The first book to take a comprehensive look at industry leader IBM's overall strategy and how all major IBM product lines fit into that strategy, This book is filled with practical advice gleaned from the authors' years of experience. The text is ideal for CIOs and other data processing management/staff involved with defining the future direction of the computing environment.

Considered the bible of the IBM zSeries and S/390 world, this new edition closely examines the role large computers will play in the new century. All the new hardware models and operating system products—Linux, VSE, MVS, VM, AIX, and Open Edition—are now available for the zSeries and are fully explained, as are critical business issues such as cost justification, lease versus purchase, support, security, and maintenance. Hypothetical small, medium, and large businesses are described and then outfitted with the appropriate zSeries solution. This replaces 1885068700.

With the announcement of the new line of network computers called IBM NetworkStations, comes the first comprehensive overview of its architecture, models, and options.

IBM’s vision of the future of computing and how its evolving technologies, product lines, and services fit into that future are the subject of this broad look at the world’s largest computer company. Discussing IBM’s e-business strategy to leverage Internet technology, its new emphasis on IBM Global Services, and its fast-growing consulting business this overview. profiles IBM’s new eServer xSeries, pSeries, iSeries, and zSeries, showing how each fits into an e-business context. A companion web site accessible only to buyers of this book provides the latest news and additional resources related to IBM technology and product lines.

Annotation Introducing the brands of Intel-based IBM computers, this guide shows how to integrate these systems into business for greater efficiency, productivity, and overall business management. Written for nontechnical users, the most current xSeries information is included. Differences and uses for the assorted computers are detailed, as are the latest peripherals, software options, and networking issues. Guidelines for choosing operating systems to fit business needs are also discussed.

Providing an overview of IBM's most current technology and the most important IBM product lines, this book will help readers gain a high-level understanding of the system's vision for the future of computing, including the company-wide e-business strategy.

Typical deployment architectures introduce challenges to fully using the shared metadata platform across products, environments, and servers. Data privacy and information security requirements add even more levels of complexity. IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server provides a comprehensive, metadata-driven platform for delivering trusted information across heterogeneous systems. This IBM Redbooks® publication presents guidelines and criteria for the successful deployment of InfoSphere Information Server components in typical logical infrastructure topologies that use shared metadata capabilities of the platform, and support development lifecycle, data privacy, information security, high availability, and performance requirements. This book can help you evaluate information requirements to determine an appropriate deployment architecture, based on guidelines that are presented here, and that can fulfill specific use cases. It can also help you effectively use the functionality of your Information Server product modules and components to successfully achieve your business goals. This book is for IT architects, information management and integration specialists, and system administrators who are responsible for delivering the full suite of information integration capabilities of InfoSphere Information Server.