Information technology: a great future ahead
Information technology is one of the hottest topics at present. The word information technology was given by Jim Dom sic in the year 1982. He found the data processing to be out dated and hence coined this computer field as information technology. According to information technology association of America( IIAA) the information technology is the study, design, implementation, support and management of computer based information system particularly computer software and computer hardware.
In fact information technology is a very vast topic. You will definitely find that almost all the computer application can be summed up under information technology. Somebody says that when computer and communication technology combines then information technology takes birth. Information technology is a general term that describes any technology that helps to store, manipulate, communicate and produce information.
In few words there are four words with the help of which you can define information technology. They are:
1.Storage
2.Retrieval
3.Manipulation
4.Communication.
These are the four words which defines the term information technology. However you cannot say that that it is too little to learn. In fact it is really very big field and if you will clearly understand the above four points then you will come to understand how big this topic is. It is really a very big issue and you will find out very soon that why this field is leading the world at present.
As far as storage is concerned, all the information systems come under it. Apart from information system you can also add the storage technique. I have used the word information system because you will find out that they are also a sort of data storage software. However they can be called complete information technology software. You will find out that they are related to all the four keywords which in combination form the field information technology. You must have come across hard disk and other types of storage media either it is primary storage media or secondary storage media. However at present I do not want to talk about the storage media. I must tell you that storage media is a very small part of IT. And still you can understand how vast topic it is.
I must say that whatever software implementation you are talking about, comes under information technology. Hence just want to say one thing and that is, you cannot really neglect information technology no matter what you are talking about.
