Charles Stuart University: IT Infrastructure Management Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of IT Infrastructure Management at Charles Stuart University (CSU). Task A presents a SWOT analysis of CSU's current ICT services, focusing on strengths like active staff and online learning platforms, and weaknesses such as dependence on third-party services and aging infrastructure. Opportunities include leveraging technology for hardware savings and enhanced communication, while threats involve the evolving mobile computing market and potential impacts from external applications. Task B explores the impact of social media, discussing its effects on health, addiction, and its role in people's lives. The report concludes with short-term, mid-term, and long-term recommendations, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing functionalities, developing beta versions of applications, and formulating learning limits for students. The report draws on various research papers and online resources to support its findings and recommendations, offering insights into the challenges and opportunities within CSU's IT infrastructure.

IT Infrastructure
Management

TABLE OF CONTENT
TASK A................................................................................................................................................3
STRENGTHS..............................................................................................................................4
WEAKNESSES..........................................................................................................................4
OPPORTUNITIES .....................................................................................................................5
THREATS...................................................................................................................................5
Summary and Recommendations:..............................................................................................6
Short Term (Now).......................................................................................................................6
Mid Term (next 12 months)........................................................................................................6
Long Term (next 3 to 5 years).....................................................................................................6
TASK B................................................................................................................................................6
Social Media....................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................9

TASK A
Organization SWOT Template
Charles Stuart University (CSU) Date :
Description of current/new ICT service :
The CSU provides online learning using portals which helps students to enables the use of their
smartphones,tablets,desktop and laptops for virtual programs. Students and teachers both can use
and access online portal from everywhere and it includes support for learning , training's,
collaboration and administrative facilities at the entry point after the login in their devices.

STRENGTHS
 Staff is alert and active and involve in
the research , m learning innovations and
provide best practices.
 The CSU provides online leanings,
distance education for those who are
working and do their studies via online
environment (Bae, Jang and
Skibniewski, 2016). Researchers are also
use this online portal for their work and
communicate with the university using
web for better outputs. So this is better
more than to take any community and
adopt any application.
 The CSU has wireless network when the
students and teacher's are near to the
campus,they can use. This university has
a already include the mobile
infrastructure which consists
LMS,faculty,students and also facilitate
with social networking and other digital
services (Lewis 2014). CSU enables the
online education programs for a
considered time with the third party
applications like YouTube,Word Press
and interface with many teaching and
learning programs. Using this online
environment it decreased the burden
providing training to the academic staffs
and students.
 The leader of CSU love their university
powerful reputation, innovator in
learning and online environment.
 CSU has own application which develop
WEAKNESSES
 Using devices and desktop,CSU lacks
the internal structure to support the
learning which accessible through the
devices because of this students and
staffs is dependent on the third party
services i.e., YouTube and Word Press
for uploading contents.
 Using online portals,CSU does not
enough IT personal to devoting a group
exclusively to the development and
maintenance for a new details for long
term at the system.
 Some students confused for the different
different online portals. Any new thing
should be inoperable with the existing
infrastructure for the system (Miguel-
Alonso, and Lozano 2015).
 Using this wireless network all systems
are twisted with aging.
 Wider use of devices at the CSU puts
pressure on the WiFi.

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OPPORTUNITIES
 Using technology,students and faculties
use their own devices to university
supplied tools which leads in potential
hardware savings for the university.
 Using online portals,students and
faculties communicate and go for video
conferencing and other applications
which consists the data sharing and
decreased the cost for meeting and
transportation (Miguel-Alonso and
Lozano 2015).
 Devices raise the new innovation and
leanings for all the faculties and students
but more importantly for in the distance
education for those students who do their
studies and jobs.
THREATS
 The level of creativity for mobile
computing market difficult to anticipate
the mobiles, desktop and laptops or may
be browsers and OS will inter operable
with these devices who uses the these
will be accessing the network in the
future.
 This is accelerating an art at an
unprecedented cost for the ownership of
their own devices (J, and Lozano, 2015).
Many faculties and students use high
speed of internet and some uses an older
network.
 The CSU does not take guarantee from
the external applications such as twitter
which interface in the campus.
 Applications may impact on the the
operations and actions of CSU campus.

