BUS 188: Chapter 6 Outline

Matthew Mercado

07/23/16

BUS 188 (11:00am-3:00pm)

Chapter 6 Outline (2 page minimum)

Aggarwal

Chapter 6 Outline

            When working on group papers/presentations, groups usually try to find the time to work on each of their parts whenever they can. Prior to the introduction of Google Drive, they would have to interchange and edit parts so that the workload was above satisfactory, everyone contributed, and that the workload wasn’t lackluster. Life was made much easier with Google Drive, a file storage that is synced by Google that allowed people to work together on a paper/presentation at the same time. Peer edits can be made instantaneously and Google even incorporated a chat function that allowed people to converse online while doing peer editing. It made things a lot easier for group work and it allowed us to share information without there being any delay.

            This brings us to the term of Cloud, the elastic leasing of pooled computer resources over the Internet. Everything from music files to word documents were all stored in a specific location where it could be accessed. When we say elastic, it means that the computing resources leaded could increase or decrease dynamically. The amount of time it takes to edit a group paper by hand is much more time consuming that if the paper existed on the cloud and a group member could offer their inputs right away. Another thing to take note of is if the resources used on the Cloud are considered pooled because, for the most part, it is shared because organizations use the same physical hardware through virtualization. Everything that exists on the Cloud is shared and, much like a safe, is only accessible to the users. The Internet has become a tool for the future and you could say that Cloud is a provider, it pools in resources to help aid in the development of ideas via data. The services provided over the Internet have become such a powerful asset that there’s nothing you can’t learn just by accessing the Internet.

            Cloud has garnered much support from computer networks, a collection of computers that communicate with one another over transmission lines or wirelessly. There are 4 basic types of networks associated with the Cloud and these include: Personal Area Network (PAN), Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), and the Internet and Internets. PAN is a group of devices connected around a single person. LAN is a group of computers connected at a single physical site. WAN are computers connected between two or more separated sites. Lastly, the Internet and the Internets is a network of networks. The main distinction between LANs and WANs is that LAN can place communication lines wherever because all lines reside on its premises whereas WAN contracts with a communication vendor licensed by the government that has lines. The Internets connects LANs, WANs, and other Internets and with the network making up a large variety of communication methods and conventions, the details of protocol are beyond the scope of the text. Protocol is a set of rules and data structures for organizing communication. For example, computers use protocol because it exchanges data. When you’re talking with someone via chat, the computer it exchanging data from one end to another. People in general follow protocol because it follows a structure that is easy to understand and without it, there’s no communication.

            Referring back to PAN, an example of protocol associated with PAN is Bluetooth. Bluetooth is designed for transmitting data over short distances. Bluetooth can now connect to multiple devices such as desktop computers, keyboards, printers, headphones, and even smart cars. For example, when I turn on the Bluetooth option on my IPhone, I have access to listen to music or make phones via my car because it is transmitting data from my phone to the car. My car even syncs up my phone contacts as well as the library of music. Another example would be when printing from a Macbook, you could use Bluetooth to transmit data to print the document. Everything nowadays is becoming Bluetooth enables because it makes it much easier for the data to transfer over.

            The Internet’s profound influence over the world continues to evolve each and every day. From the number of websites to the amount of browser search every second, the Internet has become vast in nature.  The amount of information that exists online is so vast that it’d be impossible to know every single thing because information keep updating, changing, and most of all evolving. Each and every website has an address that identifies a specific number that identifies that the website. All of these websites are controlled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Under the ICANN, the amount of websites that exist now is limitless. Take for example the website Youtube, a video streaming service. Youtube, initially starting out in 2005, was relatively small and in the span of just 11 years, it has become the global video-sharing website that everyone uses daily. Another would renowned website is  Facebook, which initially started in 2004 and was meant for college students, but now it’s become a phenomenon for social networking and is one of the most profitable online services. This only comes to show how far technology has come and how the implementation of the Cloud has only furthered the way we access anything on the world wide web.