Category: Internet technology (IT)

Content Topic Report#3: IT Supplier
IT Supplier Research (125 pts)
The goal of this activity is for you to help you better understand the impact of industry to advance the growth of information technology on global commerce and consumer needs. In this activity, you will identify a large, private industry supplier of IT products and/or services on a global basis and conduct a short research study on it and then reporting your findings.
Steps to complete this activity:
Select a well-known provider of information technology products and/or services with a strong global presence. They may provide software, hardware, communication infrastructure, cloud-based infrastructure, technology services, or any combination of these sub-areas. (Note:  Your selected supplier needs to still be in business as a functioning organization.)
Name of the organization
Where it is located, including corporate headquarters and international locations
URL to its primary public-facing website
Why you selected this organization to research
Nature of its ownership (private, publicly-traded, pre-IPO, non-profit, government, open-source, etc.)
General description of its business and the names and short descriptions of selected products or services provided by this organization
Who do they primarily serve (consumers, government, industry, etc.)?
Major innovations or key discoveries coming out of their operations
Key challenges or opportunities to their ongoing success
Links to at least two publicly-available articles about this organization from the last 18 months
Any other comments or observations you’d like to provide
When you are done:
Your report can be submitted either as a word processing document (MS Word) or via shared link to an online version of your report (Googledocs, Office360, dropbox, etc.) that is posted to this course assignment folder: CTR#3 – Regional IT Supplier
Note: Be sure and include URL links (or similar) to the outside sources you used in your research.
How you will be assessed:
100 pts – Quality of the content with respect to the assignment’s description.
25 pts – Writing quality, grammar, and overall quality of organization and readability.

Discuss and/or Answer the question:
Given that there is no money to be made from open source code, why would a developer release software under an open source license? 

In this discussion you will evaluate the file management and memory management functions of a modern computer system and determine ways to improve these operations.
Part 1: Backup Files
In your initial discussion post, you will describe how computers organize and store files on the hard drive and other removable drives. Explain why backup files are important. Give at least one example scenario where backup files would be useful.
Summarize your current backup plan. Explain the methods and devices that you use, and describe how often you back up your files. Discuss any challenges that you have experienced making backups.
Part 2: Determine RAM
In addition, you will describe the role of random access memory (RAM) in a computer system. Compare computer memory (RAM) with hard drive storage. In the event of a power loss, compare what happens to information stored in RAM with information saved to the hard drive.
Use the internet to research how to determine the amount of RAM installed on your computer. List how much RAM is available and how much is currently in use. Compare how your computer would function if it had more RAM and less RAM.

As wireless and mobile technologies continue to grow in presence and popularity, the world is becoming more and more connected. Unfortunately, this also means that devices and networks are becoming more and more vulnerable to outside threats. Businesses must identify and mitigate these vulnerabilities and threats in order to protect employees’ personal information and ensure the organization is secure from passive leaking of proprietary information.
In this task you will assume the role of an IT professional who is responsible for identifying wireless and mobile vulnerabilities, as outlined in the scenario below. You will then present your findings and recommend solutions to mitigate these risks and prevent future threats.
SCENARIO
You are a network professional on the IT team at Alliah Company, a new but fast-growing social media provider. One year ago, Alliah launched a social media website aimed at young professionals. The company also released a mobile app for accessing the site from cellular devices. Alliah was able to launch its website with money generated by a crowd-funded campaign, but most of the funds were spent on the site and app development, with relatively little money (and time) devoted to the internal office network infrastructure.
Alliah has 35 full-time employees, all of whom have offices or shared work spaces in a three-story building that serves as the company headquarters. The building is an old warehouse that was converted for office use and is approximately 10,000 square feet. Currently, the employees occupy only two floors; the third floor is vacant and available for expansion.
The Alliah WLAN has a gigabit managed switch, a multiservice wireless LAN controller, and seven wireless access points strategically located to provide coverage to office staff. One access point services a large back patio area for employee use. The network is protected by a firewall. The Alliah website servers are located in a data center 100 miles from Alliah headquarters.
Five employees are account representatives who are on the road at least 80 percent of the time, and each rep has a company-issued laptop, tablet, and smartphone. They use a large, shared office in the headquarters building when they are not traveling.
Employees use company-owned computers that connect to the WLAN, and, in an effort to control costs during the launch, Alliah has a bring your own device (BYOD) policy.
The IT staff consists of five employees; three are devoted to website maintenance, one manages the headquarters’ computers and network, and another employee assists with the website and the office network. IT staff uses wired Ethernet connections to remotely access the website servers.
The Alliah website is successful, attracting more and more visitors each month. Jennifer, the CEO, anticipates hiring more employees and is considering a strategy that would take the company public within a few years. In preparation, she wants to ensure that Alliah’s wireless networking infrastructure is highly secure, especially because it may need to grow quickly in a short period of time, and she wants to understand the security risks the company faces. She also wants to decide if Alliah should continue allowing BYOD or restrict network access to company-owned devices only, or if a compromise solution is available.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
A.  Describe two WLAN vulnerabilities that present risks for Alliah, based on the details in the scenario.
B.  Describe two mobile vulnerabilities that present risks for Alliah, based on the details in the scenario.
C.  Summarize the steps for mitigating each  identified WLAN and mobile vulnerability, including the specific tools or documentation that will be needed for mitigation.
D.  Recommend preventive measures to maintain the security posture of WLAN and mobile environments in a small business, such as Alliah. Reference federal, state, or industry regulations that justify these measures.
E.  Recommend a solution for the company’s BYOD approach, including research to justify your recommendation.
F.  Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
G.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Many research assignment create an outline. I will send the information for this assignment. Please let me know if you can do it One source comes from successful people another source, for example, is related to healthcare. Something rent by researcher at the Clinton clinic at Harvard. Keep track of sources

