Hardware and Software: How it can relate to Mobile Business

             Businesses today are adapting more to our increase and improvement on technology. Specifically, a lot of companies are transporting their business on the go and are being transferred through the world of mobile devices. This means more work to be done out of the office, and some of that work being collaborated with the process of the office’s information systems themselves. The main piece of hardware that makes all this work is the central processing unit (CPU). The CPU is what makes our computers today function with its power, speed, and control of transferring data from one place to another. Finance and stock companies, for example, take advantage of CPUs processed in their machines to help them calculate and predict statistics and trade information, a task that is too much for the human mind.

 But with CPUs processing and transferring data, certain computers and processors have limits to their storage capacity, also known generally as a byte (B). The bytes represent all of the characters and coding that make up simple items or images, which eventually combined result in creation of computer programs. Some companies use more bytes than others, depending on how much computer usage and information they acquire to meet their business needs. Another piece of hardware device that helps businesses transfer these bytes of information are solid state storage devices (SSDs). In the past few years, businesses and everyday computer users transfer their information and files mostly through a universal serial bus (USB), which is a little memory stick varying in different memory sizes that has made such hardware memory storage devices such as CDs and DVDs closer to being completely extinct from the computer world itself. Whether in an office from one desktop to another, or even out on the road for the typical business traveler, these little memory stick makes business life a lot simpler. With the increase of online business flow, multiprocessing comes into the picture when computer technology for companies increases.

Parallel computing, when several processes are linked together and work with one another at the same time, will save time for offices to compute their work. Going through each process individually will take much longer, for some of these operations by the CPU are somewhat impossible for the human mind. Office programs, now being used on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, can now calculate data and produce it to the viewer in various forms of computer data, such as images and spreadsheets, to further complete them into business presentations. But as CPU technology expands, there is more room and risk for computer viruses and software bugs to conflict with mobile businesses. Grid computing can help resolve these computer errors when multiple computer systems together operate to solve a common problem. Many software companies, with their programs used every day by these businesses, often send out updates to their programs for any problems interfering with their programs processing. With grid computing, businesses can benefit from it because of its low cost and not spend too much money on more processors to help resolve these issues. The idea of having one giant grid computer system primarily to act on these problems will create a steady flow of these computers to succeed for these mobile businesses today.