Essays on Unix

Google chose to design Android to compete with Apple phones. Android is software that other smartphone manufacturers use for system operation. Almost every smartphone manufacturer uses Google Android to power its operating system. These users are the core strengths of Google to compete with Apple phones . Google implemented the defensive strategy and introduced pixel phones as a first attempt to challenge Apple’s iPhone. Before Google came up with the Android software, Samsung was taking the lead in the development Android software. The act of Google coming with Android and smartphones also challenged other phone manufacturers that were considered ...

An operating system forms the core of a computer in that it coordinates the processes of the computer, its memory, and all of the computer’s hardware and software. It likewise permits the user to connect with the computer even without prior knowledge of how to interpret the language of the computer. A computer without an operating system is non-functional. In most cases, there are some diverse computer programs functioning simultaneously, and they all must access the memory, storage, and the central processing unit (CPU) of the computer. The operating system harmonizes all the programs to make sure every ...

Abstract

Organizations select operating systems for use in their workstations and servers depending on their preference. In my organization, the preferred operating system is Linux. However, vendors to supply the system and associated support have not been determined. As such, the paper aims at considering different factors of the individual vendors such as reliability, performance, availability of training, and availability of support. Moreover, aspects such as pricing and suitability in different work environments will be considered since each organization is expected to have its advantages and disadvantages. Extensive research from the literature will be conducted to ensure that a clear ...

<< Name>> <<School>> <<Date>> Situational Analysis: AT&T is a Fortune 500 company with 2015 revenues of $146.8 Billion (ATT, 2017). From a historical point of view it has origins in 1876 with the invention of the telephone by Alexander G. Bell. It is the world’s largest communications organization. Vision: AT&T’s vision statement is to enable every customer to “get content on any device, any way they want it” (Bajarin, 2016). Mission: AT&T’s mission statement relates to the way the company uses its technology to connect people – “to connect ...

Microsoft Windows are one of the most used operating systems in the whole world. It is estimated that 80% of the computers in the world are run using Windows mainly because the GUI is very user-friendly and relatively easy to use. The software that runs using Windows is very easy to find, and the use of graphical user interface to manage files in the system is one of its core functions. The file management system is an administrator located in the operating system and is responsible for creating illusions on the existence folders in the memory of a computer. ...

Analysis

A monopoly is when a single business or other organization has complete command and control over a market. It does not mean that they are the only competitor in play. However, it does mean that the single organization in question is not in any way threatened or competed with given the conditions of the market in question. Generally, monopolies are illegal. This is due to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act that was passed in 1890. That law can be used as a means to break up companies that are seen as monopolies. Precisely this was done with Standard Oil Company ...

The 21st century is worthily pronounced the era of technologies that keep on reshaping our reality and changing our lives every day. Such terms as disruptive and emergent technologies are widely known nowadays. And even though they are often wrongly equaled, both terms illustrate different qualities of the technologies and denote the different objects. This essay therefore aims to define and analyze both notions, providing the reasons and ways of their distinction. In order to draw the distinction line between the two notions, they foremost need to be defined. Thereby, according to Business Dictionary definition, disruptive technologies are “new ...

Price and Place/Distribution for AT & T

Distribution Strategies AT&T would primarily utilize the “zero-level channel” which is also called a direct marketing channel consists of a manufacturer selling directly to the final customers. AT&T retail stores are the only beneficiaries of the product who can offer U-verse internet service and homes services. The measure is cost effective, enabling AT&T to successfully reach our Bottom Line. Also, customers will benefit from the level of distribution to ensure the highest quality of products while eliminating the middle man. The products will directly be delivered to the AT&T retail stores to offer the bundles a reasonable price of $ ...

Business

Industry: NAICS code is 517911- Telecommunications Resellers Market: NASDAQ Symbol: AT&T Inc. Revenue: $40.9 billion Profile of the firm AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides mobile services, landline services, television services, as well as high-speed internet connection. It operates both in the United States and on an international platform. Most specifically, AT&T offers products primarily to the United States, Mexico, and other Latin American countries. According to Reuters (2017), AT&T offers services to businesses, the government, wholesalers, and individual consumers. Between the wireless voice and data provision, which is the most popular service at AT&T, the company offers ...

