Introduction
Infrastructure means the fundamental physical and organizational structures and facilities necessary for the functioning the program of building/organization
In the same way IT infrastructure means the Hardware and software components required to function the application reliable and efficiently to the end users without any problem.
IT infrastructure
IT infrastructure contains both hardware and software components.
Few of the Hardware components are:
1.Servers
2.Storage Devices
3.Routers
4.Load Balancers
5.Db server, etc.,
Few of the Software components are:
1.Operating System
2.Web Server
3.App Server
4.Database
5.Message broker
6.Docker etc.,
Types of Infrastructure
There are two types of IT infrastructure
1.Traditional infrastructure
Traditional infrastructure means here the company or the organization buys the systems, servers, electricity ,every component is been bought and the setup is made and controlled by them.
In IT industry earlier everyone were using this infrastructure to setup and there are still few companies and banks use this infrastructure
2.Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Infrastructure means the companies/organisations use the cloud services from the cloud providers like aws,azure and gcp to host their applications .Basically its like they rent the systems,servers and all other required components to host the application.They provide the feature of pay-as-you-go.
This was beneficial to the companies because they can invest more time on innovation of the product.
Conclusion
This was the basic understanding of infrastructure and the types of infrastructure
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