LYT2 Current and Emerging Technology
Simple Gateways Request for Proposal
Simple Gateways was a positively easy task to setup with fundamental administrative operational functions. However, the drawback to progress in growth and expansion was probable. The company makes more revenue due to the rapid increase of customer demand for the company’s service, known as economies of scale. However, Simple Gateways could possibly fall into difficulties running the day-to-day operations of a small business, also known as diseconomy of scale (Ordóñez et al, 2012).
The company’s growth is existent but also in diseconomy of scale. Communication is crucial for Simple Gateways, and as such it is preeminent that communication be faultless. The daily operations within the company are setup by an inefficient system of collective problems in terms of efficiency, accuracy and time management. …show more content…
Since Simple Getaways has multiple processes, the proposed system will be programmed using critical regions (Misra, 2010). A critical region refers to a section that holds a shared resource and this resource can only be accessed by one process at a time. Mutual exclusion (MUTEX) allows only one process at the critical section at a time thus preventing multiple updates of a document by different staffs.
The proposed system will use distributed file system to facilitate information and documents sharing which can either permanently store information or only share information. The distributed file system will provide storage and retrieval, naming, sharing and protection of documents. Offices will share information through remote information sharing that allows a document to be transparently accessed by any office irrespective of the document’s location. The proposed system will also facilitate information sharing by the use of diskless