第5章节信息基础设施和新兴技术20141012.ppt

参考资料 Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane P. Laudon. Management Information Systems: managing the digital firm, 9th Edition Pearson - Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2006 肯尼斯. 劳顿，简. 劳顿 箸. 薛华成 编译. 管理信息系统. 北京：机械工业出版社，2011. Challenge: fragmented, high-cost IT infrastructure slowed down market and customer response times Solutions: integrated storage area network to enable the flow of information among different types and brands of computer servers Reduce number of servers from 107 to 70 Illustrates the importance of IT infrastructure for achieving business objectives * Explain the importance of the exponential growth in hard drive capacity, which is that the world is producing an increasing amount of digital information requiring storage each year as well. Fortunately, the cost of storing that information is decreasing at an even quicker rate. * Explain that this figure displays the number of kilobytes of data that can be stored with one dollar. Point out that the Y axis is greatly compressed to display the doubling effect, and that if it weren’t, the increase from year to year would become increasingly enormous. * Ask students to explain the implications of Metcalfe’s law to social networks, such as Facebook and MySpace. Do they agree that the more members are using the site, the value of being a member and the usefulness of the site grows? Do people make “new friends” on a social site or hang out with their existing friends mostly? * Are students aware of any friends or family that do not have Internet access? You might ask them to remember ‘life before the Internet’, if possible, to underscore the magnitude of how far communication and computing has come over time. * Emphasize to students how close the cost per kilobit has come to 0 since 1995. What implications does this have for the number of people using the Internet? You could once again relate this to the digital divide and emphasize that even now a significant portion of the world lacks access to the Internet and oth