IS Infrastructure and Strategy

Catalog description

This course provides foundation skills on information systems infrastructure and their implementation strategies. Topics include hardware, software, communications which includes networking such as LAN, WAN, and wireless; transaction support; facilities for business continuity and security; infrastructure management best practices; cloud, emerging, and edge technologies; risk management including compliance, sourcing, disaster planning, auditing, controls and standards. Looking at the technologies from single board computing, IoT, to SOHO to small corporate and global enterprises, and how infrastructure plays an essential role in corporate information systems, how it is developed and how it is part of corporate strategies. These strategies include local, campus, wide area, national and global implications.