Information Technology (IT), or in English known as Information technology (IT) is a generic term for any technology that helps humans create, modify, store, communicate and / or disseminate information.
IT brings together high-speed computing and communications for data, voice and video. Examples of Information Technology are not just personal computers, but also telephones, TVs, electronic appliances, and modern handheld devices (such as mobile phones).
In a business context, the Information Technology Association of America explains
Processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by microelectronics based on a combination of computing and telecommunications. The term in the modern sense first appeared in a 1958 article published in the Harvard Business Review, in which the authors Leavitt and Whisler commented that "new technologies do not yet have a single name established.
We will call it information technology (IT). "Some of the modern and emerging fields of information technology are the next generation of web technologies, bioinformatics, '' Cloud Computing '', global information systems, large-scale knowledge base.