Answer 1) AT&T is the largest telecommunications company in the United States, which also has a broadband business unit as well as satellite TV brands. Time Warner on the other hand, positions itself as a content company which also has some of the country’s largest entertainment channels as well as a Television and Film Studio. A merger between both is going to benefit AT&T greatly because the unique content generated by Time Warner will now be broadcasted using the expensive wireless and satellite capabilities of AT&T (Selyukh 1). Answer 2) the business rationale for this merger is that ...

I. Introduction A corporation is a common type of business organization in which its owners have the ability to use it as a separate, and distinct legal entity. One of the primary differences between a corporation and other types of business organizations, such as a sole proprietorship or general partnership, is that a duly formed corporation is, legally a person. Moreover, under the law, a corporation is a legal person who the owners, in essence, can control and direct to carry out a range of activities. To be sure, corporations are deemed to have a personality or personhood, including ...

Part 1

There is limited use of the root or super user account in Linux because the user of the account has administrator privileges. This account is cautiously guarded because the user can make unrestricted changes to the system. The user can also make changes anywhere in the system which could result in adverse implications. The Windows operating system has a built-in administrator account and an administrator user account making the account less cautiously guarded compared to the root account in Linux. The two accounts in Windows have equal privileges. However, the user of the administrator account can make system-wide changes ...

A merger is the unification of companies. Usually, there are five types of mergers: product extension mergers, conglomerate merger, market extension merger, horizontal merger, and vertical merger. Each type serves a unique economic function for the businesses involved. Acquisitions occur when a company takes over another firm (Galpin, & Herndon, 2014). The difference between the two strategies is that a merger is meant to combine the interests of the business entities involved thereby creating a firm that is much stronger. In mergers, the two combining companies usually get a new name. The merging companies are mostly the same size. On ...

Analysis of Strategic Options and Recommended Action

This report will analyze the strategic positioning of Comcast Corporation, an American based multinational company that offers television, cable TV and Internet services to its consumers, and come up with the best way of making the company as competitive and productive as possible. This paper will focus on the company’s internet service provision branch and analyze how well the company can do in the US market as well as on the global scale when compared to its rivals. The macroeconomic and microeconomic aspects of the company’s operation will be taken into consideration during this process of analysis.

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Abstract

Most organizations and businesses have reported a loss of billions of money while others have become bankrupt leading to closure. Security breaches have propagated most of these events due to the kind of technology implemented. Mobile devices and Internet connections have been on top of the list. As technology keeps on evolving, different convenient methods of communication and accessing information keeps on improving. This evolution leads to new cybercrime activities which have posed to be a significant threat to financial growth in different economic sectors. However, there have been the implementation of new methods to curb the security breaches ...

Capstone Project of a Community Surveillance System in Kentucky: Evaluation of the Community Surveillance System and the HealthSIS system (Emergint technology Inc.) used in the Northern Kentucky Health Department and St. Elizabeth Hospital

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Surveillance Systems Overview 5 Disease Surveillance: Responsibilities and Procedures . 6 Project Goals .. 8 Emergint, Inc. (HealthSIS) .. 9 Monthly Log .. 11 Emergent: Health Department and St. Elizabeth Interface .. 12

Performance Issues at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital 13

Questions Regarding Performance Issues at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital . 14

Performance Issues at the Kentucky Department of Health 15

Possible Solutions for Performance Issues .. 16

Using DCTS Computer Software 18

Conclusion and Recommendations .. 19

Works Cited 21

Appendix A .. 22 Abstract The surveillance systems for hospitals are crucial ...

INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING

Abstract The computing is the study of the fundamentals of the data and information that is processed by computers. The input and output of the computing are the information, necessary for businesses to operate and grow. The business data is a concept used in the marketing world to refer to solutions for businesses to use the data in a successful way to improve their business . The most important business data applications are Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Resource Management (CRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM). One of the most important relations in the computing discipline is between hardware and ...

