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* * Business computing is increasingly moving from PCs and desktops to mobile devices, and managers are increasingly using these to coordinate work and communicate with employees. Students may think the iPhone they own is just a phone, or music player, but for businesses it is along with Blackberries an important management tool. * Both grid computing and cloud computing allow organizations to optimize their use of resources in new ways. Grid computing allow corporations to take advantage of spare computing power in the form of networked virtual supercomputers, and cloud computing allows organizations to avoid the expenses of maintaining their own hardware and software, relying on the cloud instead. Refer students to the Cloud Computing Learning Track on the Web site. * Emphasize that not only is there an environmental concern, but there is also the incentive to reduce costs by developing more efficient and environmentally-friendly methods of powering systems. It is within the ability of almost any firm to take measures to ‘go green’ with their computing. Virtualization is mentioned in the case as an effective way to reduce the total computing resources required to run applications. * Autonomic computing and virtualization are both methods of allocating resources more efficiently at the technological level (the previous slide describes technologies with a more organizational focus). * * Linux plays a major role in the administration of local area networks. Around 20 percent of the server operating system market is owned by Linux. Ask students to give reasons why an open-source operating system might be a better choice for network administrators than alternatives that are not open-source (such as Microsoft’s Windows server). Java is designed to run on any computing device. This includes mobile devices like smartphones. * Firms are collections of thousands of computer programs and systems built over many years. In general, these systems cannot “talk” with one an