IT Infrastructure Architecture - Infrastructure Building Blocks and Concepts Third Edition

This book explains the concepts history and implementation of IT infrastructures. Although many of books can be found on each individual infrastructure building block this is the first book to describe all of them: datacenters servers networks storage operating systems and end user devices. The building blocks described in this book provide functionality but they also provide the non-functional attributes performance availability and security. These attributes are explained on a conceptual level in separate chapters and specific in the chapters about each individual building block. Whether you need an introduction to infrastructure technologies a refresher course or a study guide for a computer science class you will find that the presented building blocks and concepts provide a solid foundation for understanding the complexity of today's IT infrastructures. This book can be used as part of IT architecture courses based on the IS 2010.4 curriculum.