Lamond 2000
by Fred Lamond
Description
Current technological tendencies in communications bandwidth, networks, Intranets, Internet and eBusiness; server architectures and operating systems; PCs and thin clients, objects and program development tools; databases, transaction and analytical processing: what are today's standards, how are they evolving, and what strategies should you pursue?
What you will learn
Key questions addressed:
- Internet and eBusiness: what security precautions are essential?
- IP, universal communication protocol?
- SMS, WAP, GPRS or UMTS for accessing the Internet from portable telephones?
- SMP, parallel, clustered or NUMA multiprocessor servers?
- Intel IA-32, EPIC, Alpha, UltraSPARC or PowerPC?
- The eBusiness explosion: what are ist consequences for IT?
- Centralised or distributed databases?
- Notes/Domino or Exchange/Outlook for Email and groupware?
- How much bandwidth on wide (WAN) and local area networks (LAN)?
- Will Intel's IA-64 architecture replace all other microprocessor architectures?
- Cable networks, ADSL on local loop, wireless or electric power lines for Internet access?
- Network attached storage (NAS) or Storage area networks (SAN)?
- Voice over IP (VoIP): what quality of service (QoS) on private and public networks?
- PC or thin clients: which has the lowest ownership costs?
- Which desktop operating system?
- AS/400, Unix, Windows or Linux?
- How can mobile telephones and wireless communications be integrated with current networks?
- Centralised or distributed databases?
- Relational, object-oriented or multidimensional databases?
- How can one get around the local telephone loop monopoly?
- Which Enterprise resource planning (ERP) package, which program development tools?
- C++, Visual Basic or Java for desktop applications?
- Java: programming language or application platform?
- How can perational and decision support systems be integrated?
- Centralised or distributed network management: with what tools?
- How will the information processing profession evolve?
- The Information Processing Manager's new role.
Main Topics
- The Internet and Networks
- The Internet's Impact on Information Systems
- Electronic Business on the Internet
- The growing bandwidth in LANs, WANs and public networks.
- Carrier Services
- Databases and Applications Development
- Database strategies
- Operation applications and the Web
- Groupware and Decision Support tools
- Object oriented programming and it's applications
- Server and Information System Strategies
- Server architectures and their applications
- Server operating systems
- Network and System Administration
- Pc, Workstation and Workgroup Strategies
- Desktop strategies
- Future microprocessor architectures
- Desktop and workgroup operating systems
- The IT industry's changing structure and long term future