Essays on Scalability

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1. Introduction 1 1.1 Purpose 1 1.2 Intended Audience and Reading Suggestions 1 1.3 Product Scope 1 1.4 References 1 2. Overall Description 1 2.1 Product Perspective 1 2.2 Product Functions 1 2.3 User Classes and Characteristics 2 2.4 Operating Environment 2 2.5 Design and Implementation Constraints 2 2.6 User Documentation 2 2.7 Assumptions and Dependencies 2 3. External Interface Requirements 2 3.1 User Interfaces Overview 2 3.2 Hardware Interfaces 3 3.3 Software Interfaces 3 4. System Features/Modules 3 4.1 Initial screen 3 4.2 Help 4 ...

Introduction

The need for organizations to provide their employees with a work-life balance is increasing every day. Although most companies would love to provide their staff with the opportunity to work from the comfort of their homes, there are various challenges standing in the way. The ability to access company networks regardless of the geographical location presents different benefits such as increased employee productivity, satisfaction but also presents some cons such as security concerns and increasing costs for the company. Developments such as the Cisco Virtual Office Solution have significantly addressed the concerns for many businesses and still provided the ...

Apache Distribution

Apache Hadoop refers to an open source framework that provides the users with a distributed platform for processing of large sets of data across collections of machines using simple programming paradigms (Hortonwork, 2011). The distribution allows scalability from one server to several servers, with each server rendering resident processing and storage. One of the features that make apache preferred by several organizations is its capability to hold, manage and analyze huge volumes of both structured and unstructured data quickly and at low cost. Some of the features include: Reliability-Apache distribution is resilient, and when one node fails, then processing ...

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Section 1: Basic Concepts Concept of the Cloud The IT term “ cloud” is short for two related concepts. For the man on the street, it can just mean the internet and that is acceptable1. For the IT initiate, it would be “cloud computing” which is the delivery of on-demand computing services (e.g. applications) to clients via the internet from server farms of the service provider. These services are applications and databases which reside in the vendor’s various locations unknown to the customers. Google and Facebook are there in the cloud. Such architecture allows the type of service called ...

A Position Paper

In the recent past, demand for services that consume high bandwidth has increased. Such services include real-time video streaming. However, the traditional Internet architecture was never designed with such aspects in mind. As a result, the transportation of data (in more compressed forms) has become prone to high rates of packet losses and delays. For this reason, there was a need to move away from the traditional protocols and standards into the more current Quality of Service (QoS) in computer networks. QoS in a computer network enables the network to transport data simultaneously from one host to another while ...

Starbucks is a United States based coffee manufacturing company that has been in existence since 1971, and has various branches in the country, but due to the continuous technological advantages, the firm has been forced to improve the quality of its softwares. The present learning management system for the firm that has been in use for the purposes of generating reports, documenting, and e-learning appears to be out of date because of the increasing size of the firm. Therefore, the management has been forced to contemplate on two options, which include upgrading the existing learning management system or adopting ...

Digital forensics is of great importance when it comes to investigation and law. This is the acquisition, analysis and presentation of evidence to courts through a scientific collection of the same. When proposing digital forensics equipment, there are various pertinent factors that will need to be taken into consideration include the cost of the tools used in the analysis, the work needed in the forensics investigations and the available devices on the market. This paper is going to discuss two digital forensic tools used, their advantages, drawbacks and the possible usage of the same.

Description and Function of the Tool

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The cloud computing reduces the capital expense that is required to record and manage the data manually. The infrastructure developed for the manual management of data requires continuous maintenance and manpower for the sorting and retrieving of data. The prevalence of cloud computing ensures the scalability of the effectiveness and efficiency in the disaster recovery. In this manner, if the communication between entities is needed to be enhanced by increasing the number of prevailing or administrative entities then cloud computing ensures the prevalence of technological solution to increase its scalability (Leavitt, 2009). The communication mechanism is a critical concern ...

Executive Summary

Storage, scalability, accessibility and security have always been the key problems faced by technology officers across industries ever since their operations have been made to run on enterprise platforms. With the progress made in the area of information and communication technology along with the development and popularity of social media and other data sources, the volume of data generated is huge, which every organization wants to exploit in order to arrive at meaningful intelligence that can help in growing their businesses. Storage of this huge amount of data, its retrieval and the associated costs are challenges for the organizations, ...

Possible infrastructure vulnerabilities:

A computer network is made up of two or more electronic media that are able to communicate with each other through a predetermined way. Computer networks are very important to the world at present. Network vulnerabilities can be described as any security exposure that exposes the network to undesirable activity or unauthorized access. Network vulnerability has the possibility to lead to unauthorized access to information and resources of the network, altering the activities of the networks and even to the total denial of the network (EC-Council Press, 2011). Network vulnerabilities can be categorized into two main categories; application or ...

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Part 5 Task 1

A careful cost analysis revealed that it was a complex decision to select between the two software options. Both options had a shared cost of 14,500 based on the fact that the current infrastructure was not opt o part, and would require replacement in order to support the appropriate function of the new system. Bearing in mind, however that this was a shared cost, regardless of the model selected, it was not included in the mathematical cost analysis for the two options for the project. The total cost of the in house option, when all factors were equally ...

IST 305- Assignment # 5

Enterprise Applications Enterprise applications include applications for pay role, supply chain, employ/customer records, accounting and customer service. Enterprise applications involve persistent data that needs to be kept for several years. For an organization, to implement an Enterprise application, it must consider various factors before deciding on the enterprise application provider. The enterprise application can be of different kinds and cater to different segments of the business; it could be for a business to customer or a customer to customer model. Before deciding on an enterprise system, the organization must think about the performance (Moser et al.). The other factors ...

Cloud technology has gained wide acceptance across multiple industries and is often touted as the future way of doing business. The company in consideration here- Better Payments Incorporated is a multinational payments organization that provides electronic payment cards to its customers. The company’s CIO has been entrusted with the immediate goals of reducing cost, increasing security and driving a technology enabled geographical expansion. This case study analysis paper will look into the ways and means for the company to achieve its goals through the adoption of cloud technology. The roadmap for the CIO to help the company achieve ...