CIS 500 Info System Decision Making Paper

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Goodman, Jeremy Dr. Charles Watkins CIS 500 Info System Decision Making June 15, 2014 Goodman, Jeremy Dr. Charles Watkins CIS 500 Info System Decision Making June 15, 2014 Week 10 Term Paper Mobile Computing and Social Networks Week 10 Term Paper Mobile Computing and Social Networks Abstract Mobile computing innovations have seen the rise of Android and iPhone platforms where third-party developers have developed hundreds of thousands of apps that run on these devices. The popularity of these applications led businesses to ponder whether some of their business process applications that run on desktop platforms and the Web could be redesigned to run on mobile devices. Abstract Mobile computing innovations have seen the rise…show more content…
High application availability requires that business critical processes continue to run and users continue to experience uninterrupted access in the event of planned and unplanned outages or circumstances. Some of the challenges to providing high availability include: Ensuring uninterrupted application experience in the event one or more servers become overloaded or unresponsive. Maintaining 24/7 connectivity between networks. Routing request to redundant data centers in the event of local disruptions. Increased frequency of backups and replication to better mirror data and enabling a more seamless failover to redundant data centers. And access to business applications from anywhere and any devices to ensure business continuity. Designing for availability is about anticipating, detecting, and automatically resolving hardware or software failures before they result in service errors, event faults, or data corruption, thereby minimizing downtime. The technology part of the solution requires multiple routes to application services and data. The operational part of the solution is to use only tested, proven processes to support the application throughout its entire lifecycle. While availability engineering is mostly about reducing unplanned downtime, reducing planned downtime is also important. Such planned downtime may include maintenance changes, operating…show more content…
Because mobile devices are subjected to hacking at a higher rate than non-mobile devices, the issue becomes more prevalent as the adoption rate of smartphones and other various mobile devices increases. In both the public and private sectors, workers are increasingly creating and sharing information with mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets. It is not uncommon to see employees using these devices to accomplish work for their employers. While this is increasing productivity, without the right protections in place, it can also introduce cyber security threats (Robb, 2011). When you have deployed an application to mobile devices, device users have access to data in the application database. While data is on the device, it is less secure than data that is in the database on your server. However, there are measures that you can take to make your data more secure. There are two main areas of focus pertaining to securing mobile devices, physical security and content

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