
processing.
3. Mini Computer

• Midrange computers
• Smaller and less
powerful than
supercomputers and
mainframe computers.
• It is usually used for
scientific research,
business transaction
processes.
Personal Computer

• a small computer that contains


a microprocessor as its central
processor.
• Desktop
• Laptop
• Tablets
• Smartphones
Hubs, Switches and Routers

• Hubs are “dumb” devices that pass on


anything received on one connection to
all other connections. 
• Switches are semi-intelligent devices
that learn which devices are on which
connection. 
• Routers are essentially small
computers that perform a variety of
intelligent tasks.

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