Nijaz Bajgoric

this paper draws on Uses and Gratification theory and aims to explore the role and impact of different types of social media use at the workplace on employee innovative behavior...

This chapter provides important empirical evidence to support the role of individual knowledge management processes and separate innovation types within firms. Specifically...

Continuous improvements in digitized practices have created opportunities for businesses to develop more streamlined processes. This not only leads to higher success in...

The chapter presents conceptual aspects of “always-on” information systems as well as the main attributes and implementation drivers. In addition, HP's HP-UX server operating...

The IS availability is an essential requirement that business presents to its IT departments. Ibrahimovic (2016) concluded that, with a very low investment in “monitoring of the...

In order to stay competitive, modern businesses need to adopt an enterprise information system or an integrated IT platform that operates on an “always-on” basis in order to...

In today's e-business, system downtime is an unacceptable option since each hour, even minute, of downtime may generate negative financial effects. In many IT-dependent...

The first chapter aims at defining a “big picture” of contemporary business and business computing. Business pressures and business risks are explored in order to identify the...

After introducing some basic facts on how today’s businesses are faced with several types of business risks, the second chapter tends to explain one of the major problems that a...

The previous chapter introduced the two major concepts of continuous computing: downtime and uptime. Chapter three goes a step further and aims at defining business continuity...

Based on the framework defined in Chapter III, the fourth chapter discusses the models of information architectures that are used in implementing business computing solutions. In...

After identifying major downtime points within a client-server architecture in Chapter IV, Chapter V discusses in more details enterprise servers and server operating...

Server configurations described in Chapter V are operated by server operating systems. Server-based application software and business-critical applications are installed on these...

Server operating systems described in Chapter VI usually come preinstalled. Additional components can be installed “on-demand” in the form of ServerWare components and modules...

Chapter VIII discusses the server operating systems’ main attributes from the selection perspective. Several selection criteria are explained through a model that contains 22...

Chapter IX focuses on the role of system administration as an IT-profession and system administrator as a person who does the administrative (managerial) activites on servers and...

Chapters V-IX dealt with server operating environment and its role in ensuring business continuity mostly in cases of ongoing data processing operations. Having a server down and...

In addition to standard storage and traditional tape-based backup technologies explained in Chapter X, businesses employ advanced storage technologies in order to achieve higher...

Continuous computing technologies explored in previous chapters, in many cases, are located on different locations. However, they depend on each other and are bound to data...

After explaining several continuous computing technologies in previous chapters, the book focuses on business continuity management in Chapter XIII. Ensuring higher levels of...

Continuous computing technologies are employed in order to achieve business continuity from the business operations perspective. In the same time, these technologies are the main...

Significant changes in information technology (IT), the Internet, and e-business technology have increased the need for continuous and agile data access, in particular for...

Business computing has evolved into an organizational engine that drives business and provides a powerful source for competitive advantage. In order to achieve higher levels of...