On Tuesday September 1, 2009 Gmail, the email service provided the Google search engine, experience a widespread outage. Ben Treynor, a Google vise president said, “it was a big deal and that Google is working identifying and correcting the errors that lead to the outage.” The immediate cause for the outage was that a few servers were taken offline for routine maintenance and while they were offline Google experienced experience an unexpected surge in internet traffic.
Eric Kuhn goes on to mention that at one time users would consider that the problem was stemming from their own internet connection but with social network such as Twitter that old ideology went out the door. People knew exactly why they weren’t getting any serve. According to Kuhn “Gmail problems were a top trend topic on Twitter” (cnn.com, 1)
This article directly correlates with this week’s chapter, chapter five, because two of the main topics in chapter five were backup and recovery. An organization needs to plan how often to backup information and those they also need to plan when and how minimize down time and improve recovery time. One particular method was fault tolerance in which a system has a component embedded in the system that takes over the main system in the event of an outage. Another method is failovers in which a separate duplicate system takes over while the main system is down. According to Treynor, “Google plans to increase router capacity well beyond peak demand to provide headroom” (cnn.com, 1) with 36 million users in the US alone Google should have planned better maintenance schedules.
By: Eric Kuhn
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/01/gmail.outage/index.html
The article, “Should You Worry About Data Rot?” was an interesting article. The article addressed a central issue when it comes to information technology; how do you preserve it? The article was based off of a Sunday morning TV show. The article went in to a brief history of how data storage has changed over the years. Important facts such as the average computer lasts around 3-4 years before it becomes obsolete were key to the point that storage is important. Other facts that drove the point across that storage is something we need to think about is the life span of applications. The real-time player of yesterday isn’t the same as the new real-time player 15 (figuratively speaking). Meaning old videos that you took a couple years ago won’t be converted and the data will be lost. Other examples are videos and cassette tapes. Most people are using technology to transfer old home videos to dvd and they think that there data is now safe. But one day people will ask, what was a DVD? This reality is a scary thought. Memories are what life is about. Family photos are essential to that memory. So when we think that these memories could disappear it is breath stopping. Ideas that were brought up were using websites to back up photos. This came with a warning saying that these sites can go under. The other note was to print out the information. Photos and documents are known to last at least 100 years. The article summed up with saying that there is no storage available on the market that is known to last through the times. The best thing to do is to keep up with technology. This related to the chapter in talking about data backup. This isn’t on a big scale like the book talked about but this does address a personal need.
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/should-you-worry-about-data-rot/?scp=1&sq=bake%20up%20and%20recovery&st=Search
“Why Grid Computing Makes Economic Sense”
I chose this article because I came across this in the chapter and didn’t understand it completely and wanted more information about this answer to solve many problems. The article begins with what the problem is now a day in the business platform. It delves into how the IT district is always struggling to find a way to be more cost efficient and also to centralize their business. Then the article continues on and tells the reasons for doing this. Scalability: where companies exhaust their resources and manpower deploying, maintaining, and upgrading software systems, they could use a grid and the power of existing systems can be scaled exponentially, maintained seamlessly, upgraded transparently, and redeployed at will. The speed of the grid is unparallel and can help increase productivity and a business’ competitiveness with a faster deployment of new systems, or the speedy ramping up of existing ones. Also users around the world can use this system very easily without specific training. Implementation is very easy on this. Developers can pair weeks of integration and configuration time with hosting environments for their cloud platforms. On demand network computing power and storage capability means that companies don’t have to invest the bank and everything under the mattress in the static hardware. And cost is the last thing that is mentioned in the article. To implement this is very low cost and this is the biggest advantage for companies. What the great thing is that businesses only pay for the resources that they actually use. And don’t forget about the great savings that will not be put into investing into the expensive hardware.
Avoyan, Hovhannes. Why Grid Computing Makes Economic Sense. 6 Dec 2009. SYS-CON Media, Inc. 14 Dec 2009. http://ajax.sys-con.com/node/1211109
Cyber criminals are now targeting twitter users, but Panda Security is on to them. Panda Security is a Spain based antivirus maker, and the cyber criminals are using malware for their crime. Malware is malicious software that is used by tagging hot topics so when people click on the news link the virus is loaded. Cyber crimes cost companies and consumers more than $100 billion worldwide. Oddly enough cyber crime is one of the few industries benefiting from the financial crisis. In the last year there has been a 500 percent increase malware types, and the FBI has reported a 33 percent increase in internet crime last year. There is a new virus every two and half seconds. Also, unfortunately companies have lost $4.6 million due to these crimes. And since cyber crime increase also the need for antivirus also increase, McAfee had a 21 percent higher profit in their first quarter than same time last year.