Part 1

Information gathering is a significant part of the hacking process given that it presents the hacker with the crucial information and knowledge about the target organization. Foot printing and port scanning are some of the initial stages and processes of hacking. Foot printing entails all the processes of information gathering about the target organization (Lyon, 2009). Hackers use different methods and source of information to collect crucial information about the target organization. Some of the sources of information include; the target organization’s website, company directories, Google hacking, alternative websites, social engineering and USENETS. The information gathered through foot ...

Verizon Communications Inc. Financial Statement Analysis

Verizon Communications Inc. Financial Statement Analysis

This financial statement analysis project focuses on Verizon Communications Inc. Verizon Communications Inc. is a publicly traded American broadband telecommunications company with operations in about 150 countries globally and in about 2,700 cities. At the time of presenting this financial statement analysis document, Verizon Communications Inc. traded at a market price per share of $56.50 with a market capitalization of $229.21 billion (Yahoo Finance, 2016). The company’s main competitor has been AT&T. It operates in the telecommunications industry and has it main products including the telephony services, data services, and television ...

Introduction

Windows operating systems provide certain advantages over other operating systems in specific environments. However, for certain operations such as those required by Linx LLC new research and development group, a new version of Linux operating system triumphs Windows operating system. It is imperative to point out that Microsoft no longer offers support for Windows XP operating systems. Also, it is worth noting that the new research and development group for Linx LLC has several computers and systems running and operating on Windows XP. Given the lack of support by Microsoft in addition to other factors such as security issues ...

MGMT 581

Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainability Executive summary: This paper is a descriptive analysis of Corporate social responsibility which has long been a significant part of organizational activities at Oracle. Over a span of time, company has achieved great heights owing to its internal ethical standards such as compliance, teamwork, integrity and corporate governance that have contributed greatly towards establishing a good relationship with primary stakeholders and third party clients. The paper also represents a comprehensive report on how the management at Oracle has taken every step towards maintaining quality by regular training and education. Apart from this, the paper also ...

(Q1.) Over the years, Oracle has continued to demonstrate high levels of ethical standards in dealing with its employees, partners, creditors, suppliers, and other pertinent stakeholders. As such, this is one of the factors that have steered the company to the heights of the Fortune 500 (in 2014, the company was ranked 82). Over the years, the company’s board of directors has continued to develop corporate governance, ethical standards that have made the firm responsible to its primary stakeholders. Since the company operates globally, its executive managers in conjunction with the branch managers have developed laws and ethical ...

AT & T

Product and Services Offering AT&T is a telecommunication company that provides high grade products and services to its clientele. Services and products include wireless communication, internet services, telecom equipment, and local services in exchanges (AT&T Annual Report, 2014). The business has been an industry leader for some time having the ability to control a sizeable market share that assists the organization in accomplishing effectiveness within the market along with higher bargaining power. The company’s mission is to allow people to have the ability to connect with others using the most up to date specialized and high tech inventions ...

Introduction

The 21st century has seen tremendous improvements in technology, making it the current leveraging factor in the completion age. Since websites provide a way through which most businesses sell their brands it is only prudent that they embrace internal hosting as it enables direct oversight as well as control while guaranteeing maximum reliability especially when everything is properly set up and maintained. In this paper, I aim to address the dynamics that is associated with website migration mainly using the SDLC in the implementation of the project.

Building the Web Architecture

Since the company already has a running website, then the first thing ...

Abstract

A Cybercrime is a crime performed through the use of or against digital technologies . The crimes are perpetrated using a computer, computer networks or other information communication technology. The target or victim of the crime is computers or network services. The victim may be random or specifically targets. Typically, the criminal is seeking to gain personal profit or financial gain, but may also be seeking to cause physical damage or make a statement as a form of protest. Cybercrimes began to arise with the introduction of computer systems and have grown and advanced with technology. The investigation of cybercrimes ...

