IT Infrastructure Evolution of IT Infrastructure

Prepared by Mahmoud Alahmed

EMC/VCE Channel Manager at Al Jammaz Distribution

Agenda

• What is IT Infrastructure

• Evolution of IT infrastructure

• Stages of IT infrastructure Evolution

• Component of IT Infrastructure

• IT Infrastructure Ecosystem

• Summary

What is IT Infrastructure

• All hardware and software components that are needed to deliver IT Services to customers.

Evolution of IT infrastructure

• General-purpose mainframe and minicomputer era: 1958 to present • 1958 IBM first mainframes introduced, eventually used to support

thousands of online remote terminals

• Personal computer era: 1981 to present • 1981 Introduction of IBM PC

• Client/server era: 1983 to present • Desktop clients networked to servers, with processing work split

between clients and servers

• Enterprise Internet computing era: 1992 to present • It’s the internet era where people start recognize the online word or the

WWW.

• Cloud Computing: 2000 to present • Model of computing where firms and individuals obtain computing

power and software applications over the Internet

Stages of IT infrastructure Evolution

Stages of IT infrastructure Evolution

Component of IT Infrastructure • Computer hardware platforms

• Client Machines • Servers • Mainframes

• Operating system platforms • Client side • Server side

• Enterprise software applications • Data management and storage

• Database software • Physical data storage

• Networking/telecommunications platforms • Network or communication hardware • Network operation system

• Internet platforms • Hardware servers • Web development tools

• Consulting system integration services

IT Infrastructure Ecosystem

Summary

• What is IT Infrastructure

• IT Infrastructure component

• IT Infrastructure Stages