Basic Elements of IT

Infrastructure
 1. Data Center

• Physical space where servers

and network devices are
located
• Requires access control,
cooling, redundant power
supplies, etc.
• Usually organized in racks or
vertical cabinets
• Vary significant in size
System Administrator

• Master of Data
Center
• A person who
knows the whole
operation and
where the cables
are connected
inside the data
center
2. Server

• Is a computer program that provides

services to other computer and their users
• Fulfill request form clients which may be
running on other computers
 Category of server

• File Server – functions to share files to with potential users. This was replaced
by google drive, etc.
• Print Server – manages printing requests of all users. You can print through
server.
• Web Server - stores and delivers the content for a website – such as text,
images, video, and application data – to clients that request it.
• Application Server - is a server specifically designed to run applications.
• Mail Server – an application used to handle all of the mails of the users in a
company
• Media Server – server that is used for video streaming, share photographs.
 Computer

• is a programmable machine
that is both electronic and
digital. The actual
machinery is hardware; the
instructions and data is
software.
 Types of Computer

1. Supercomputer – are the

largest, fastest, most
powerful and most expensive
computers made. It has a
very high efficiency in storing
capacity. Supercomputer can
solve very complex problems
in Nano second. Use to
forecast weather.
 2. Mainframe Computer

• Is a high performance computer.

• More than 100 users can operate
mainframes computer at a time.
• mainframes (colloquially referred
to as "big iron") are computers used
primarily by large organizations for
critical applications; bulk data
processing, such as census, industry
and consumer statistics, enterprise
resource planning; and transaction
processing.
 3. Mini Computer

• Midrange computers
• Smaller and less
powerful than
supercomputers and
mainframe computers.
• It is usually used for
scientific research,
business transaction
processes.
 Personal Computer

• a small computer that contains

a microprocessor as its central
processor.
• Desktop
• Laptop
• Tablets
• Smartphones
 Hubs, Switches and Routers

• Hubs are “dumb” devices that pass on

anything received on one connection to
all other connections. 
• Switches are semi-intelligent devices
that learn which devices are on which
connection. 
• Routers are essentially small
computers that perform a variety of
intelligent tasks.