Comparison of Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux has always been very important for the users.

Windows is one of the most popular operating system developed by Microsoft. Windows OS was originally based on MS-DOS. These series of Windows known as the 9+ series. All of the following Windows operating systems are based on Windows NT. Mac OS X is an operating system developed by Apple and is now the second most frequently used after the Windows OS. OS X, unlike Windows, is based on UNIX. Thus, OS X is considered part of the family of UNIX operating systems like Linux. Linux is not really a single OS, but rather several distributions based on the ...

Management Information Systems

Linux is an open source software that can be downloaded free from the internet and used by the end users. Though the original creator of the software gave it freely, some firms have redesigned the operating system and sold it for profit. Other software firms have used it to create their commercial applications such as Oracle. The free availability of Linux has led to its wide use in mobile phones, enterprise software and consumer electronics. Despite its wide use for other purposes, only a small fraction has been used in desktop computers. There are various reasons why this occurs ( ...

Abstract

The privacy and confidentiality of information is a crucial factor for any organization dealing with large volumes of information. On the other hand, the development in technology, increase in the cases of cybercrimes, and the web-security issues that are common in almost every online platform, makes the need for database security concern for organizations that handle date. Currently, DBMS is one of the best tools for ensuring the safety of data, and this paper will review its use in database security. It will give a cognitive outline of how a company can use it, with the sole focus on ...

First Response

The NFS offers the Linux and UNIX users the ability to share and even transfer information and data from a single PC to another. The NFS system is highly available in the Windows operating system, more than it is in the UNIX system. The NFS, however, can be loaded by the use of the Server Message Block (SMB), which make up the CIFS. The NFS processor makes information readily available. The operation of the NFS system depends on the relationship between the UNIX and the Linux operating systems. For the information to be transmitted from one place to another, ...

The Financial Accounting and Standard Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) apply to the AT&T Mobility because both are proposing changes in global accounting. Moreover, their rule provides more incentives for companies particularly in changing the terms of the contract in corporations to speed up revenues to achieve quarterly targets. Additionally, the treatment of revenues in AT&T Mobility, the proposal for the changes, may drive the inconsistent allocation of income in particular between its products and payable resources as well as the separation of hosting arrangements. Consequently, AT&T have changed its GAAP accounting to redefine the ...

Introduction

Preliminary strategic audit refers to assess the current performance of the operations of the business. It examines that if the functions of organization are moving in the designed direction that is set to achieve specific goal or objectives. AT&T is a multinational company that provides effective communication products and services to its global customers. Its product includes smartphones, tablets, and broadband services that are widely used by the customers all over the world. The mission and vision of the company is to provide technological and innovative products to its valuable customers and ensures high satisfaction in the world market. ...

Network Security.

Network security is primarily the protection of data, files, and directories in a computer from unauthorized access. As a corporate network administrator, it is paramount to secure such records and foster client confidentiality. Any security breach/ attack affects the confidentiality and the integrity of the system. There are various types of network attacks which affect different organizations. A close-in attack is one of the most common types of attack. It is whereby a person tries to get a close physical contact with the network and is, therefore, able to access such data with an aim of modifying, gathering or ...

1-2 Paragraph Response

Question- "Optimizing Performance"   In order to ensure the fault tolerant network design with no point of failure, administrators can use different approaches. One of them is redundancy. A network without a single point of failure should consist of redundant network-infrastructure components like routers and switches. Moreover, these devices should be interconnected with redundant links. Redundant components, paths and services can also be included in the network topology to ensure its high availability. Another approach is replication. It is a way of providing a couple of identical instances of the one system or one subsystem, directing tasks or requests to ...

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9.0 Strategy specification Distracted driving, including driving while using the cell phone is an area of major concern. Estimates demonstrate that over 3,000 were killed, and nearly half a million injured as the direct result of driving while distracted (Distraction.gov, 2015). More specifically, an estimated 10% of drivers under the age of 20 who were killed while driving were texting when the accident occurred (Distraction.gov, 2015). In this case, the product, as it relates to driving distracted, including making calls or texting while driving, is the intention to use the while operating a motor vehicle. This intention is ...