These criminals don’t stop there. They create website to share the way they do such crimes for other to learn. There is also software you can purchase for $500 but for the first callers they get a $400 discount. Another thing you find on sale on line is the information that is stolen after the crime has been made. There is thousands of credit card and social security numbers waiting to be bought from cyber criminals.
This crime is hard to stop, business are afraid to speak out because they are afraid that there companies will loose its prestige. It is easier to prosecute child pornography than viruses since at least pornography leaves evidence behind and when it comes to cyber crime there is so many jurisdictions most criminals are safe.
This article is related to chapter 5 since it deals with the virtual world and the dangerous that it has. Cyber crimes are growing and the best targets are businesses due to the large amount of personal information they are able to store.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/21/cyber.crime.internet/index.html?iref=newssearch
From a business standpoint the location for the new data center was well thought out. Dublin has a relatively cool climate and great internet connectivity. Data centers need to be kept cool by some sort of cooling system which take up the predominate costs to have one open, but for the new data center they’ll be able to maintain its coolness 95% of the time just by the climate and using the natural air outside. This should cut operating costs dramatically and save the company a lot of money which means more net income for the business.
With Microsoft’s vision of the capacty planning for such a center and the scalability the business promotes ensures that the business understands that in order to stay at the top of the ladder they must adjust to present and future demands from consumers, businesses and developers.
Kirk,Jeremy, IDG News Service (2009) Microsoft set to fire up Dublin Data Center PCWorld .com Retrieved from http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/172529/microsoft_set_to_fire_up_dublin_data_center.html
These days, everyone use on same network. And most of companies also depend on these technologies. So doing e-business means a greater number of customers, partners and suppliers, and even government regulators need unparalleled access to corporations’ computer systems. It’s a very different security situation these days many of your insiders are not actually employees, now many people from the outside have a much better opportunity to do harm to company rather than just the random hacker. Firewalls, virus and spam protection are only part of the picture. Panda Security, a Spain-based antivirus maker, has been monitoring an onslaught of links with malicious software, or “malware,” on Twitter that tag hot topics such as the Air France crash, the NBA finals, “American Idol” runner-up Adam Lambert and the new iPhone. “Cyber criminals have been targeting Twitter users by creating thousands of messages (tweets) embedded with words involving trending topics and malicious URLs,” Sean-Paul Correll, a threat researcher for Panda Labs, wrote recently on a blog for the company.
Secure the company’s information is very important to maintain their company. CIO should prepare to damage of their information. In the case of customer information, It uses everywhere even manufacturing to marketing. So it should be protected by CIO.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/12/10/globaloffice.cyber.security/index.html?iref=newssearch -http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/21/cyber.crime.internet/index.html?iref=newssearch
It is very common for a business to encounter some type of disaster in their lifetime. This article presents a guide to an effective disaster recovery plan. Many companies feel it is overwhelming and time consuming to have a disaster recovery plan so they go without one. One other option is to hire an outsider to develop a plan. If that is too costly, company should at least have important pieces. It is much better than nothing. The major areas in disaster recovery are data, communication, and people. The most common disaster is data loss whether it be a result of hardware failure or human error. The best defense against data loss is to have a backup. Companies should know which data are more important than others. The backup should be at a different location, easily accessible, and secure. The recovery process should be practiced so when it comes time to do so, employees will be prepared. Communication between employees and clients is critical after disaster otherwise the company will lose out. A list of the clients should be saved on a website in case of disaster and a company should develop a plan that includes how clients can contact them in case of an emergency. The last major area is the people. Companies should setup methods of communication within the company. Companies should also have a hot-site where employees can meet after a disaster. To ensure comprehension from employees, review the plans regularly. I chose this article because it deals with recovery from a disaster. The textbook mentions and defines what disaster recovery is. This article is a good guide on achieving a successful disaster recovery. It is very informative.
