Information architecture - identifies where and how important information, such as customer records, is maintained and secured.
Information infrastructure - Communications networks and associated software that supports interaction amongst people and organisations. Its the computers and communications lines underlying critical services that society has come to depend on: financial networks, the power grid, transportation, emergency services, government services. It includes the internet and telecommunication networks.
2. Describe how an organisation can implement a solid information architecture.
An organisation can implement a solid information architecture by having a backup and recovery strategy. The three primary areas of information architecture are backup and recovery, disaster recovery and information security. With these three primary areas strong then a solid information architecture.
3. List and describe the five requirement characteristics of infrastructure architecture.
Reliability - High accuracy (low accuracy puts the organisation at risk).
An organisation can implement a solid information architecture by having a backup and recovery strategy. The three primary areas of information architecture are backup and recovery, disaster recovery and information security. With these three primary areas strong then a solid information architecture.
3. List and describe the five requirement characteristics of infrastructure architecture.Reliability - High accuracy (low accuracy puts the organisation at risk).
Scalability - systems ability to meet growth requirements, involves capacity planning.
Flexibility - able to meet changing business demands. Might involve multinational challenges.
Availability - High availability 99.999% uptime. Ensures
business continuity.
Performance - How quickly a system performs a certain task. Growing pressure on systems to be faster.
4. Describe the business value in deploying a service oriented architecture.
The business value in deploying a service oriented architecture is that IT systems can adapt quickly, easily and economically to support rapidly changing business needs. It also allows enterprises to plug in new services or upgrade existing services in a granular fashion and means that a business can respond more quickly and cost-effectively to changing market-conditions.
5. What is an event?
An event is the eyes and ears of the business expressed in technology, they detect threats and opportunities and alert those who can act on the information. Pioneered by telecommunication and financial services companies, this involves using IT systems to monitor a business process for events that matter.
6. What is a service?
A service can be a business task, such as checking a potential customer's credit rating only opening a new account. Services are 'like' software products. They are more like software products than they are coding projects.
7. What emerging technologies can companies use to increase performance and utilise their infrastructure more effectively?
Virtualisation is a framwork of dividing the resources of a computer into multiple execution environments. It is a way of increasing physical resources to maximise in the investment in hardware. VM customers typically save 50-70% on overall IT costs by consolidating their resource pools and delivering highly available machines with VMware and vSphere.
Grid computing is an aggregation of geographically dispersed computing, storage, and network resources, coordicated to deliver improved performance, higher quality of service, better utilisation, and easier access to data. Used by scientific, e-Commerce, technical or engineering projects that require many processing cycles to complete a job.
7. What emerging technologies can companies use to increase performance and utilise their infrastructure more effectively?
Virtualisation is a framwork of dividing the resources of a computer into multiple execution environments. It is a way of increasing physical resources to maximise in the investment in hardware. VM customers typically save 50-70% on overall IT costs by consolidating their resource pools and delivering highly available machines with VMware and vSphere.
Grid computing is an aggregation of geographically dispersed computing, storage, and network resources, coordicated to deliver improved performance, higher quality of service, better utilisation, and easier access to data. Used by scientific, e-Commerce, technical or engineering projects that require many processing cycles to complete a job.
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