Athlone Store – Android Application Linked with Server

Introduction Athlone Store is an Android based application that is linked with a Server. The App is based on a Client-Server architecture where the client caters to end users or buyers and the server is the admin part for managing the application data and relevant details. The client in this architecture is the Android App that is accessed by users or the buyers of various product offerings on the App. The buyers accessing the Android App can perform various activities on the Android App client that includes checking product categories, searching products by name, browsing through the product catalog, ...

Introduction

Technology advance and innovation paved way for the introduction of the Apple’s iPhone. However, Steve Jobs had the view that targeting only 1 percent share of the market, they could sell over ten million phones. That was considering that the brand was going into a highly competitive market with more players and the view that the product was the best in the world. However, the iPhone was subject to various market forces that determined its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats as well as the strategies that Apple could apply. In that respect, this analysis presents a summary of ...

Part one

Personal computers have now become not just used for computation but also, a source of entertainment inform of PC games. The personal computing industry is now in growing at unprecedented levels regarding the hardware and software components. Hardware and software sales are up, and the challenge that computer consumers face now is identifying the computer model they need that will fit their requirements. Especially for the hardware components, the users will need to consider their hardware choice combination than include, graphics card, processors, storage, memory and power consumption. To do this, computer users will require determining whether the product ...

Virtualization

Introduction This report aims at exploring the differences between hypervisor based and container-based virtualization technologies. In the report, the differences to be explored will touch on the implementations, the applications, the advantages and disadvantages of either technology. The report will also look at the different applications that are using the technologies.

Virtualizations: Virtualization is the practice of creation virtual resource, i.e., servers, storage devices, networks or even operating system to enable execution of applications that require a different execution environment. Virtualization is meant to increase IT agility, scalability and flexibility through faster deployment, increased performance and greater availability leading ...

Internship Opportunities for a Software Developer

Introduction There has never been a time when the job market has been as competitive as the present time and age. The job market is saturated with a highly educated job seekers competing for the same employment opportunities as everyone. Consequently, it takes more than just a diploma certificates to secure a good job and curve out a professional niche. Employers in the present job market are looking for that one extra milestone that sets a potential employee apart from the rest of the crowd. Therefore, it is important that job seekers should ensure that have a unique selling ...

Company 1: AT&T, Inc.

Brief History: AT&T, Inc. is one of the leading telecommunications and broadband companies in the USA. It is the largest provider of fixed phone lines and the second largest mobile phone provider in the U.S. AT&T also offers broadband subscription TV, Internet, sells handsets, computers, and provides other similar services and products. The company has a long history dating back to the foundation of the Bell Telephone Company by Alexander Bell in 1877. In 1885, it established a subsidiary American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), which acquired the Bell Telephone Company and became a parent in 1899. The influence ...

Company and situation

According to Biegelman and Bartow (2012), WorldCom Group began in 1983 following the breakup of AT&T. It began as Long Distance Discount Services (LDDS) offering telecommunication services to local retail and commercial customers in the Southern States where the two major telecommunication companies – Sprint and MCI had little presence. The company grew by acquiring other companies and in 1993 it was declared the fourth largest long distance carrier in the US (Biegelman & Bartow, 2012). It was officially renamed WorldCom in 1995 and continued a period of great acquisitions of more than 60 companies. However, between 1999 and 2002, the ...

The case of the murder of Hae Min Lee has seen a resurgence of interest summoned by the addictive podcast Serial. The facts and evidence in this case have been combed through extensively since. Despite the obvious instability surrounding star witness Jay Wilds’ malleable testimony, Adnan Syed was convicted of first-degree murder and given a life sentence. The evaluation of this evidence shows that Adnan Syed did not murder Hae Min Lee, and should have never been convicted. Syed’s innocence has manifested itself in several ways, specifically with the theory of reinforcement and memory binding through emotional arousal, ...