Source:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/business/smallbusiness/10disaster.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=disaster%20recovery&st=cse
In Priya Ganapati’s article, “Why Verizon’s phones aren’t more exciting,” Ganapati discusses the reasons why the wireless cell phone provider, Verizon Wireless known for having the best network, have the worst smartphones. Verizon already a leader in areas of call coverage and quality but when it comes to having the newest high tech cell phones, Verizon still falls behind to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint. Just two weeks ago Motorola unveiled their first Android phone, the Cliq which will sell exclusively with T-Mobile. Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha told Wire.com, “We never considered another carrier for this phone(Ganapati, 2009).” The top wireless carriers are releasing new Smartphones but Verizon plays the conservative approach. With T-Mobile unveiling the Cliq, Sprint releasing the Palm Pre and will later launch the HTC Hero later this year, and AT&T having the iPhone, Verizon has not had its focus on the products it offers but focuses on the service it provides.
The article is an example of Verizon’s infrastructure architecture not able to provide enough quality high end cell phones. Verizon’s lack of flexibility has not allowed the company to be able to adapt to other technology’s thus leaving Verizon without the use of popular phones. Verizon did not plan ahead as other carriers, such as AT&T released smartphones like the iPhone, which changed the entire direction the smartphone technology was heading and left Verizon behind. Another example is Verizon lack of interoperability, which is a form of application architecture, has not allowed its technology to work with that of other manufactures. For example, Verizon is not able to sell Nokia branded cell phones because Nokia largely makes GSM phones. The GSM phones will not work on Verizon’s CDMA network thus relatively a whole company’s brand of phones are not sold with Verizon. The lack of planning and vision into the future of the business has left Verizon solely to focus on its services but leave it behind in the release of new phones.
Ganapati, P. (2009). Why Verizon’s phones aren’t more exciting. Retrieved September 24, 2009, from http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/17/verizon.cellphones/index.html
In information system, data is so important that even we can be disappeared in Earth, if all data about us is erased. Sometimes, this true is used by movie story or material of book. People use bank to save, transfer, or lend money and government accumulate the data of their citizen, not to mention the other companies or finance system, so data can change everything in the world. As it became so critical and crucial, dangerous of losing data is also becoming serious. In chapter 5, we learned about disaster recovery that is included in enterprise architecture. According to this article, making a recovery plan could save money or even entire your business and there are a lot of methods of data recovery and article explains that the most common data disaster is data loss that can be caused by human error, hardware spool, calamity, and hacking. Not only making disaster recovery, but also preventing or reducing to leak data is very important, so there are some guides to do that. These guides are intended to simplify the disaster-recovery planning process by breaking the overall task into building blocks, covering major areas like data, communication and people. We need to learn this important information, and also we can apply our situation in our laptop or anything else. Nowadays, most companies also are preparing disaster recovery, but the point is to reduce the cost of disaster recovery, because it can sometimes burden of entrepreneur. Thus, we need appropriate strategies to prevent our important information.
Article resource- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/business/smallbusiness/10disaster.html?scp=3&sq=data%20recovery&st=cse
In the article, Be Prepared, by Karen Bannen the idea of a companies disaster recovery program is explored. In Be Prepared, Bannen discuss the situation Deutsche Bank faced after the 9/11 incident. Deutsche Bank had made it a point of their business to set up a state of the art backup and recovery system for their vital information. The company set up two data centers, one being in the World Trade Center and the other in nearby New Jersey. Deutshe Bank had drilled their employees quite frequently on what to do in the situation of a system failure. The idea was to have all their information backed up in case of a system crash but little did they know what was coming.
When the September 11th attacks occurred Deutsche Bank lost 2 employees, 5,000 computers and several servers containing valuable information. Though for some companies this would mean the end of the line, Deutsche Bank was able to continue because they had all their information backed up in the other office in New Jersey. It was interesting to find out all the businesses that failed after the 9/11 tragedy. Many companies did not back their information up and once the towers collapsed so did the companies. There are hundreds of companies that went under after 9/11 and will never come back, because of Deutsche Bank’s precautionary measures they were able to get back to business within a week after the incident all because their hot site in New Jersey.
Deutsche Bank has served as an example of what companies should do when it comes to backing up their information. No one saw the 9/11 attacks coming but because Deutsche Bank planned ahead they are still in the game thriving.
