Day 2: IT market, players and solutions and SMAC

Question 1

market segmentation and trends (2)

Answer 1

• production solution/stand-alone vertical solution by process
• outsourcing of non-strategic processes

Question 2

vertical solution

Answer 2

• focuses on delivering industry-specific application hosting services to customers in a specific vertical market such as manufacturing, health care, retailing or financial service

Question 3

outsourcing (3)

Answer 3

• business process outsourcing
• application outsourcing
• infrastructure outsourcing

Question 4

SMAC

Answer 4

social, mobile, analytics, and cloud

Question 5

Cloud (3)

Answer 5

• SaaS: Software as a Service
• IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service
• PasS: Platform as a Service

Question 6

SaaS

Answer 6

is a software distribution model in which applications are hosted by a vendor or service provider and made available to customers over a network, typically the Internet

Question 7

ASP

Answer 7

• third-party entity that manages and distributes software-based services and solutions
• a way from companies to outsource some or almost all aspects of their information technology needs

Question 8

IaaS

Answer 8

• software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted

Question 9

PaaS

Answer 9

provides a platform allowing customer to develop, run and manage web applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app

Question 10

deployment models (3)

Answer 10

1. public cloud
2. private cloud
3. hybrid cloud

Question 11

open source

Answer 11

• source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design

Question 12

FOSS

Answer 12

• free and open source software

- free refers to the freedom to copy and re-use the software