IT Infrastructure Management

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IT Infrastructure Management
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction to the Organization:...........................................................................................2
2. Types of Data used by the organization:................................................................................2
2.1 Accessibility of data by the Staff Members:....................................................................3
2.2 IT infrastructure solutions for storing and accessing data:..............................................3
3. Network devices required for day by day activities:..............................................................4
3.1 Functions of the Identified devices:.................................................................................4
4. Application Software for Data Communication:...................................................................6
4.1 Justification of the answer:...............................................................................................6
5. Data Movement between the OSI layers:...............................................................................7
6. Conclusion:............................................................................................................................8
References:...............................................................................................................................10

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1. Introduction to the Organization:
The Datacom Group Limited is an information technology organization that provides
IS services to its customers and staffs which includes the database, webpage and email
services. Currently this organization provides various types of services to its customers which
includes consulting and management services, ITO services, cloud services, data centre
services, payroll services and software development services. This organization was firstly
started in New Zealand but later it was expanded to Australia, Vietnam, Malaysia and in
many other countries also. Various department of the Datacom uses the information
technologies in some different way. Considering the data centre services, here the
information technology is used as composed networked computer and storage (Putnam et al.
2014). The Datacom group also uses the information technology for the security purposes. In
this security related department information technology is used for implementing measures
and for designing the system that will safeguard important information regarding the
organization. Also, in the cloud service department the information technology is used for
transferring the data from one location to another location.
In this report various types of data that has been used by the organization will be
discussed briefly. The Datacom Group executes various type of activities day by day and for
that it requires many network devices. This network devices will be identified and discussed
in this case. Also, seven layers of the OSI model will be explained in this report regarding
opening the website of the organization.
2. Types of Data used by the organization:
Mainly in the organizations like Datacom Group digital data are used and exchanged.
Thus the main data which is used by Datacom Group are in the digital forms and these types
of data are the multimedia data including graphics, audio, images and videos. Also, there are

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other organization specific data are available within the organization that are used by the
exclusive software which runs within the organization. Apart from that, some uncommon
data which is used by the organization is the encrypted type of file including zip and rar files.
2.1 Accessibility of data by the Staff Members:
All the data stored within the organization can be accessed by the staff members of it.
In this organization all the data stored in a centralised type of database and this data can be
accessed by the staffs of the organizations using their individual computer system. For
accessing the data from the central server all the computers are connected to the central
server through different type of access network including Ethernet, FTTH, DSL and Wireless
LANs (Sikdar 2013). This access networks connects end system with the immediate routers.
2.2 IT infrastructure solutions for storing and accessing data:
There are various types of IT infrastructure are available for storing and accessing the
data at the database using the concept of networking. The main two IT infrastructure for
storing and accessing the data are the remote server IT infrastructure and the cloud computing
IT infrastructure. The remote server IT infrastructure is also known as the traditional type of
IT infrastructure (Masa’deh 2013).
In the remote server infrastructure model there are various types of hardware,
software and network equipment are used and all of this equipment are connected through the
remote server (Beverly and Berger 2015). This type of remote servers are mainly located in
the office premises which provides data access to all the employees of the organization
regarding business data and applications. Employees and the staffs are also able to store data
within this server by having proper access to the server.
Cloud computing IT infrastructure for accessing and storing data are quite different
compared with the remote server infrastructure. Cloud computer infrastructure are far more