Bannen, Karen. Be Prepared. PC Magazine. January 15, 2002. www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,100215,00.asp
As chapter 5 talks about enterprise architecture and security Google plans on offering cloud services such as Google Apps to federal agencies starting in 2010. Google has assured the cloud services to be entirely compliant with the requirements of the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). According to Business Week, Google announced its plans at a cloud computing event in California, in which it was clarified that the government services would be hosted on Google’s data centers that are complaint with government regulations. A service provider is required to have a FISMA certification in order to sell to federal agencies. However, for those of you like me who do not know what cloud computing is I found a definition in Wikipedia. According to Wikipedia, cloud computing is a paradigm of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. In other words, these services typically provide similar business applications online that are accessed from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on the servers. One of Google’s executives assured that the government cloud service will be operated by individuals with the appropriate security clearances and all the government’s data will remain in the U.S. According to Karen Evan, former de facto federal CIO under the Bush administration, one of the greatest advantages on using cloud services from Google could help federal agencies significantly reduce IT costs. However, many are very reluctant with the security and information assurance of using a cloud service. The deal between Google and federal agencies could close depending on the result from the FISMA certification and accreditation that Google’s cloud services receive.
Viajayah, Jaikumar. (Sept. 17, 2009). Google Pursues Government Biz: Security Concerns Loom. BusinessWeek. Retrieved on Sept. 22, 2009 from http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2009/tc20090917_122270.htm
Twitter message could be cyber criminal at work
Kevin Voigt’s June 22 article entitled Twitter message could be cyber criminal at work is basically about the evolution of cyber criminals. With Twitter being one of the latest popular technologies, it is only fitting that criminals would take advantage of it. They set up links to malicious software using key words and headlines of major events in the news. Twitter is just one of the examples used in the article that highlights a world wide $100 billion problem. While it started out as pranks using viruses, internet crime has turned in to a very large business. Spam, phishing, botnet schemes, etc. are just a few of the latest methods in cyber attacks. Another thing is extortion. People make a deal with large companies to not expose their records and information in exchange for millions of dollars. They will draw people in to click on dangerous links using things like promises of free money, downloads, and pornography. These criminals are actually very organized now. They have R&D departments, distribution networks, and Web sites. These Web sites can include “toolkits” for criminals to learn things like how to get past security measures to set up botnet schemes. They will actually charge money for this information. Financial information from secured-payment providers is made available for a fee. This business is now largely unchecked and is hard to prosecute. The textbook exudes the importance of up-to-date antivirus software and patches and managing user access. The problems of cyber attacks becomes an increasing problem, so it should be an increasing priority for businesses.
Voigt, K. (2009) Twitter message could be cyber criminal at work, CNN. Retrieved September 24, 2009, from http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/21/cyber. crime.internet/index.html?iref=newssearch
When you are running a lot of projects on several different computers, it is essential that all of your work is continually backed up on external hard drives in case your computer ever crashes spontaneously. If the files and projects are not backed up continuously and the computer crashes, it may cost the company a lot of time and money to have their employees either re-do the work or recover the projects.
For example, I have been working all summer on five different video projects on five separate PC computers. I just learned tonight that of the five computers, two of them have been infected with a virus through some internet web page that the students accessed without permission. They violated a trust that we had for them. What concerns me most is that this is going to set back the project and cost me more time to get the projects up and running again.
According to PC World Magazine, there is an easier way to store over 400 types of files on your computer with the new Storage Appliance’s Clickfree Automatic Backup line, the Clickfree Backup Drive. The drive has a storage space of 1TB. I’ve noticed that as time passes and equipments become “easier and cheaper” to make for companies, these external hard drives and flash drives are also becoming cheaper to purchase. The Clickfree Backup Drive’s cost ranges between $160 to $250 depending on which merchant you make the purchase from.
The back up drive starts off with a 25-second countdown and then scans your computer’s system for data files that are compatible with it to back up. After it has scanned the system and found the files that it can back up, it will ask you and warn you that it will back up those files. When the warning pops up, you are able to choose which files you wish to remove from the list or which other files to include. Once the files are backed up, you are still able to access the files on the backup drive through the Clickfree software to either print, share, email, or etc the files.
The backup drive is similar to other ones out there but it does not back up system files or support disaster recovery. The backup drive performs glitch-free on most operating systems but reviewers found problems with it when using the Windows XP system. The backup drive also has a reminder clock installed to ask you occasionally when to next back up your drive.
Overall, I need something like this in my line of work. It’s hard to remember to backup all of the work that I do because I get so caught up in the work, but with a Clickfree backup drive, it can automatically search my system for me to backup my files at set times.
The link to this article can be found by clicking here.
