Exam 29: B: Extension: A Sustainable Mis Infrastructures

Corporate social responsibility is a company's acknowledged responsibility to __________.

Virtualization is a collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem.

Community cloud serves a specific community with common business models, security requirements, and compliance considerations.

What offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity?

A data center is a facility used to house management information systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.

Utility computing offers a pay-per-use revenue model similar to a metered service such as gas or electricity.

Cloud computing delivers electricity using two-way digital technology and is meant to solve the problem of outdated electrical grids.

Gordon Moore, cofounder of Intel, observed in 1965 that continued advances in technological innovation made it possible to reduce the size of a computer chip while doubling its capacity every two years.

Corporate social responsibility is a subset of sustainable MIS, refers to the environmentally responsible use, manufacture, and disposal of technology products and computer equipment.

What offers backup services that use cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by disaster?

What are the ramifications of improper electronic recycling, when analyzing the example of a single desktop computer?

Upcycle refers to discarded electronics and is growing with the growth of innovation, for example, a personal computer has a life expectancy of only three to five years and a cell phone is less than two years.

Cloud fabric is the software that makes the benefits of cloud computing possible, such as multitenancy.

What is storage virtualization?

What occurs when each customer or tenant must purchase and maintain an individual system?

What is built using environment friendly materials and designed to save energy?

Sustainable, or green, MIS describes the production, management, use, and disposal of technology in a way that minimizes damage to the environment.

Grid computing is a collection of computers, often geographically dispersed, that are coordinated to solve a common problem.

Storage virtualization combines the physical resources, such as servers, processors, and operating systems, from the applications.

Cloud computing stores, manages, and processes data and applications over the Internet rather than on a personal computer or server.