Tag: COMPUTER NETWORKING

Week 14 – Review and Test 2

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In our final week of class for IST 423, we began with chapter 14 in an effort to finish learning all material that will be on the exam this Friday. On Wednesday we had a review where Dr.Fusco essential just clicked through the review powerpoint and asked everyone if they had any questions. I did not find this to be a review, moreover it seemed an exclamation by professor to spite the few students who had not attended class for the majority of the semester. Friday is the exam and I am confident I will earn a score that will allow me to start my career next month on time. Thank you for giving this class your best effort this semester Dr. Fusco, there was many real-world examples that I appreciated.

https://www.konstantinfo.com/blog/why-multi-tenancy-application-architecture-matters/

Week 13 – Presentations

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This week, we had presented our Amazon Web Service case studies to professor Fusco and the class. The groups were broken down by twos on all three class days this week, with my group, Team 1, going on Friday.  My group selected the Benchling company’s case study because it sounded the most interesting. Benchling is a life sciences company that runs a database on their platform that is accessible by scientists across the globe in order to further their research. The powerpoints were around 10 to 20 minutes each and were all extremely interesting and helped broaden my knowledge of real world applications.

Here is an article I found that helped me understand Benchlings purpose when I was doing my research –

Benchling raises $14.5M to help streamline collaboration among scientists

Week 11 – Backup and Archive

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The world is a volatile and dangerous place so in this week of class we learned about backup and archive. The lecture consisted of learning of numerous backup techniques, the reasoning behind backup and other backup topics such as: Disaster recovery, operational recovery, and archive. We also learned that unfortunately technology is not perfect and with certain hardware, crashes can be common.

https://www.bullguard.com/bullguard-security-center/pc-security/computer-threats/backup-of-data-files-why-it-is-important.aspx

This article from bullguard goes over some of the most common problems facing the protection and safety of your data and applies our learning from class.

Week 6 – Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks

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Week 6 in IST 423 had a very broad range of topics from an intro to drivers for IP SAN and began learning Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks and related concepts of this module like block-level storage virtualization and EMC Connectrix. We Then went over topics such as iSCSI and gateways. At an internship of mine two summers ago I helped some of the IT officers with data duplication and a modern data infrastructure so this lecture was one that really clicked for me.

Some additional reading I did on Fiber Channel SAN –

https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/tip/The-anatomy-of-a-SAN-Fibre-Channel-SAN-explained

While doing my reading and skimming I also found this recent article –

https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-centers/sinking-fibre-channel-san

 

Week 1- Reviewing The OSI Model

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In our first week of class in IST 423, we got an introduction to our professor, Professor Fusco. Professor Fusco then gave us a very high level overview of what we can expect to learn in this class and what the course will be like throughout the semester. After our introduction, we began with class materials by having a quick, in class review of the OSI model. We reviewed this model because the materials for the rest of the class will be based on the OSI model’s concepts, the professor mentioned that if we do not remember anything about this model from IST 210 or 220, that we should do our best to review it. I think taking this class will provide a more technical insight into the concepts that I have learned in other IST classes, which is something I am excited about. Cannot wait to see what else this class has in store!

Below is a website I used to help my review of the OSI model-

https://codeburst.io/learning-the-osi-model-32b48cc55bdd