Impact of Hardware, Software and Communications Technologies on Businesses
New developments and Impact on businesses
This task is focused around talking about the new developments in technology, what they are, how they have impacted businesses and where they could lead.
I have broken the technologies into three different sub-categories:
• Hardware
• Software
• Communications
Hardware
Solid State Drives
Solid state drives are a bit of an oddity in modern technology. They have existed for several years in their current form (Early 1970’s), yet have only within the past 5 years risen up as an alternative to traditional hard drives.
They are called SSDs because of their use of semiconductors (similar to transistor radios), this is different to conventional technology in the same field which mainly utilise a mix of semiconductors and chips.
To a degree this technology already exists in modern computing on a wide scale, flash memory drives (USB mainly) use similar non-volatile memory chips; these retain information without any form of power. There are a couple of distinct differences, mainly the capacity of the drives and the intended placement. SSD’s are designed to operate within the system as opposed to externally.
How does this differentiate from traditional hard drives?
Traditional hard drives utilise magnetic plates which are span by motors, they need a large amount of space, emit a lot of heat and drive heads are known to be very fragile.
SSD’s offer advantages or improves upon the technology in nearly every way. As I have said before they have not need for motors so there is significantly lower power consumption. Because all memory is handled by flash memory chips it also means that the data is accessed faster and generally with fewer faults. Simpler tech means less to go wrong.
This faster, cheaper and more efficient method of storing data has led to the development of Hybrid Data Drives, these are a combination of HDD and SSD. Essentially the main bulk is made up of the HDD but a certain amount is dedicated
This task is focused around talking about the new developments in technology, what they are, how they have impacted businesses and where they could lead.
I have broken the technologies into three different sub-categories:
• Hardware
• Software
• Communications
Hardware
Solid State Drives
Solid state drives are a bit of an oddity in modern technology. They have existed for several years in their current form (Early 1970’s), yet have only within the past 5 years risen up as an alternative to traditional hard drives.
They are called SSDs because of their use of semiconductors (similar to transistor radios), this is different to conventional technology in the same field which mainly utilise a mix of semiconductors and chips.
To a degree this technology already exists in modern computing on a wide scale, flash memory drives (USB mainly) use similar non-volatile memory chips; these retain information without any form of power. There are a couple of distinct differences, mainly the capacity of the drives and the intended placement. SSD’s are designed to operate within the system as opposed to externally.
How does this differentiate from traditional hard drives?
Traditional hard drives utilise magnetic plates which are span by motors, they need a large amount of space, emit a lot of heat and drive heads are known to be very fragile.
SSD’s offer advantages or improves upon the technology in nearly every way. As I have said before they have not need for motors so there is significantly lower power consumption. Because all memory is handled by flash memory chips it also means that the data is accessed faster and generally with fewer faults. Simpler tech means less to go wrong.
This faster, cheaper and more efficient method of storing data has led to the development of Hybrid Data Drives, these are a combination of HDD and SSD. Essentially the main bulk is made up of the HDD but a certain amount is dedicated