Information and technology infrastructure
Information and technology infrastructure entails; software, services, the resources of the network, and the operations and the management enabling the IT to run. The infrastructure has a noble purpose to an operator, amongst its importance is that it makes it possible for the operator to deliver solutions and services to customers. Operations of a business that involves providing solutions to customers are also made possible by the IT infrastructure. Team processes refer to the associations that make it a success of the desired task. The team processes in IT is dynamic and action-oriented. The functions are made possible by incorporating the IT infrastructure, which its components are; hardware, software, communication systems, data resources, and people. The collaboration of these components and the IT infrastructure ensures the fulfillment of the desired goal of providing solutions and services to customers in a business venture.
Although the IT components’ collaboration is vital for accomplishing an intended goal (solutions and services), The hardware makes an immense contribution. The hardware entails physical technology that specifically deals with information. It includes components such as; desktops, keyboards, external disk drives, mouse, and the central process unit (CPU). Generally, it refers to the equipment Rensin, D. K. (2012). The hardware comprises many other internal parts, one of the most crucial parts is the motherboard, which powers and controls the computers.
The hardware can be of no use without the software. Software is the part of the computer that entails applications and programs that tends to contain instructions of what the hardware is supposed to do. It is designed that it can only work for a specific operating system. For instance, a program designed to function in Windows XP operating system may have compatibility strains under Windows NT. A software system is divided into two classes; the system software and the application software. The system software entails the drivers and diagnostic tools and enables the running of a computer system. In contrast, the application software consists of web browsing and word processing, and it helps the users to do their desired tasks. Programming languages develop software, converted into a form that is readable by the hardware.
Comparison between the hardware and the software
The software implements algorithms that make the computer capable of solving complex tasks while the hardware is designed to perform simple tasks. The rate of failure of software is minimal and systematic, while that of the hardware has high tendencies of failure, and it is random. Whereas the software is logic in nature, the hardware physical. The hardware’s functioning depends on the instructions loaded to the software, while the software has to be installed to the hardware for it to deliver its developed instructions.
A communication system refers to a system that enables the transfer of information. The transmission of information depends on some elements such as; Transmitter, medium, and the receiver of information. These elements are compatible technically as they use similar procedures, their response to controls is the same, and they operate in unison. Communication is successfully made by the signals that pass from a source to its destination through a channel Rensin D. K. (2012). The signals are processed in stages before it is transmitted through the communication system. It begins by the signal representation, then it is shaped, encoding, and finally modulated. During transmission, the signals are likely to experience distortion, and therefore it is necessary for channel calculations. There are various communication systems; optical, radio, Duplex, and half Duplex and tactical communication systems. All the modes enable us to understand the route of the flow of information from the sender to the recipient.
Data resources is a tool in the IT infrastructure that gives information about all the data available. There are different types of data sources. They include; Databases, flat files, web services, among others (Laan S. 2011). Data may either be unstructured, structured, or semi-structured. The forms of data have different storage forms. Unstructured data that involves pictures may be stored in the form of repository files in an organized directory on a hardware (computer) hard drive. The structured form of data is represented in tabular form. Often databases are as well used in this form of storage as it makes it easier to find the required information from well-defined rows and columns. Semi-structured data can be in a state of the above data; it is stored in files or documents.
Relationship between the data sources, hardware, and the software
The above tools are dependable. As initially discussed, the hardware entails the physical part of the computer. Simultaneously, the software is installed in the hardware for it to run. The data sources depend on both tools; specifically, the data’s storage is achieved in the computers and the activities such as structuring (tabulating) of the data.
Conclusion
The collaboration of the IT infrastructure and team processes is necessary for achieving an intended goal. The IT infrastructure depends on all the tools such that in the absence of one tool, for instance, of the hardware, the storage of documents and files cannot be possible.