Summary and Recommendations:
Using devices it shows the presents of challenges and make more opportunity for CSU
everywhere in the earth(J, and Lozano, 2015). This extend the reach of many institutes like CSU
and at that time the expectations of students and faculties transformed in the relationship with
education providers and workers.
Short Term (Now)
Using the devices priority at first of the project is identify the functionalities and capabilities
for teaching and learning which consists as priority inside the applications and the
communication,to work with the staff of IT which establish media delivery to devices for access
the network and website,to promote and raise awareness of the existing CSU mobile applications
like Pebble-pad and tool for podcasting and to research the accessibility of internal and third party
uploaded content using LMS vendors like Blackboard and Moodle .
Mid Term (next 12 months)
In the middle term a beta version of the interface and application will be make by devices which
is less in demanding content like subject outlines,map for campus with location,calender's and the
messages center. Launching a simplifies version for the mobile app via iTunes and the Google play
store will give the help to ascertain the interest of student capability and the service which mostly
operate by the student (Kabir, Sadiq, and Tesfamariam ,2014).
Long Term (next 3 to 5 years)
A learning limits of students will be formulate so that faculties have the proper details for action
to involve take up the app,whether it is used by equally by all teams and most vitally users,
interaction with its resources (J, and Lozano, 2015). The final output for analytic data will provide
for to improve performance without breaching students priority by storing their personal
identifiable details.
TASK B
Social Media
Abstract

In this topic giving the details of social media and shows the effects and some health issues
with peoples that issues can arise in the peoples. So peoples have to alert and active whenever they
use social media. Some peoples feelings for social media (Van Dijck, J 2013).Social media is
connecting peoples with other peoples. Social media is not acceptable for the physician but they
have important object for relating to patients and practicing medicine.
Index Terms:
Social media and their uses,health issues like mental disease ,heart disease ,cancer etc. Use
of social media is disturbs their studies. Its not improving peoples performance and their talents.
Sharing and posting something on social media gives people popularity but also waste peoples
time .
The feelings of peoples for social media.
Introduction:
Today's a lot peoples use social media such as Facebook,Twitter,Tumbler etc. Social media
is populated so internet is spreading rapidly. The use of internet show us to live conveniently and
fast. Peoples use iPhone's,smartphones or any devices which can access to internet. These tools help
peoples to do social network easily (Van Dijck, 2013). This is used to contact friends,family and
other people does not matter the peoples place at they are. Using social media it can be abused if
people not use properly. So this is important to understand for peoples the use of social media.
Subtopics and supporting argument:
 Health problems
 Addiction of social sites
 Meetings
 Social isolation
 Behavior of people
 Outlook
 Disturbance in real life
Using social media interfere peoples real life and deep relationship and other because when
people are using social site they do not move mostly. This is okay on some level but peoples need to
active. As a output social media leads mental and physical disorders. Social media not helping
peoples for their talent and studies (Van Dijck, J 2013) Peoples think that sharing and posting
something on social websites gives them popularity but this is also waste their time. Use of too
much social sites it would be hard in progress for talents for peoples.
In today's generation for peoples avoiding social media is hard . Specially when the people
uses at least one time in a week but for long time it the peoples do not have to worry about wasting

time , false constraints and information which is not necessary. Encourage teenagers for do not
waste time on social media really change life for better. Social media is not misleading because it is
depends on the posting and sharing. From news and other sides also shares the unimportant
information to the peoples (Liu, Chen, J, Zhu , Zhang, and He, Y 2013). For examples:tom just got
new car interior. It may be good for some peoples who are alcoholic and spend their time to live
alive with world and they want to communicate their friends,family and other peoples. Peoples give
attention and focus on social sites but their impersonal behavior is not good and they do not have
time for serious thinking . Some peoples is addicted to social media like social status , their
appearances etc. It is a system which based on approval for social likes, validation , views ,
followers etc. This is orchestrated self absorbed judgment. Some peoples feel not free if they not
use social media.
Conclusion:
The above report emphasize the norms that use of social media is good to stay with your
friends ,family and other people but spending too much time on social media it make peoples lonely
and major health issues. So peoples need to be active and it causes the health issues. Social media is
not acceptable by the physicians but this is also important object for related to patients and
practicing medicine.