IT Infrastructure: Importance of Virtualization and Cloud Computing

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IT Infrastructure
Introduction
The world is changing to be a global village (Armbrust, et al. 2010, 50). It means that the
internet is growing every single day and every single minute. Every day, people are bringing
something new to the market concerning a certain product. The current situation is that all
businesses are in the era of digital disruption. Digital disruption is a period where there are
thorough technology advancements in the world. If a business does not appreciate and integrate
technology in their Companies, then the businesses are doomed to fail. Digital disruption cannot
be avoided, the only way is to use that opportunity. The IT infrastructure in a Company is of
importance. The better the IT strategy, the better the way processes will be done in the company.
The Company of the context is the Chesapeake IT Company which is responsible for delivering
IT services and advice.
CIC IT Infrastructure
Technology evolves daily hence a Company like CIC needs to be updated to be able to
compete in the competitive environment (Berl, Gelenbe, Di Girolamo, Giuliani, De Meer, Dang
and Pentikousis, 2010, 1050). The business strategy of the company is to provide excellent
services to their clients by employing qualified candidates at the shortest time possible. Checking
the strategy, there is the need of the Company to have the best IT designs and infrastructures. A
company cannot give advice and other technology services if they are not in the current loop
according to the technology. Their software’s need to be advanced and secured according to the
latest security since threats are there every single day. They should deliver systems to their

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customers which are fully functional, easy to use, fast, attracting user interface and secured
systems (Bhardwaj, Jain and Jain, 2010, 60).
There are the current IT designs used in the company. From the strategy, the company
first goal is to employ qualified candidates who can offer the services that they deliver
(Bourguiba, Haddadou, El Korbi and Pujolle, 2014, 680). They have a manual system in which
they can employ candidates through the recruiters. It is not an effective system as per now. The
system involves the candidates get the news that the company needs new employees from the
social media, printed papers or the company website. One of the advantages of this is that the
employees can get the information from all over the world and apply for the positions. The only
problem is that people can even apply from all over the world but the applying process will be a
bit complicated. When people get the news of the job applications, they apply for the positions
through letter carriers which take time to be delivered to the Company. It means that the
company will experience delays. The people who have applied will also experience feedback
delays. This is not the best system to be used in such a Company. It is an IT company, it means
that the infrastructure should be high level (Callegati, Cerroni, Contoli, and Santandrea, 2014,
135).
One important sector in an organization is the database management (Drutskoy, Keller,
and Rexford, 2013, 20). The database management is also changing. Sometimes back and to
date, people are using relational database management. In RDBMS the data in the database are
organized in a table like a manner. It is the database used by this company. Such a company
should use the modern databases. The relational databases have an issue while adding the data
and accessing the data. The databases are also very slow while retrieving the data. In case the
database is destroyed, there can be no retrieval of these informations. The data goes and

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disappears forever. The only advantage of such a database is that it is very easy to install
configure at first (Keahey, Figueiredo, Fortes, Freeman and Tsugawa, 2014, 830).
The largest part of the organization is the development sector which has all the
developers (Kumar and Charu, 2015, 00). The work of developers is to develop systems and
applications that can be used by their clients according to their needs. These people need to
develop systems that qualify and meet the standards to make them be used in the market. There
are different models used in software development but the most advanced one should be the one
in the use. There are other models if used can lead to time wastage and defective systems. Some
of the models not used include the waterfall models and others. The developers are also
specialized in their own specific fields. The developer’s fields include web development, mobile
applications, database management and security engineering. All these developers work together
to make sure they develop programs as per the requirements. Developers use different
frameworks to make their work easier. Giving an example, PHP developers may use LALAVEL
framework or code igniter framework. The mobile applications guys use the Android studio to
develop the Android mobile applications (Malhotra, Agarwal and Jaiswal, 2014, 00).
These developers are equipped in a way they can use different languages and make
responsive applications (Phelan, Cota-Robles, Barry, and Back, VMware Inc, 2017, 270). A
front-end developer, for example, can use JavaScript and its libraries which include JQuery
libraries. Backend developers use the PHP language together with the mentioned frameworks
while some use Python together with Django and Flask Frameworks (Rankothge, Le, Russo, and
Lobo,2015, 90). The Security and System administrators are of importance in such a Company.
The Operating System mostly used in the organization is the Linux. The reason why the OS is
used it is that it is more secure and requires skills to use. It shapes the developers as they