The Rubric is attached. 
Please have 1–2 pages of design document, and 7–8 pages of screenshots for each prototype.

When one thinks of inventory, one may think of cans of goods (like vegetables) on a store shelf. In an office workspace, inventory usually means hardware and software and knowing what is where in your company. It is not usually the job of the average employee to come up with this inventory, but in many cases, the IT department will contact an employee to help them fill out their inventory documents so they can keep track of hardware or software in a company.
You have two parts to this assignment:
Part 1: In a minimum one-page document, describe the necessary components of a software inventory (not hardware for this assignment) and what needs to be included in such a document and the reason for those listings. If you don’t know what should be on a software inventory, do some research on one online.
Part 2: Using Microsoft Excel or another spreadsheet tool, create a simple one-page example of your version of the inventory (with sample headings and inventory information).
This assignment should be a minimum of two parts (two pages) – the description of the software inventory and the inventory spreadsheet example.

In this discussion forum, you will use ping and traceroute commands as tools for exploring how packets of information travel through networks.
Ping Activity
Follow the steps in the Guide to Ping and Traceroute Commands Download Guide to Ping and Traceroute Commandsto ping Google.com. Take a screenshot and document the results, including the number of packets sent, received, or lost and the range of response speeds.
Ping at least two other websites, choosing sites hosted in different regions of the world (for example, websites ending with .au or .cn or .jp would be hosted in Australia, China, or Japan, respectively). Take a screenshot and document the ping results for each website.
Traceroute Activity
Follow the steps in the Guide to Ping and Traceroute Commands Download Guide to Ping and Traceroute Commandsto run a traceroute to Google.com. Take a screenshot and document the results, including how many routers it passes through, how long it takes to hop from router to router, and if it fails before reaching its destination.
Run a traceroute to the same two websites you used in the ping activity. Take a screenshot and document the traceroute results for each website.
Traveling Through a Network Reflection Essay
Reflecting on your experience using the ping and traceroute commands, describe how packets travel through the network. Compare the ping and traceroute results from the different websites and explain how the paths to the different destinations differ. Make a conclusion about the relationship between the roundtrip time and geographical location.
Explain how the ping and traceroute commands can be used to troubleshoot internet connection problems. Give at least two possible reasons why a ping request or traceroute command might time out or return with an error response.

Using the information you found from part 1, right two to three page paper explaining the how information to the technology is being used in your field which I’m going to school for human services case management for drug and alcohol

For decades, relational databases remained essentially unchanged; data was segmented into specific chunks for columns, slots, and repositories, also called structured data. However, in this Internet of Things (IoT) era, databases need to be reengineered because the very nature of data has changed. Today’s databases need to be developed with the needs of IoT in mind and have the ability to perform real-time processing to manage workloads that are dynamic. For example, relational databases should be able to work with real-time data streaming and big data (an example was presented in the unit lesson).
Scenario: eHermes wants their personnel to be able to view security video footage in real-time and provide them with the ability to query video footage for viewing. Choosing a database solution such as MongoDB would allow eHermes to store mobile self-driving video footage in the same database as the metadata.
To do this, eHermes needs a way to manage the demands of real-time data streaming for real-time analytics. Conduct some research for a NoSQL database application such as MongoDB or Cassandra that could meet this need. How would switching to a real-time database solution help eHermes remain competitive? Create a PowerPoint presentation that does the following:
Provides a brief introduction to IoT.
Presents an argument to the eHermes CEO that switching to a more dynamic database structure (NoSQL real-time database) will meet the demands of IoT.
Introduces some features of the database you chose, whether it is MongoDB, Cassandra, or another database.
Describes how switching to a more dynamic database will give eHermes a competitive advantage?
Your presentation must be a minimum of six slides, and you must use at least two academic resources. Any information from a resource used must be cited and referenced in APA format.