IT Infrastructure Last Lecture

• Course Overview
– Main Objectives
– Reference Books
• Contact Information and Counseling Hours
• Grading Policy
Lecture # 2
• 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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Outlines Short Introduction about Me …

• Course Overview
– Main Objectives
– Reference Books
• Contact Information and Counseling Hours
• Grading Policy

• This Course
• Introduction to IT Infrastructure
• The Definition of IT Infrastructure

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Short Introduction about You … Course Overview

• Objective: This is a basic course where the main emphasis will be on
Definition of IT Infrastructure, Non‐functional Attributes, Availability Concepts,
Sources of Unavailability, Availability Patterns. Performance. Security
Concepts. Data centers. Servers: Availability, Performance, Security.
Networking: Building Blocks, Availability, Performance, Security. Storage:
Availability, Performance, Security. Virtualization/Compute: Availability,
Performance, Security. Operating Systems: Building Blocks, Implementing
Various OSs, OS availability, OS Performance, OS Security. End User Devises:
Building Blocks, Device Availability, Performance, Security. IT Infrastructure
Management. Service Delivery Processes. Service Support Processes. Ethics,
Trends, organizational and technical issues related to IT infrastructure.
• Books:
– IT Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and
concepts by Sjaak Laan, third edition.
– IT Infrastructure and its Management by Prof Phalguni Gupta
– IT Architecture for Dummies by Kalani Kirk Hausman and Susan Cook
– You can consult other books and search internet ….

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 Important Information Grading Policy
• The division of the total marks for IT Infrastructure (100 marks = 100 %)
• Counseling Hours and Contact Details:
will be as follows:
– Counseling Hours
– Attendance = 5 %
• 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Every Monday ‐ Friday) • 75 % attendance is mandatory
– Contact Details • ≥ 90 % = 5, ≥ 85 % & < 90 % = 4, ≥ 80 % & < 85 % = 3, ≥ 75 % & < 80 % = 2,
• Email: [email protected] < 75 % = 0
• Room: CB1‐504 – Quizzes = 15 % (Planned Quizzes)
• Moodle and Lectures: – Assignments = 10 % (Planned)
– When you will register for the course “IT Infrastructure” it will be – Mid‐Term Examination = 30 %
added automatically in your Moodle account as well. – Final Examination = 40 %
– Class lectures and any announcements will be uploaded on Moodle. • NOTE: Minimum 50% marks will be required to pass the course.
– It is your responsibility to check Moodle every day for any updates. • 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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Your Attendance
• Mark your attendance on the attendance sheet in every lecture.
• If your name and roll number are not on the attendance sheet then you
will be considered as absent.

• Therefore, it is your responsibility to mark your attendance in every

IT Infrastructure
lecture.

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Introduction: This Course Introduction: This Course

• This course is about Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure • This course does not provide in‐depth details needed by technicians, but
Architecture. Where infrastructure means “all hardware and system instead describes the main architectural building blocks and concepts.
software components needed to run IT applications”. And infrastructure • IT infrastructures are complex by nature and provide non‐functional
architecture describes the overall design and evolution of that attributes, like performance, availability, and security, to applications.
infrastructure. • This course describes each infrastructure building block and their specific
• This course explains how infrastructure components work on an performance, availability, and security concepts.
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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 Where Helpful? Introduction
• During the first decades of IT development, most infrastructures were
• Infrastructure architects and designers relatively simple. While applications advanced in functionality and
• Software architects complexity, hardware basically only got faster.
• Systems managers • In recent years, IT infrastructures become more complicated
• IT managers – New types of applications:
• Computer science students • E‐commerce
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Data Warehousing
• Big data
• The Internet of Thing
• Mobility
• Cloud computing
• Most current infrastructure landscapes are complex
– The result of a history of application implementation projects
– Specialized hardware and infrastructure components
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Introduction Introduction
• Organizations benefit from flexible and agile infrastructure architecture • Architecture is the philosophy (viewpoint) that underlies a system and
that require infrastructure to be: defines the purpose, intent, and structure of the system. Various kinds of
– Solid architecture can be defined, including
– Scalable – business architecture
– Modular – enterprise architecture
• Architecture is crucial to control the infrastructure when it is designed, in – data architecture
use, and when it is changed. – application architecture, and
• The market demands a degree of flexibility that can no longer be – infrastructure architecture.
supported by infrastructures that are inconsistent and hard to expand. We • Each of these disciplines has certain unique characteristics, but at their
need infrastructures that are constructed with standardized, modular most basic level, they all aim at mapping IT solutions to business value.
components. And to make infrastructures consistent and in line with Architecture is needed to control the infrastructure when it is designed, in
business needs, architecture is crucial. use, and when it is changed.

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The Definition of IT Infrastructure The Definition of IT Infrastructure

• In literature, many definitions of IT infrastructure are described 3. Infrastructure is the shared and reliable services that provide the
• Examples: foundation for the enterprise IT portfolio. The implementation of an
1. IT infrastructure consists of the equipment, systems, software, and architecture includes the processors, software, databases, electronic
services used in common across an organization, regardless of links, and datacenters as well as the standards that ensure the
mission/program/project. IT Infrastructure also serves as the components work together, the skills for managing the operation,
foundation upon which mission/program/project‐specific systems etc.
and capabilities are built
2. All of the hardware, software, networks, facilities, etc., that are
required to develop, test, deliver, monitor, control, or support IT
services. The term IT Infrastructure includes all of the Information IT infrastructure includes all the tools like computers, software,
Technology but not the associated people, processes and networks, and buildings needed to create, test, deliver, and
documentation manage IT services. It's everything related to technology, but
not the people, processes, or paperwork involved.

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 The Definition of IT Infrastructure The Definition of IT Infrastructure
• Based on these definitions the term infrastructure seems a bit vague. Let's • For most people, infrastructure is invisible and taken for granted.
try to lighten things up a bit. • When business processes are described by a business analyst, the
• The word infrastructure originates from the words infra (Latin for information used in the process is very important. How this information is
“beneath”) and structure. It encompasses all components that are managed using IT systems is “below the surface” for the business analyst.
“beneath the structure”, where the structure can be for instance a city, a They consider IT systems to be infrastructure.
house, or an information system. • For users of IT systems, applications are important, as they use them every
• In the physical world, the term infrastructure often refers to public day, but the way they are implemented or where they are physically
utilities, such as water pipes, electricity wires, gas pipes, sewage, and deployed is invisible (below the surface) to them and hence considered
telephone lines – components literally beneath a city's structure. infrastructure.
• For systems managers, the building in which their servers are hosted and
These are the things you don't usually see but are essential the utility company that delivers the required electricity are considered
for everything to work properly. infrastructure.

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The Definition of IT Infrastructure Next Lecture

• What infrastructure comprises dependents on: • In the next lecture(s) we will discuss more about IT Infrastructure and
– Who you ask different Terminologies and Building Blocks.
– What their point of view is

• For most people, infrastructure is invisible and taken for granted

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Questions?

Any questions?

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