ISA 235 Chapter 5
Cloud Bursting
When a company uses its own computing infrastructure for normal usage and access the cloud when it need to sale for high/peak load requirements ensuring a sudden spike in usage does not result in poor performance or system crashes.
Unavailable
When a system is not operating or cannot be used.
Storage Virtualization
Combines multiple network storage devices so they appear to be a single storage device.
Network Virtualization
Combines networks by splitting the available bandwidth into independent channels that can be assigned in real time to a specific device.
Server Virtualization
Combines the physical resources, such as servers, processes, and operating systems, from the applications.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Companies' acknowledged responsibility to society.
Hardware
Consists of the physical devices associated with a computer system.
Incident Report
Contains all of the details of an incident.
Virtualization
Creates multiple "virtual" machines on a single computing device.
Scalability
Describes how well a system can scale up to adapt to the increased demands of growth.
Sustainable or "Green" MIS
Describes the production, management, use and disposable of technology in a way that minimizes damage to the environment.
Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Details how a company recovers and restores critical business operations and systems after a disaster or extended disruption.
Capacity Planning
Determines the future environmental infrastructure requirements to ensure high-quality system performance.
Single-Tenacny
Each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system.
Emergency Preparedness
Ensures a company is ready to respond to an emergency in an organized, timely, and effective manner.
Reliability/Accuracy
Ensures a system is functioning correctly and providing accurate information.
Data as a Service (DaaS)
Facilitates the accessibility of a business-critical data in a timely, secure, and affordable manner.
Technology Recovery Strategies
Focus on specially on prioritizing the order for restoring hardware, software, and data across the organization the best meets business recovery requirements.
Serviceability
How quickly a third party vendor can change a system to meet user needs and the terms of any contracts, including agreed levels of reliability, maintainability, or availability.
Sustainable MIS Infrastructure
Identifies ways that a company can grow in terms of computing resources while simultaneously becoming less dependent on hardware and energy consumption. Supports sustainability.
Information MIS Infrastructure
Identifies where and how important information, such as customer records is maintained and secured. Supports operations.
Carbon Emissions
Includes the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, produced by business processes and systems.
Agile MIS Infrastructure
Includes the hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment that, when combined, provides the underlying foundation to support the organization's goals. Supports change.
MIS Infrastructure
Includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets.
Hybrid Cloud
Includes two or more private, public, or community clouds, but each cloud remains separate and is only linked by technology that enables data and application portability.
High Availability
Occurs when a system is continuously operational at all times.
Technology Failure
Occurs when the ability of a company to operate is impaired because of a hardware, software, or data outage.
Moore's Law
Refers to the computer chip performance per dollar doubling every 18 months.
E waste
Refers to the discard, obsolete, or broken electronic devices.
Sustainable MIS Disposal
Refers to the safe disposal of MIS assets at the end of their life cycle.
Availability
Refers to the time frames when the system is operational.
Accessibility
Refers to the varying levels that define what a user can access, view, or perform when operating a system.
Recovery
The ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure that includes restoring the information backup.
System Virtualization
The ability to present the resources of a single computer as if it is a collection of separate computers ("virtual machines"), each with its own CPUs, network interfaces, storage, and operating system.
Energy Consumption
The amount of energy consumed by business processes and systems.
Usability
The degree to which a system is easy to learn and efficient and satisfying to use.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
The delivery of a computer hardware capability including the use of servers, networking, and storage as a service, Pay-per-use. Customer rents hardware.
Incident Management
The process responsible for managing how incidents are identified and corrected.
Clean Computing
A subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment.
Emergency
A sudden, unexpected event requiring immediate action due to potential threat to health and safety, the environment, or property.
Vulnerability
A system weakness that can be exploited by a threat.
Cloud Fabric
The software that makes the benefits of cloud computing possible, such as multi-tenancy.
Backup
An exact copy of a system's information.
Cloud Fabric Controller
An individual who monitors and provisions cloud resources similar to a server administrator at an individual company.
Emergency Notification Service
An infrastructure built for notifying people in the event of an emergency.
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Brings together people from the industry, disability organizations, etc. to help make the web accessible to people with disabilities.
Green Personal Computer (Green PC)
Built using environment friendly materials designed to save energy.
Incident
Unplanned interruption of a service.
Administrator Access
Unrestricted access to the entire system.
Performance
Measures how quickly a system performs a process or transaction.
Grid Computing
A collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem.
Disaster Recovery Plan
A detailed process for recovering information or a system in the event of a catastrophic disaster.
Data Center
A facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.
Fault Tolerance
A general concept that a system has the ability to respond to unexpected failures or system crashes as the backup system immediately takes over with no loss of service.
Enterprise Architect
A person grounded in technology, fluent in business, and able to provide the important bridge between MIS and the business.
Business Impact Analysis
A process that identifies all critical business functions and the effect that. specific disaster may have upon them.
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.
Multi-Tenany
A single instance of a system serves multiple customers.
Failover
A specific type of fault tolerance, occurs when a redundant storage server offers an exact replica of the real-time data, and if the primary server crashes the users are automatically directed to the secondary server or backup server.
Disaster Recovery Cost Curve
Charts the cost to the company of the unavailability of information and technology and the cost to the company of recovering from a disaster over time.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Delivers applications over the cloud using a pay-per-use revenue model. Drivers: usability, cost savings, scalability, and flexibility.
Smart Grid
Delivers electricity using two-way digital technology.
Network
Is a communications system created by linking two or more devices and establishing a standards methodology in which they can communicate.
Server
Is a compute dedicated to providing information in response to requests. This is a specific form of network infrastructure.
Client
Is a computer designed to request information from a server. This is a specific form of network infrastructure.
Software
Is the set of instructions the hardware executives to carry out specific tasks.
Web Accessibility
Means that people with disabilities can also still use the web.
Dynamic Scaling
Means that the MIS infrastructure can be automatically scaled up or down based on needed requirements.
Failback
Occurs when the primary machine recovers and resumes operations, taking over from the secondary server.
Big Data as a Service (BDaaS)
Offers a cloud based big data service to help organizations analyze massive amounts of big data to solve business dilemmas.
Utility Computing
Offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity.
Disaster Recovering as a Service (DRaaS)
Offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster.
Public Cloud
Promotes massive, global, industrywide applications offered to the general public.
Maintainability/Flexibility
Refers to how quickly a system can transform to support environmental changes.
Portability
Refers to the ability of an application to operate on different devices or software platforms, such as different operating systems.
Capacity
Represents the maximum throughput a system can deliver.
Up Cycle
Reuses or refurbishes e waste and creates a new product.
Private Cloud
Serves only one customer or organization and can be located on the customers' premises or off the customer's premises.
Community Cloud
Servies a specifici community with common business models. security requirements, and compliance considerations.
Cloud Computing
Stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the internet rather than on a personal computer or server.
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Supports the deployment of entire systems, including hardware networking, and applications using a pay-per-use revenue model, minimizes operational costs and increased production.