[The Course]

An operating system is a kind of software, which deals with computer’s hardware and software resources management as well providing computer programs with low-level services, which are essential to ensure their proper functionality. This means that operating system plays a role of mediator between programs installed on the computer and the computer hardware (Dohtre 1). Operating systems can be installed on a wide range of devices containing computer functions such as desktop computers, laptops, smartphones, tablets, different types of servers etc. At the present moment the most popular desktop operating systems are Windows,OS X and ...

Cloud data center

The literature review, in this case, focuses on the cloud computing data center, and it does address energy as well as trade-off performance. The server within cloud data center is virtualized in the cloud environment hence the instances of virtualization must be handled with a lot of care to improve machines as well as the host efficiency. Cloud computing is a technology which has the capability to achieve massive data storage, efficient communication process, performance at a higher rate, hosting as well as services on demand to all the cloud consumers. The rate at which social application, as well ...

Introduction

Culture can be defined as a progressing set of collective values, beliefs, and attitudes. It means what governs human behavior. Therefore, Organization Culture is a system of mutually shared assumptions, ethics, beliefs, norms, and values that govern the behavior of people within the organization. Usually, the culture in every organization such as church, club, business, and companies determines how the members act, perform, and dress in their duties. Organization culture of any business or company constitutes of attitudes, values that dictate the way stakeholders and workers contribute and act for the firm. The culture plays a role in business ...

Answer 1: Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is not a very robust and secure protocol. There are many free tools available which even naïve hackers can use to crack the security where WEP is used. Thus, with very simple programs and tools WEP keys can be cracked. Once done, the hackers can connect to the Wi-Fi network and even decode the traffic on this network (Stobing, 2014). Answer 2: Instead of WEP, we should use Wi-Fi protected access (WPA) or Wi-Fi protected access 2 (WPA2). The encryption which this protocol uses is AES/ CCMP which is very robust and ...

Introduction

Mining activities can pose serious environmental and health implications. Although, these environmental and health hazards can be mitigated and effectively managed through sound engineering and environmental practices, these environmental and health issues associated with mining operations could not be totally eradicated. In general, there are three major players in the mining industry: the company, which include the employees and the stockholders; the regulatory bodies, which include the government and other national and international environmental organizations; and the community, which are not directly related to the mining industry, but is impacted by its operations. Each one of these stakeholders has ...

Klein, D. V. (1990). Foiling the cracker: A survey of, and improvements to, password security. In Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Security Workshop (pp. 5-14).

The article ‘‘Foiling the Cracker’’: A Survey of, and Improvements to, Password

Security by Daniel V. Klein was published in 1990. Klein looks into system security and discusses how people can hack passwords. He claims that the issue of security has always been a challenge to most individual accounts as there are people who know how to manipulate such accounts such that they hack them and get vital information about another party. He discusses the various ways in which technology has motivated the interference of system ...

America is the hub of entertainment in all genres and has been providing entertainment solutions to a global audience from ages. With the advent of technology the mode to showcase kept changing and the game changer was the launch of the TV. To be able to provide quality entertainment was the key mantra and transfixed the American society and with the advances made in digital technology, the initiation was the launch of companies providing digital television entertainment services. Direct TV was launched in 1994 with the focus on satisfying the demands of the consumers based in USA and Latin ...

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Essay

INTRODUCTION Toxic waste can be defined as ‘the byproducts of the industrial process”. As each industry produces some type of by product and some are toxic or poisonous to living things and the environment. The range in the hazardous conditions that they create can be measured as a range with some being very hazardous while others produce a smell or a nuisance. The hazardous wastes are of the most concern and many groups and organizations are watching and enforcing strict codes of conduct for punishment of companies that violate the laws. The Abidjan disaster is an example of the ...

According to Schoenfield, Stewart & Ransome (2015), information system threats are a major problem facing IT systems globally because of the growth in the use and development of computer networks aimed towards supporting information systems. Information systems are finding use in industries that require to keep their data confidential and away from unauthorized access such as banks, production companies, manufacturers, databases with private information, hospitals, government systems just to mention a few. It is therefore critical to identify threats that may face a system and adopt mitigation strategies aimed towards reducing the impact of such threats when they occur or ...

