IT Infrastructure Outlines

• Course Overview
– Main Objectives
– Reference Books
• Contact Information and Counseling Hours
• Grading Policy
Lecture # 1
• Introduction to IT Infrastructure

Dr. Muhammad Aamir Khan

Assistant Professor
Department of Informatics and Systems
School of Systems and Technology (SST)
University of Management and Technology

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Short Introduction about Me … Short Introduction about You …

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Course Overview Important Information

• Objective: This is a basic course where the main emphasis will be on • Counseling Hours and Contact Details:
Definition of IT Infrastructure, Non‐functional Attributes, Availability Concepts,
Sources of Unavailability, Availability Patterns. Performance. Security – Counseling Hours
Concepts. Data centers. Servers: Availability, Performance, Security. • 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Every Monday ‐ Friday)
Networking: Building Blocks, Availability, Performance, Security. Storage:
Availability, Performance, Security. Virtualization/Compute: Availability, – Contact Details
Performance, Security. Operating Systems: Building Blocks, Implementing
Various OSs, OS availability, OS Performance, OS Security. End User Devises: • Email: [email protected]
Building Blocks, Device Availability, Performance, Security. IT Infrastructure • Room: CB1‐504
Management. Service Delivery Processes. Service Support Processes. Ethics,
Trends, organizational and technical issues related to IT infrastructure. • Moodle and Lectures:
• Books: – When you will register for the course “IT Infrastructure” it will be
– IT Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and added automatically in your Moodle account as well.
concepts by Sjaak Laan, third edition.
– IT Infrastructure and its Management by Prof Phalguni Gupta
– Class lectures and any announcements will be uploaded on Moodle.
– IT Architecture for Dummies by Kalani Kirk Hausman and Susan Cook – It is your responsibility to check Moodle every day for any updates.
– You can consult other books and search internet ….

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 Grading Policy Your Attendance
• The division of the total marks for IT Infrastructure (100 marks = 100 %)
• Mark your attendance on the attendance sheet in every lecture.
will be as follows:
• If your name and roll number are not on the attendance sheet then you
– Attendance = 5 %
will be considered as absent.
• 75 % attendance is mandatory
• ≥ 90 % = 5, ≥ 85 % & < 90 % = 4, ≥ 80 % & < 85 % = 3, ≥ 75 % & < 80 % = 2,
< 75 % = 0 • Therefore, it is your responsibility to mark your attendance in every
– Quizzes = 15 % (Planned Quizzes) lecture.
– Assignments = 10 % (Planned)
– Mid‐Term Examination = 30 %
– Final Examination = 40 %
• NOTE: Minimum 50% marks will be required to pass the course.
• NOTE: It is mandatory to maintain at least 75% class attendance to be
allowed to sit in the Final Exam. Otherwise, you will get a SA grade.
• NOTE: You can withdraw course till 6th week from the start of the course.
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Introduction: This Course

• This course is about Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure
Architecture. Where infrastructure means “all hardware and system
software components needed to run IT applications”. And infrastructure
architecture describes the overall design and evolution of that
IT Infrastructure infrastructure.
• This course explains how infrastructure components work on an
architectural level. With architectural level is meant that the components
are described in building blocks, bound to specific technologies. Choices
made on this level are architecturally relevant, meaning that once choices
on building block level are made, it is relatively hard to change these
choices afterwards.
• For instance, the choice to use a certain network cable infrastructure in a
datacenter cannot be changed easily when the datacenter is in operation.

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Introduction: This Course Where Helpful?

• This course does not provide in‐depth details needed by technicians, but • Infrastructure architects and designers
instead describes the main architectural building blocks and concepts. • Software architects
• IT infrastructures are complex by nature and provide non‐functional • Systems managers
attributes, like performance, availability, and security, to applications. • IT managers
• This course describes each infrastructure building block and their specific • Computer science students
performance, availability, and security concepts.

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 Introduction Introduction
• During the first decades of IT development, most infrastructures were
relatively simple. While applications advanced in functionality and • Organizations benefit from flexible and agile infrastructure architecture
complexity, hardware basically only got faster. that require infrastructure to be:
• In recent years, IT infrastructures become more complicated – Solid
– New types of applications: – Scalable
• E‐commerce – Modular
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) • Architecture is crucial to control the infrastructure when it is designed, in
• Data Warehousing use, and when it is changed.
• Big data • The market demands a degree of flexibility that can no longer be
• The Internet of Thing supported by infrastructures that are inconsistent and hard to expand. We
• Mobility need infrastructures that are constructed with standardized, modular
• Cloud computing components. And to make infrastructures consistent and in line with
• Most current infrastructure landscapes are complex business needs, architecture is crucial.
– The result of a history of application implementation projects
– Specialized hardware and infrastructure components
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Next Lecture Questions?

• In the next lecture(s) we will discuss more about IT Infrastructure and
different Terminologies.

Any questions?

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