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CHAPTER FIVE

INFRASTRUCTURES

SUSTAINABLE

TECHNOLOGIES

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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

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SECTION 5.1

MIS Infrastructures

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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

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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

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THE BUSINESS BENEFITS OF A

SOLID MIS INFRASTRUCTURE 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

Backup and recovery plan

Disaster recovery plan

Business continuity plan

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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

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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

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Backup and Recovery Plan

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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

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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

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SUPPORTING CHANGE: AGILE

MIS INFRASTRUCTURE

Characteristics of an agile MIS infrastructure

• Accessibility

• Availability

• Maintainability

• Portability

• Reliability

• Scalability

• Usability

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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

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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

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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

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Portability

Portability – The ability of an application to

operate on different devices or software

platforms

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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

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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

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Usability

Usability – The degree to which a system is

easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use

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SECTION 5.2

Building Sustainable

MIS Infrastructures

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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

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MIS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Moore’s Law - Refers to 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

Three Primary Side Effects Of Businesses’

Expanded Use Of Technology

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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

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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

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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

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SUPPORTING THE ENVIRONMENT:

SUSTAINABLE MIS INFRASTRUCTURE

The components of a sustainable MIS

infrastructure include

• Grid computing

• Cloud computing

• Virtualized computing

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Grid Computing

Grid computing - A collection of computers,

often geographically dispersed, that are

coordinated to solve a common problem

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Cloud Computing

Cloud computing - Refers to the use of

resources and applications hosted remotely on

the Internet

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Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

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Virtualized Computing

Virtualization - Creates multiple “virtual”

machines on a single computing device

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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

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