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Article: Open Systems Connectivity To Mainframe Storage Networks.(excerpt from Marc Farley's book, "Building Storage Networks")(Technology Information)
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- Computer Technology Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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This article, excerpted from Marc Farley 's book: "Building Storage Networks ", was reproduced with the permission of The McGraw-Hill Companies. Copyright 2000. Osborne/McGraw-Hill.
IT organizations with both mainframes and large open systems computers have tried to improve the ability to share, transfer, and exchange data between these platforms for several years. The ability to do these things supports new applications that cross organizational boundaries and help integrate corporate policies and decisions. Corporate restructuring around the concepts of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems such as SAP, Peoplesoft, Baan, and others depends on the ability ...