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rInfrastructure:
5
Sustainable
Technologies

McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright 2013 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
CHAPTER OVERVIEW
Chapter 5

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 5-2
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SECTION 5.1

MIS Infrastructures

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LEARNING OUTCOMES
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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

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THE BUSINESS BENEFITS OF A
SOLID MIS INFRASTRUCTURE
Chapter 5

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

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THE BUSINESS BENEFITS
OF A SOLID MIS
INFRASTRUCTURE Chapter 5
Supporting operations
Information MIS infrastructure
Supporting change
Agile MIS Infrastructure
Supporting the environment
Sustainable MIS infrastructure

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SUPPORTING OPERATIONS:
INFORMATION MIS
INFRASTRUCTURE
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Backup and recovery plan


Disaster recovery plan
Business continuity plan

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Backup and Recovery Plan
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Backup An exact copy of a systems


information
Recovery The ability to get a system up
and running in the event of a system crash
or failure
Fault tolerance
Failover
Failback

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Backup and Recovery Plan
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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
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Backup and Recovery Plan
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Backup and Recovery Plan
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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
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Business Continuity Plan
Chapter 5

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
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SUPPORTING CHANGE:
AGILE MIS
INFRASTRUCTURE Chapter 5
Characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure
Accessibility
Availability
Maintainability
Portability
Reliability
Scalability
Usability

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Accessibility
Chapter 5

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

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Availability
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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

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Maintainability
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Maintainability How quickly a


system can transform to support
environmental changes
Organizations must watch todays
business, as well as tomorrows,
when designing and building
systems
Systems must be flexible enough to
meet all types of business changes

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Portability
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Portability The ability of an application


to operate on different devices or software
platforms

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Reliability
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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

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Scalability
Chapter 5

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
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Usability
Chapter 5

Usability The degree to which a system


is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying
to use

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Chapter 5

SECTION 5.2

Building Sustainable
MIS Infrastructures

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LEARNING OUTCOMES
Chapter 5

4. Identify the environmental impacts


associated with MIS
5. Explain the three components of a
sustainable MIS infrastructures along
with their business benefits

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MIS AND THE
ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 5
Moores 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
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MIS AND THE
ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 5

Three Primary Side Effects of Businesses


Expanded Use of Technology

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Increased Electronic Waste
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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

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Increased Energy
Consumption
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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

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Increased Carbon
Emissions
Chapter 5

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

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SUPPORTING THE ENVIRONMENT:
SUSTAINABLE MIS
INFRASTRUCTURE
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The components of a sustainable MIS


infrastructure include
Grid computing
Cloud computing
Virtualized computing

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Grid Computing
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Grid computing - A collection of


computers, often geographically
dispersed, that are coordinated to solve
a common problem

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Cloud Computing
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Cloud computing - Refers to the use of


resources and applications hosted
remotely on the Internet

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Cloud Computing
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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)


Software as a Service (SaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)

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Virtualized Computing
Chapter 5

Virtualization - Creates multiple virtual


machines on a single computing device

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Virtualized Computing
Chapter 5

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

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