Are small
Are easy to work with
Are easy to represent electronically
Bytes
Megabytes
Watts
Binary digits
Data channel
Basic components
Main memory
Software
Main memory and cache
Optical and magnetic discs
Sites have a large number of users and servers are organized into a collection of servers
Computer crashes
Server is private
Tweeting on twitter
Uploading a video on youtube
Accessing a video on Facebook
Retrieving your mail on yahoo
Videochat on a mac
Write a document or query a customer database
Control a computer's resources
Operating systems
Databases
Optical disks
Instruction sets
Disk
License
Drive
Byte
PC virtualization
Server virtualization
Site licensing
Desktop virtualization
Software installed into devices such as printers
Graphic programs
Microsoft excel
Inventory tracking software for an auto manufacturer
It can't be changed or upgraded
It is easy to access
Users do not need to load firmware into the device's memory
It is more complicated than microsoft excel
Microsoft office
Itunes
Amazon
Available to the public
Only available to a select few
Hard to access
Lotus notes
Linux with Ubantu or OpenOffice clients
Megabyte
Kilobyte
Gigabyte
Multiple downloading
Mass processing
Memory swapping
Server farm
Websites
Multiple servers
Database
Byte
Grid
Processor
The application system
The operating system
The budgeting system
One computer hosts the appearance of many computers
There are a lot of graphics
There is a collection of servers
Software developed in-house
Software developed by children
Software that is unreliable
Thick client
Thin client
Acquiring costs
Data conversion costs
Repairing costs
Bit
Byte
Chip
Disk