Laura Miller INSS300 Wb1 May 1, 2011

IT BASED SYSTEM ESSAY

The technology that I looked up was cloud network system which Amazon’s used for their network system. The network is one of the five that supports its huge EC2 network (elastic cloud computing service). The article from The Daily Mail(website is http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1379474/Web-chaos-Amazon-cloud- failure-crashes-major-websites-Playstation-Network-goes-AGAIN.html) explained the failure of the cloud network system because it was crashed which caused by hackers, the same issue that happened with the Playstation network. Thousands of businesses use its cloud to store their data.

The company stated that networking glitch which makes up its memory volumes immediately create back-ups of themselves which fill up the storage capacity that caused the crash. EC2 was supposed to cope with the huge traffic spikes which that

Amazon experience during the pre-Christmas rush back in December. Some people in the article believed that it is coming from hackers’ attack which caused this crash.

They probably filled up the memory that creates connectivity issue. It seemed that security is the problem for Amazon. They are still working on this issue and hope to resolve as soon as possible. It is terrible what happened with Playstation network which have 75 million users suffered the similar issue with the crash.

Web searched keyword is powerful because if people want to find information or a company, they will go to search engine website and put the keyword which will bring up the list that come up the keywords that were inputted by the users. The website www.kaushalam.com/seo-process.html explained how to set up a keyword so that users can find what they want. It is important to attract users to find you or what the topics that they want. That is why it is easy to find things that you want when you type any words which can bring you the result of the query. That is a neat thing with technology.

The IT-based innovation which was success in 2010 is IPAD. IPAD is a tablet device which allow users to touch the screen, it is a pc based touch screen led. It has a lot of feature and great for multimedia for people who want to watch movies, listen to music or many others. It is a great for using multitasking while handling all the multimedia. It gives the users the ability to set its own multimedia system whatever they want.

There are couple reasons why IPAD is successful in 2010. It is very new type of tablet which has many features. People love to have many different things in one product. Plus it has multimedia. People like the idea of going somewhere and watch movie and also do not need to carry a laptop anymore. Laptop can be pain in the neck.

Also there was a sticky point from the article that explained why people are stuck with it.

The article "Why people want less choice” from http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/nov2010/ca20101116_380066.htm pointed out one good point. Apple got people to signed five years commitment to use the IPAD and its service which was a sticky point. It is a profit driven by Apple to do this. But many other mobile communication device companies will do that and want people on the contract to subscribe to use their service.

Many times IT industries do make its mistakes, and they do improve from this situation. Sony and Amazon need to beef up their computer network security because if they do not, they will lose their customers and can lose their business. Computer security is important for many customers because Sony or Amazon stored the customers’ data which may have their information on credit card or many other. That is an issue with identify theft. They will need to do the right thing and be sure that their network systems are secured and watch out for the consumers.