1. What did you learn from these chapters & additional materials? (Use of "I" statements are a great way to answer this question. Please don 't review or outline chapters, articles, or other media. This is about what you learned!
One of the things that I have learned from this section was about the Indian Government and its undertaking to register its 1.2 billion residents within a universal citizen ID system. When I first read that I thought that was pretty impressive. The fact that it cost more than $4 billion is insane to think the least. After they have completed this, it will be the world’s LARGEST database of biometric data. This includes retina scans, fingerprints, and multiple facial images for not one but each individual. This to me …show more content…
In the first part of the section they start off by talking about Hardware. Within this they cover the Input, Processing, Output, and Storage Devices. While I was reading this, one of these things really came out to me and that was storage devices. Storage is such as big thing and this especially goes for bigger companies. Data used to be very small back in the day. 1Gb used to be HUGE in modern terms, and now 1Gb is the size of the pea for most people. I am at the point where I am using Terabytes without even thinking about it. This might not be the case for most people but for me at work a majority of the time I am filling up drives like to tomorrow just from Surveillance Video Footage. I haven’t even started on shared drives through our network and even our backups. I personally believe having the knowledge about Storage Devices is a huge deal, more than ever within a big industry. Lastly I wanted to talk about was the overall software that we use. While reading over the chapters, I noticed that they were talking about operating systems such as, Linux, Windows, and MAC OS. These are all big things that we should know about and even the history behind it. Even though most company’s probably use Windows, or even Mac, it is still important to know about things such as Linux considering everything was build up from it. Even today at work I still use a couple of Linux boxes …show more content…
The part that I had comprehended was “Computer Systems: Integrating the Power of Technology”. Here they talked about how people that are involved in any way with the type of organization they may be in must clearly understand the current and future business requirement. The reason that they say this is so they can make informed and acquisition decisions. One of the examples that they gave was how Facebook needed new data centers, and rather than buy brand computers bye custom build their own as well as a new data center. Now the reason that this applies to me and how I have used this is at work right now. I decided in a lot of ways our company’s requirements, especially when it comes to computer hardware related items. One of the bigger things we have decided was during big events we would rent out computers instead of using all of our equipment. The main reason we would do something like this was because of computer licensing. Instead of using all of our licensing and equipment it was more beneficial to rent out computers, and in the long run saving money. The other thing was instead of renting printers we went to buy our own. After calculating it all out, it was much more cost efficient already within 2 years. This is the reason I picked this example and how it relates to me at work. This information if very useful and really comes in handy during times
One of the things that I have learned from this section was about the Indian Government and its undertaking to register its 1.2 billion residents within a universal citizen ID system. When I first read that I thought that was pretty impressive. The fact that it cost more than $4 billion is insane to think the least. After they have completed this, it will be the world’s LARGEST database of biometric data. This includes retina scans, fingerprints, and multiple facial images for not one but each individual. This to me …show more content…
In the first part of the section they start off by talking about Hardware. Within this they cover the Input, Processing, Output, and Storage Devices. While I was reading this, one of these things really came out to me and that was storage devices. Storage is such as big thing and this especially goes for bigger companies. Data used to be very small back in the day. 1Gb used to be HUGE in modern terms, and now 1Gb is the size of the pea for most people. I am at the point where I am using Terabytes without even thinking about it. This might not be the case for most people but for me at work a majority of the time I am filling up drives like to tomorrow just from Surveillance Video Footage. I haven’t even started on shared drives through our network and even our backups. I personally believe having the knowledge about Storage Devices is a huge deal, more than ever within a big industry. Lastly I wanted to talk about was the overall software that we use. While reading over the chapters, I noticed that they were talking about operating systems such as, Linux, Windows, and MAC OS. These are all big things that we should know about and even the history behind it. Even though most company’s probably use Windows, or even Mac, it is still important to know about things such as Linux considering everything was build up from it. Even today at work I still use a couple of Linux boxes …show more content…
The part that I had comprehended was “Computer Systems: Integrating the Power of Technology”. Here they talked about how people that are involved in any way with the type of organization they may be in must clearly understand the current and future business requirement. The reason that they say this is so they can make informed and acquisition decisions. One of the examples that they gave was how Facebook needed new data centers, and rather than buy brand computers bye custom build their own as well as a new data center. Now the reason that this applies to me and how I have used this is at work right now. I decided in a lot of ways our company’s requirements, especially when it comes to computer hardware related items. One of the bigger things we have decided was during big events we would rent out computers instead of using all of our equipment. The main reason we would do something like this was because of computer licensing. Instead of using all of our licensing and equipment it was more beneficial to rent out computers, and in the long run saving money. The other thing was instead of renting printers we went to buy our own. After calculating it all out, it was much more cost efficient already within 2 years. This is the reason I picked this example and how it relates to me at work. This information if very useful and really comes in handy during times