In this CNN article, it talks about system failure with BlackBerry service. Millions of customers were disconnected to their BlackBerry service provider for over a day and the next day it was restored. The next morning the company said it was restored to “most customers”. The service interruption occurred on a Tuesday night and service was restored on Wednesday morning. The root cause of this interupption is not for certain, and is still under review. RIM is closely keeping and eye on the system to maintain normal service levels for customers. The storck of RIM (Research in Motion), which is the carrier for the BlackBerry service and device sank approximately one percent at the open but gained that somewhat back and was off about 0.3 percent in the morning tracing Nasdaq. The service interuption included backed-up emails, no access at all, dropped calls, etc. A verizion spokesperson said the service interuption did not involve their service. The service interuption affected users across the Western hemisphere, WNBC, a New York TV news channel, reported. Some even said it affected Hong Kong and London. Due to the reliability of BlackBerry, customers expect the device and service to be available at all times. This back up and service interuption caused a lot of unsatisified customers. Therefore they had to come up with a recovery plan as mentioned in chapter 5. The recovery process includes getting the system to be up and running again. This is an example of disaster recovery plan. This is definitely a gateway leading to a disaster recovery cost curve. Every minute the system is downit costs the company. Enterprise artchitecture plays a huge role in business operations and infrastructure. Security and reliability, some of the characteristics are exemplified in this article.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/18/technology/rimm/index.htm
For this chapter I found an article in EBSCO through our Madden Library and it talks about all the troubles we would go through without enterprise architecture. In order to have a good enterprise architecture you have to have a good blueprint. This article mentioned the mansion of Sarah Winchester. There was no blue print to her house, the builders went off of drawings she made and in the end there were stairways leading straight to the ceilings. Doorways with no entry and a chimney that doesn’t reach the ceiling among other odds and ends.
Very much like this idea without a blueprint your architecture will fail and collapse. According to this article one of the primary benefits of having an enterprise architecture is that it shows how all the system components fit together. The article used another example about a cruise line in South Florida who had grown at a rapid pace, who even had a sister cruise line, did not have a sufficient architecture; that all their systems were separated and not maintained.
The article by Giachetti has it’s benefits of enterprise architecture listed. Which a lot of business corporations and owners need to recognize. According to Giachetti, EA’s top two uses are; to provide a model that lets all stakeholders understand and communicate the overall business design, to provide a high-level, holistic design of the business indicating how all the subsystems will interoperate and coordinate. That is only a couple out of many. EA is essential in business processes.
Giachetti, R. (2009). Design for the Entire Business. Industrial Engineer: IE, 41(6), 39-43.Retrieved: 24 Sept. 2009, website: http://xerxes.calstate.edu/fresno/metasearch/record?group=007067&resultSet=068442&startRecord=2
In relation to information security, I chose an article dealing with identity theft. According to the article, a mister Tien “Tim” Truong Nguyen, plead guilty to charges of identity theft, in which consumer information was captured for the sake of creating fraudulent Wal-Mart credit accounts. Tien was assisting a Romanian phishing campaign in exchange for methamphetamines. In two months, Tien and two co-conspiritors managed to net $193,000 in Wal-Mart credit accounts. The consumer information was stolen by means of fake web sites. In a previous arrest, police and investigators found credit card numbers, bank account numbers and the stolen information of tens of thousands of people on Tien’s computer. They also found templates for making fake Web sites. Many of Nguyen’s victims were PayPal users who responded to fake e-mails or pop-up windows that asked them for personal information. When the users responded, the information was logged onto Tien’s computer and used for the barter of information for methamphetamine. There are very simple security measures people can take to protect their information from phishers and hackers who try to use it. One good way to protect your information is to purchase a service from a credit reporting agency. Every time someone, including yourself, tries to acquire credit in your name, a check will be administered. Along with this check, a verification, usually via telephone, will be required to make a purchase, or, to confirm that you were indeed the person who made the purchase. You also get reports saying whether or not new credit activity is taking place under your name. Another way is just to keep information private, and only use secure websites. I chose this article because it is a prime example of what can happen if an organization doesn’t have a foolproof information security system. Hackers and Phishers can easily set up fake pop-ups and web-sites and steal consumer information to use for whatever purpose they chose. This is why most businesses say information security is most important.
McMillan/IDG News Service, Robert. “Man Pleads Guilty in Wal-Mart Card Phishing Scheme.” PC World. 9 Sept. 2009. Web. 22 Sept. 2009. .
