Thursday, April 13, 2017

Word of the Day: infrastructure

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Daily updates on the latest technology terms |April 13, 2017
infrastructure

Infrastructure is the foundation or framework that supports a system or organization. In computing, infrastructure is composed of physical and virtual resources that support the flow, storage, processing and analysis of data. Infrastructure may be centralized within a data center, or it may be decentralized and spread across several data centers that are either controlled by the organization or by a third party, such as a colocation facility or cloud provider.

In a data center, infrastructure includes the power, cooling and building elements necessary to support hardware. On the internet, infrastructure also includes transmission media, such as network cables, satellites, antennas, routers, aggregators, repeaters and other devices that control data transmission paths. Cloud computing provides a flexible IT infrastructure in which resources can be added and removed as workloads change.

 

The way IT infrastructures are created is continually changing. Today, some vendors provide pre-engineered blocks of compute, storage and network equipment that optimize the IT hardware and virtualization platform into a single system that can be easily interconnected to other systems. This modular approach is called converged infrastructure.

Regardless of how it is created, an IT infrastructure must provide a suitable platform for all the necessary IT applications and functions an organization or individual requires. Viewing IT infrastructure as a single entity can result in better effectiveness and more efficiency. It allows resources to be optimized for different workloads, and the impact of any changes on interrelated resources to be more readily understood and handled.

Quote of the Day

"The future of IT infrastructure is to create and support resource groupings that support VMs, containers and serverless platforms." - Keith Townsend

 

Trending Terms

converged infrastructure
cloud infrastructure
wireless WAN
colocation
Infrastructure as a Service

 
Learning Center

The real future of IT infrastructure lies in abstraction
Containers are just a stopgap as the future of IT infrastructure increasingly heads to abstraction between servers and the 'serverless' services that use them.

Four infrastructure technologies to watch in 2017
Cloud, NFV and hyper-convergence will be among the most important infrastructure technologies to be deployed in the next 12 months, writes Andrew Froehlich.

Brace your infrastructure for a microservices approach
Despite microservice benefits, such as faster deployment and better scalability, enterprises need to prepare for their impact on the underlying infrastructure and network.

Five hybrid IT infrastructure breaking points
Learn the five biggest challenges presented by hybrid IT infrastructure running business-critical apps, and how to approach them with the right tools.

Use infrastructure as code to simplify hybrid, multicloud management
When using infrastructure as code for hybrid and multicloud management, make sure it keeps its own identity from DevOps.

Writing for Business

_________ of the cost, we should seriously think about moving to a converged infrastructure.
A. Irregardless
B. Regardless
Answer

 

 

 

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