Questões de Concurso – Aprova Concursos

This text refers to questions from 39 to 41

There are very broad trends that affect almost all industries

and we can see them manifest in specific ways in each industry.

Generally, there is, as if it were, a kind of a “perfect storm"

gathering. With the more widespread adoption of the Internet, more

and more users are turning to it for e-commerce, trading,

reservations, gambling, and so on. This in turn increases the

numbers of transaction and information processing that need to be

conducted in near-real-time. In addition, organizations are using

more and more real-time systems to analyze information on-the-fly

and make automated decisions based on this information analysis

in real time. This is also becoming feasible because of the

significant reductions in the cost of computing infrastructure:

powerful machines based on commodity x86 architectures, open

source operating systems (Linux, Solaris), etc. With grid

technologies (such as GigaSpaces), they can aggregate these

machines into powerful computer systems previously only possible

with expensive mainframes and proprietary SMP machines.

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