Grid computing means data centers.The book mentions Google as one of the largest grid computing systems in the world. These data centers suck up a lot of energy. One way to reduce the energy used is to reduce the heat generated by using virtualization to minimize hard ware in use. However the island of Mauritius is going about cooling data centers in a novel way; They intend to use sea water to cool hot hardware also known as Sea Water Air Conditioning or SWAC. The Mauritius Eco-Park’s plans involve drawing water that is two miles off sure and about 1000 meters below sea level. At that depth the water would be a frigid 5 degrees Celsius. Although systems of this kind have been used before, this is the first time it will be used to cool a data center. This is a great system to develop. It will help reduce energy cost will in turn means less energy used and less pollution. I am concerned as to the ecological impact to the ocean. Dumping an excess of warm water could impact the floral and fauna of the ocean. It seems, however, that the Eco-Park plans to mitigate this by using a closed circuit of water to cool the facility and dumping the warmer water closer to the surface of the ocean, where the water is naturally warmer. This system cooling system boasts energy reductions of 75 -90 percent and thus should be seriously considered. A similar system used at Cornell University uses 86 percent less energy compared to traditional chillers.
DataCenterKnowledge. (2009).
Mauritius Pitches Sea_colled Data Centers . Retrieved September , 21 2009 From http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/09/21/mauritius-pitches-sea-cooled-data-centers/
Google Enterprises began an online book printing process. Over 2 million books are already available to print up due to copyright expiration. The books that Google picks up are books that are old enough to have fallen out of copyright agreements and they are open to the public domain. Through the last even years, Google employees have searched through millions of stacks of old books in different university libraries and public libraries. Google is teaming with On Demand Books and letting people print up these books individually in libraries. The Espresso Book machine is what libraries are investing in and they are capable of producing a full 300 page book with a cover in about 4 minutes. The machine can make up to 60,000 books a year. This would cost about 10 dollars to buy a book that used to cost 50 dollars. This is a revolutionary industry that Google is on to. They are being innovative and finding a problem and offering a solution. Books can get so expensive these days and a lot of them do not even have their copyright rights anymore. This is a cheap alternative to an expensive problem. Especially for the poor college student who is looking for books as cheap as possible. The company makes a profit and the consumer is overly satisfied. That is the type of business wants to be a part of. They have a solid enterprise architecture in expanding their business and taking on new fields as they expand.
At University of Washington, a team of scientists, eye surgeons, students, and professors have been working on developing a contact lens with a built-in LED. This LED is powered wirelessly with radio frequency wave. This team is hoping that eventually more advance versions of the lens will be useful in providing vast amount of information. The lens could provide information such as virtual captions scrolling underneath everything you see, people and objects. Even more intriguing is the idea that such contact lens cloud be used to monitor a person’s vital signs. The contact lens could be used to track, body temperature and blood glucose level, including cholesterol, sodium, potassium and glucose levels. According to Babak Parvis, a University of Washington professor, this is possible because the surface of the eye contains enough data about the body to gather health information. Information that these contact lens will monitor in the future, in now gathered using blood tests. Such real-time technology will greatly enhance personal health monitoring and give individuals more control of their health. The developers of these lenses are looking at even more possibilities for the future of this product. They’re saying that someday these lenses may be used in gaming and social networking.
I chose this article because in discusses advancements in infrastructure architecture. These contact lenses will collect and provide information to individual’s users about their personal health. This tool can greatly help improve people’s health.
Chen, B. X. (2009). Digital contacts will keep an eye on your vital signs. Retrieved September 23, 2009, from CNN Technology Website: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/ptech/09/11/wired.digital.contacts/index.html#cnnSTCText
On August 14th 2003 there was The Northeast Blackout, a massive widespread power outage that occurred throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States and Ontario, Canada. At the time, it was the most widespread electrical blackout in history. The blackout affected an estimated 10 million people in Ontario and 45 million people in eight U.S. states. Sungard, a large company that provides data backup and recovery services had the most called that night. Previous most called for backup services was Hurricane Floyd pounded the East Coast in September 1999.
Most companies actually have their own backup system or server, but they were all too close by to the main company. Therefore, when the blackout happens, their backup systems were down as well. That is why they had to get disaster recovery plan from Sungard. It was an expensive lesson for those companies that suffer from the black out. They should have their back up system at least one or two states away from the main company. Because according to the article, a black out could happen anytime and anywhere, it could be a terrorist attack, blaster worm, hurricane, or other disasters, so companies are still at risk if they have their backup system close by.
I choose this article because it is a good example of backup and recovery in practice. Having a backup system that is too near would not prevent natural disasters or power outage. Humans tend to forget once a disaster is over for a few years, but it could happen again any time anywhere.
Reference: Alex Salkever (August 2003). Where’s Your Backup System? Business Week.
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