For the last three decades, one trend in computing has been loud and clear: big, centralized, mainframe systems have been "out"; personalized, power-to-the-people, do-it-yourself PCs have been "in." Before personal computers took off in the early 1980s, if your company needed sales or...
Another mechanism-context-outcome combination existed for replacement in which business-IT trust was present. A case example was anIT management databasein an IT service management firm (S5). The system, programmed by a hands-on IT person, helped to automate IT portfolio planning using a self-...
Compare and contrast the properties of a centralized and a distributed routing algorithm. Give an example of a routing protocol that takes a centralized and a decentralized approach. Provide a brief comparison of VPN protocols, outlining the adv...