1 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Session 7 Infrastructures Sustainable Technologies CMP 117 Business Computing: Concepts &Applications

Chapter 5 Infrastructure: Sustainable Technologies McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2013 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

3 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa CHAPTER OVERVIEW SECTION 5.1 – MIS INFRASTRUCTURE – The Business Benefits of a Solid MIS Infrastructure – Supporting Operations: Information MIS Infrastructure – Supporting Change: Agile MIS Infrastructure SECTION 5.2 – BUILDING SUSTAINABLE MIS INFRASTRUCTURES – MIS and the Environment – Supporting the Environment: Sustainable MIS Infrastructure

4 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa SECTION 5.1 MIS Infrastructures

5 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa LEARNING OUTCOMES 1.Explain MIS infrastructure and its three primary types 2.Identify the three primary areas associated with an information MIS infrastructure 3.Describe the characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure

6 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa THE BUSINESS BENEFITS OF A SOLID MIS INFRASTRUCTURE MIS infrastructure – Includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets – Hardware – Software – Network – Client – Server

7 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa THE BUSINESS BENEFITS OF A SOLID MIS INFRASTRUCTURE Supporting operations – Information MIS infrastructure Supporting change – Agile MIS Infrastructure Supporting the environment – Sustainable MIS infrastructure

8 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa SUPPORTING OPERATIONS: INFORMATION MIS INFRASTRUCTURE Backup and recovery plan Disaster recovery plan Business continuity plan

9 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Backup and Recovery Plan 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 – Fault tolerance – Failover – Failback

10 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Backup and Recovery Plan Disaster recovery plan – A detailed process for recovering information or an IT system in the event of a catastrophic disaster such as a fire or flood Disaster recovery cost curve – Charts (1) the cost to the organization of the unavailability of information and technology and (2) the cost to the organization of recovering from a disaster over time

11 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Backup and Recovery Plan

12 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Backup and Recovery Plan Hot site – A separate and fully equipped facility where the company can move immediately after a disaster and resume business Cold site – A separate facility that does not have any computer equipment, but is a place where employees can move after a disaster Warm site – A separate facility with computer equipment that requires installation and configuration

13 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Business Continuity Plan Business continuity planning (BCP) – A plan for how an organization will recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predetermined time after a disaster or extended disruption – Emergency notification services

14 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa SUPPORTING CHANGE: AGILE MIS INFRASTRUCTURE Characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure – Accessibility – Availability – Maintainability – Portability – Reliability – Scalability – Usability

15 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Accessibility Accessibility – Refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system Administrator access – Unrestricted access to the entire system

16 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Availability Availability – Time frames when the system is operational Unavailable – Time frames when a system is not operating and cannot be used High availability – System is continuously operational at all times “five 9s” ( percent)

17 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Maintainability Maintainability – How quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes Organizations must watch today’s business, as well as tomorrow’s, when designing and building systems Systems must be flexible enough to meet all types of business changes

18 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Portability Portability – The ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms

19 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Reliability Reliability – Ensures a system is functioning correctly and providing accurate information Reliability is another term for accuracy when discussing the correctness of systems within the context of efficiency IT metrics

20 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Scalability Scalability – How well a system can scale up, or adapt to the increased demands of growth Performance – Measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction Capacity planning – Determines future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high-quality system performance

21 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Usability Usability – The degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use

22 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa SECTION 5.2 Building Sustainable MIS Infrastructures

23 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa LEARNING OUTCOMES 4.Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS 5.Explain the three components of a sustainable MIS infrastructures along with their business benefits

24 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa MIS AND THE ENVIRONMENT Moore’s Law – Refers to how the computer chip performance per dollar doubles every 18 months Sustainable, or “green,” MIS – Describes the production, management, use, and disposal of technology in a way that minimizes damage to the environment Corporate social responsibility – Companies’ acknowledged responsibility to society

25 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa MIS AND THE ENVIRONMENT Three Primary Side Effects of Businesses’ Expanded Use of Technology

26 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Increased Electronic Waste Ewaste – Refers to discarded, obsolete, or broken electronic devices Sustainable MIS disposal – Refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle

27 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Increased Energy Consumption Huge increases in technology use have greatly amplified energy consumption The energy consumed by a computer is estimated to produce as much as 10 percent of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by an automobile

28 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Increased Carbon Emissions The major human-generated greenhouse gases, such as carbon emissions from energy use, are very likely responsible for the increases in climatic temperature over the past half a century When left on continuously, a single desktop computer and monitor can consume at least 100 watts of power per hour

29 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa SUPPORTING THE ENVIRONMENT: SUSTAINABLE MIS INFRASTRUCTURE The components of a sustainable MIS infrastructure include – Grid computing – Cloud computing – Virtualized computing

30 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Grid Computing Grid computing - A collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem

31 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Cloud Computing Cloud computing - Refers to the use of resources and applications hosted remotely on the Internet

32 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform as a Service (PaaS)

33 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Virtualized Computing Virtualization - Creates multiple “virtual” machines on a single computing device

34 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Virtualized Computing Data center – A facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems Sustainable data centers – Reduces carbon emissions – Reduces required floor space – Chooses geographic location

35 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Typical Data Center

36 Nassau Community CollegeProf. Vincent Costa Homework Read over Chapter 5 of Information Systems, pp Look at the notes on the slides