Information Technology can roughly be
defined as, “The study or use of systems (especially computers and
telecommunications for storing, retrieving and sending information.
There are several industries which get classified under this
synonymous umbrella including computer hardware, software,
electronics, semiconductors, internet, telecom equipment, e-commerce
and computer services.
Human have been storing information in
various forms from the time of civilization, but as time has gone by
there has been advances and changes in the systems of storing energy,
innovation occur at a dynamic pace. As of 2007 almost 94% of the data
stored worldwide was held digitally: 52% on hard disks, 28% on
optical devices and 11% on digital magnetic tape. It has been
estimated that the worldwide capacity to store information on
electronic devices grew from less than 3 exabytes in
1986 to 295 exabytes in 2007, doubling roughly every 3 years.
Database management systems emerged in
the 1960s to address the problem of storing and retrieving large
amounts of data accurately and quickly. One of the earliest such
systems was IBM's Information
Management System (IMS), which is still widely deployed
more than 40 years later.
There is a lot of data and information
that is developed and maintained on a daily basis. We live in an age
of electronic and digital world. Traditional business applications
have always been very complicated and expensive. The amount and
variety of hardware and software required to run them are daunting.
You need a whole team of experts to install, configure, test, run,
secure, and update them.
Business applications are moving to the
cloud. It’s not just a fad—the shift from traditional software
models to the Internet has steadily gained momentum over the last 10
years. In the next decade of cloud computing promises new ways to
collaborate everywhere, through mobile devices.
Cloud computing is just a shift from
traditional computing that gives businesses on-demand access to a
variety of software and services while giving IT a shared pool of
configurable computing resources at the platform, infrastructure and
application layers. When done right, cloud computing helps businesses
do more, faster by letting them tap into the power of massive
datacenters and IT services without having to build, manage or
maintain them.
Cloud computing lets IT offload
complexity and burden, letting an organization focus on addressing
the growing demand for new applications, new devices and new
solutions for the resulting data explosion. In this fast-paced world
of more devices, more apps and more data, IT is more challenging and
exciting than ever. IT can answer this call for “more, faster”
with cloud computing – so with cloud an organization can deliver
new projects and products, manage more devices easily, crunch more
data quickly, and spin up developments and test environments faster.
The latest innovations in cloud
computing are making our business applications even more mobile and
collaborative, similar to popular consumer apps like Facebook and
Twitter. As consumers, we now expect that the information we care
about will be pushed to us in real time, and business applications in
the cloud are heading in that direction as well.
The cloud applications we're seeing at
the moment really are the tip of the iceberg and, as the technology
matures further, who
knows how we may be using the cloud in even a year from now.
Technologies and concepts such as the internet
of things and smart cities are growing ever closer to
becoming the norm as organizations begin to realize that the cloud
can do so much more than simply speed up or reduce the cost of their
IT - it can totally transform it.
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