ITM 472 Indiana Wesleyan University Computer Science Paper
Description
ITM 472: Information Technology Service Management
Getting Started
A data center is a place to house computer servers that software applications run on. You can have internal data centers or use servers that are provided by a vendor like Amazon Web Services.
Software engineer standing beside server racks in a data center.
Indiana University’s “Big Red 200” data center went online in January 2020. It is a “supercomputer designed to support scientific and medical research, and advanced research in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics.” How fast is it? According to their publicity materials, if everyone who lives in the state of Indiana performed one calculation per second 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, it would take them 28 years to perform the same number of calculations that Big Red 200 can do in just one second!
So yes, literally…the entire university and much of the town could be wiped out by a massive tornado, but the computer infrastructure would keep running and they could restore full computing operations within a half-hour of a serious outage and run for 4-5 days until external power and utilities infrastructure could be restored. More info (& technical specifications): https://kb.iu.edu/d/brcc (new tab)
The OmniSOC at Indiana University’s data center is a Secure Operations Center (SOC), a cybersecurity system shared by 5 universities. Its aim is to help members reduce the time from first detection of a security threat to campus mitigation. The computing power of these racks is incredible: Each cluster is capable of handling about a billion events of data per day and has 100 Tb of SSD-backed storage per cluster. More info: https://omnisoc.iu.edu/about/ (new tab) (Image credit: David J. Swisher, Copyright © 2020; used by permission.)
Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:
Analyze successful versus failed outsourcing projects.
Compare and contrast the outcomes of the projects.
Evaluate the structure, functions and operations of a data center.
Instructions
Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
Review the following articles to learn more about the components of a data center:
Indiana University Unveils Supercomputer Big Red 200 (new tab) (be sure to watch the embedded video)
15 Components of a Data Center – Simplicable (new tab)
Research your own information about Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Locate two sources that are less than five years old that have IaaS as the topic.
Write a two-page paper as a memo to your boss on the topic of IaaS with the following criteria:
Cover what you get from a service vendor for infrastructure and/or pros and cons of having a data center on-premises vs in the cloud.
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