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MIS Bridgette Boyd, Thank you
IT Infrastructure & Emerging Technologies
The importance of this chapter is to appreciate the role of technology infrastructure in the success of an organization.
Learning Objectives:
When you mention the phrase “information technology infrastructure,” most people immediately think of just hardware and software. However, there is more to it than just those two. In fact, the most important and often most-ignored component is that of services. Integrating all three components forces a business to think in terms of the value of the whole and not just the parts.
IT infrastructure truly fits the cliché that “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
If you define a firm’s IT infrastructure in terms of technology only you limit the discussion to the hardware and software components. By broadening the definition to that of service-based, you are then bringing into the discussion the services generated by the first two components. Also, you are including the persware element that we discussed in Chapter 1.
The term infrastructure in an information technology (IT) context refers to an enterprise's entire collection of hardware, software, networks, data centers, facilities and related equipment used to:
1- develop 2- test 3- operate 4- monitor 5- manage and/or 6-support IT services.
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MIS Bridgette Boyd, Thank you