A System Engineering Approach to e-Infrastructure
Julie Marcel, Edison Spi · InTech eBooks · 2012
Electronic infrastructures (e-Infrastructures) are the basic resources used by Information and Communication Technologies. These resources are heterogeneous networks, which together constitute a large computing and storage power, allowing resources, facilities and services to be provided to the creation of systems in which communication and business operations are almost immediate, with implications in business organization, task management and human relations, forming a kind of patchwork of technologies, people and social institutions.