An Industry-Based Study on the Efficiency Benefits of Utilising Public Cloud Infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code Tools in the IT Environment Creation Process

The traditional approaches to IT infrastructure management typically involve the procuring, housing and running of company-owned and maintained physical servers. In recent years, alternative solutions to IT infrastructure management based on public cloud technologies have emerged. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), also known as public cloud infrastructure, allows for the on-demand provisioning of IT infrastructure resources via the Internet. Cloud Service Providers (CSP) such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) offer integration of their cloud-based infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools. These tools allow for the entire configuration of public cloud based infrastructure to be scripted out and defined as code. This thesis hypothesises that the correct utilization of IaaS and IaC can offer an organisation a more efficient type of IT infrastructure creation system than that of the organisations traditional method. To investigate this claim, an industry-based case study and survey questionnaire were carried out as part of this body of work. The case study involved the replacement of a manually managed IT infrastructure with that of the public cloud, the creation of which was automated via a framework consisting of IaC and related automation tools. The survey questionnaire was created with the intent to corroborate or refute the results obtained in the case study in the context of a wider audience of organisations. The results show that the correct utilization of IaaS and IaC technologies can provide greater efficiency in the management of IT networks than the traditional approac

Instructional communication in preservice education: Rapport, conflict, and classroom management

This study examines communication as instructional classroom practice and considers its increased inclusion in teacher preparation programs. While widely recognized as an important aspect of most university degree programs, communication pedagogy is often overlooked in schools of education curricula. Data collected from six current teachers suggest that the teachers demonstrated a value for instructional communication in three distinct ways that can all be attributed to their interaction with their students and classrooms. The teachers in this study demonstrated this through their building of rapport with their students, their strategies for both avoiding and resolving conflict within the classroom, and their use of a variety of classroom management techniques. Findings from this study suggest that greater focus on instructional communication techniques should be placed within all undergraduate teacher education courses as additional preparation and that knowledge of instructional communication can be critical to teachers beginning their careers in the classroom

Breaking the Back: The Continuous Battle over the Bank of England 1694-1715

England during the seventeenth century experienced unprecedented political and economic transformation. The rise and fall of the British monarchy, the subsequent political ascendance of Parliament and centralization of the state, sustained economic and commercial growth, and incessant wars abroad during the latter years of the century, contributed to a volatile political climate during the final years of the 1600s that contrasted greatly with the landscape earlier in the century. Specifically, said developments especially affected England’s landed aristocracy. Their cherished ideology of order suffered significant setbacks as both the expanded reach of the state and the new economic ideology that stressed the importance of the individual undermined traditional notions of a hierarchical society. The incorporation of the Bank of England in 1694 represented the product of an ever-expanding British state and its necessity to secure funds to support its various endeavors. Yet, many were displeased with the foundation of this state-controlled financial behemoth. Particularly, the burgeoning commercial interests and landed gentry remained virulently opposed to the Bank. Although the creation of the Bank served important state interests, changing economic and political dynamics of the seventeenth century rendered its establishment a heated point of contention among members of the emerging merchant classes and the socially prestigious landed aristocracy

Mas Marco: Mata Gelap, crossing language

Master of ArtsCenter for Southeast Asian StudiesUniversity of Michiganhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/149094/1/013850122.pd

Civil Procedure—Prima Facie Case

Andersen v. Beeline, 1 N. Y. 2d 169, 134 N. E. 2d 457 (1956)