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Historical IBM Microcomputer Hardware/Software LAN Products

IT Toolbox

The concept of an overarching connectivity architecture such as SAA was one approach to managing these compromises. One clearly evident (if not explicitly stated) IBM strategy in managing outside competition was to coopt popular technology.

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The Impacts of IBM's SNA Networking on LANs Part 3

IT Toolbox

SNA is a layered architecture similar to the International Standards Organization's Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. SNA proper is divided into only five (not seven) layers?End End User and Physical layers are not part of the formal scope of SNA.

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7 enterprise data strategy trends

CIO Business Intelligence

Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it CIOs should prioritize their investment strategy to cope with the growing volume of complex, real-time data that’s pouring into the enterprise, advises Lan Guan, global data and AI lead at business consulting firm Accenture.

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

Fountainhead

HP, IBM and now even Cisco have solutions in the space, but I believe only Egenera has been doing it the longest, and has the broadest installed base of enterprises in the real-world using it and expanding footprint. F or the past months Ive held that new technologies are OK.

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Fountainhead: Where the Server Industry Went Amiss

Fountainhead

Usually the local network had state too – ensuring that the IP and MAC address of the motherboard were attached to switches and LANs in a particular way. So, we may not see a significant architectural change in stateful processing units - until the industry gradually acquiesces that there is an alternative to all of this madness.

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