FBIM words 6

___: Combination of private and public cloud services that remain separate entities.

hybrid cloud

___: Third-party service offering computing, storage, and software services to multiple customers and that is available to the public

public cloud

__ are the most popular operating systems for corporate and personal computer.

MacOS and Windows 10

A computer software whose source code is made available to the public to be distributed freely and modified by anyone is called: ___.

open source software

___ are the most popular operating systems for mobile devices.

IOS and Android

_ are a set of loosely coupled software components that exchange information with each other using universal web communication standards and languages. They can exchange information between two different systems regardless of the operating systems or programming languages on which the systems are based.

Web services

___ refers to practices and technologies for de-signing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated devices such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems to minimize impact on the environment.

Green computing

The process of presenting a set of computing resources (such as computing power or data storage) so that they can all be accessed in ways that are not restricted by physical configuration or geographic location is: ___.

Virtualization

_ _ _ are specifications that establish the compatibility of products and the ability to communicate in a network. They allow ___ which results in price declines as manufacturers focus on the products built to a single standard.

Technology standards, economies of scale

The shared technology resources that provide the platform for the firm's specific information system applications is the: ___.

IT infrastructure

A method of optimizing cloud computing systems by performing some data processing on a set of linked servers at the edge of the network, near the source of the data. This method reduces the amount of data flowing back and forth between local computers and other devices and the central cloud data center. This method is called: ___.

edge computing

___ is a phenomenon that allows employees to use their personal mobile devices in the workplace..

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

BYOD (bring your own device) is one aspect of the ___, in which new information technology that first emerges in the consumer market spreads into business organizations.

consumerization of IT

___ is a page description language for specifying how text, graphics, video, and sound are placed on a web page and for creating dynamic links to other web pages and objects.

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

___: This technology enables two or more processing engines with reduced power requirements and heat dissipation to perform tasks faster than a resource-hungry chip with a single processing core.

Multicore processor

___ : A set of self-contained services that communicate with each other to create a working software application. Business tasks are accomplished by executing a series of these services.

service oriented architecture

Microsoft Windows Server, Unix, Linux

Give the three leading systems for corporate servers

___: A model that can be used to analyze direct and indirect costs to help firms determine the actual cost of specific technology implementations.

Total cost of ownership

Metcalfe's law states that the value or power of a network grows ___ as a function of the number of network members. Metcalfe and others point to the ___ that network members receive as more and more people join the network

exponentially, increasing returns to scale

___: Made it possible for computer machines from different manufacturers to exchange data; later used as the universal language linking input and output devices such as keyboards and mice to computers. Adopted by the American National Standards Institute in 1963.

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) (1958)

___: An easy-to-use software language that greatly expanded the ability of programmers to write business-related programs and reduced the cost of software. Sponsored by the Defense Department in 1959

Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL) (1959)

_: A powerful multitasking, multiuser, portable operating system initially developed at Bell Labs (1969) and later released for use by others (1975). It operates on a wide variety of computers from different manufacturers. Adopted by Sun, IBM, HP, and others in the 1980s, it became the most widely used enterprise-level operating system

unix (1969-1975)

___: A network standard for connecting desktop computers into local area networks that enabled the widespread adoption of client/server computing and local area networks and further stimulated the adoption of personal computers.

Ethernet (1973)

___: Suite of communications protocols and a common addressing scheme that enables millions of computers to connect together in one giant global network (the Internet). Later, it was used as the default networking protocol suite for local area networks and intranets. Developed in the early 1970s for the U.S. Department of Defense.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) (1974)

__: The standard Wintel design for personal desktop computing based on standard Intel processors and other standard devices, Microsoft DOS, and later Windows software. The emergence of this standard, low-cost product laid the foundation for a 25-year period of explosive growth in computing throughout all organizations around the globe. Today, more than 1 billion PCs power business and government activities every day

IBM/Microsoft/Intel Personal Computer (1981)

___: Standards for storing, retrieving, formatting, and displaying information as a worldwide web of electronic pages incorporating text, graphics, audio, and video enables creation of a global repository of billions of web pages.

World Wide Web (1989-1993)

While conventional computers handle bits of data as either 0 or 1 but not both, another type of computer can process units of data as 0, 1, or both simultaneously. What is this other type of computer?: ___

quantum computer

___: A prewritten commercially available set of software programs that eliminates the need for a firm to write its own software programs for certain functions, such as payroll processing or order handling.

software package

___ enables a firm to contract custom software develop-ment or maintenance of existing legacy programs to outside firms, which often operate offshore in low-wage areas of the world.

software outsourcing

Moore's law states that the number of components on a chip with the smallest manufacturing costs per component ___ each year.

doubles

A model of computing in which computer processing, storage, software, and other services are provided as a shared pool of virtualized resources over a network, primarily the Internet is called: ___.

cloud computing

___ refers to the ability of a computer, product, or system to expand to serve a large number of users without breaking down

scalablility

In a ___ infrastructure, systems can be administered from a central location and troubleshooting can be performed from that location.

centralized

The law of mass digital storage states that the amount of digital information is roughly ___ every year.

doubling

The enterprise ___ software is responsible for organizing and managing the firm's data so that they can be efficiently accessed and used.

database management