Project Background and Introduction

The document intends to provide brief description of a system development lifecycle of a project titled “Website Migration”. As per the given scenario, Tony’s Chips owns a website and has recently been bought by a new independent company. The higher management of the new company wishes to migrate the website hosted externally to their own internal hosting solution. The higher management of the new independent company is concerned that the website migration process should be done with minimal downtime, redundancy for their website and proper backup of the website. In this way, the company wishes to provide their ...

One of the biggest wishes that one has in this world is to be successful. Success can be a good or bad outcome of an undertaking, or either it can be an accomplishment of a purpose. The biggest question arises when many people wish to be successful but don’t know the ingredients needed to achieve success in their livelihoods. It is like a puzzle that one has to play around with the daily routines to achieve that one goal. This great desire for success is what keeps us moving and running, working tirelessly and studying so hard and ...

Company Analysis: Verizon Communications

About the paper The paper is commissioned to perform financial analysis and equity valuation of Verizon Communications, and issue a final recommendation on the company’s performance. As part of this analysis, we will be using the raw financial figures of 2014 and 2015 and will then run them through the microscope of financial ratios. On the other hand, the equity valuation will be performed using the comparable approach as part of which we will calculate the intrinsic value of the company’s stock using industry PE ratio. However, before initiating with the financial calculations, we will introduce a ...

Executive Summary

Mission Statement Situation Analysis General Electric (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate corporation founded by Thomas A. Edison in 1878 and is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. It serves diverse industries such as aviation, consumer electronics, electrical distribution, energy, finance, and healthcare, among others. The company has operations in major markets in more than 100 countries across the world (www.ge.com). In 2015, GE ranked among the Fortune 500 as the 8th-largest firm in the U.S. by gross revenue, and the 21st most profitable company (www.fortune.com & forbes.com, 2015). As of 2016 the company was listed the ninth-largest in the world among ...

Linux is an open-source desktop and server operating system that is collaboratively developed (Fox, 2014). Linux is free; free of charge and free of patent restrictions. The operating system is secure, stable, highly configurable, and has regular updates. Additionally, it runs on x86 32bit and 64-bit CPUs and supports even ‘out-of-date’ hardware. Linux users enjoy support from the worldwide Linux community through various community sites and forums. Major Linux distributions include Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOs, OpenSUSE, Debian and Linux Mint.

Hardware

HACKD, LLC’s new research and development group LSDG has 500 computers that run Windows 7 and Windows XP Operating ...

Physical Network Design

Physical network design Network topology Business needs Assessing the school’s needs and building layout, it evident that two hundred and twelve computers are to be installed in the school’s network. The network will serve six computer labs, administration offices and two server rooms. On the network needed by the school, some of the computers will be servers and some will be clients used by students as well as guests. Based on the specifications provided, the school’s staff will have their own network, students will have their own network, and members of the public will have their ...

Introduction

Corporate Network Security is essential as it prevents hacker or intruder from gaining unauthorized access to the company's infrastructure for the purpose of stealing sensitive information. Penetration testing is done to achieve network security. The purpose of the software testing is to find out weaknesses in the security setting of the network system before any person with bad intentions exploit them. Advanced Research Corporation should also do penetration testing to ensure network security and to find out various weaknesses that are present in the system software and hardware. Thus, it would be easier to identify the vulnerability of the ...

Question1.

A Linux distribution for a long time has proven to be best among many when it comes to issues security. The ability mainly due to the different built-in features of safety provided. Secure socket shell communication is one of the many security features provided in Linux. SSH is a UNIX-based command driven interface protocol that is used to get access to remote computers. Access to the secure socket shell is controlled through the use of digital signatures and password. Both on the client side and server side encryption of the data being transmitted ensure secure communication (Satoh, Nakamura & Ikenaga, ...