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What Is Information Technology?

Many organizations differentiate between Information Systems (IS) and Information Technology (IT). In general, IS deals with software and system development, and IT is concerned with technology management. Certainly, IT is the collection of technologies and resources used to manage information. Organizations place great value on their information, as they should, and they expect the IT group to manage this information well. It is essential that those of us who work in IT remember the "I" stands for information and that our primary responsibilities are to collect, retain, distribute, protect, and when appropriate destroy that information. When a single group is responsible for these tasks, consistency is accomplished ...