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.

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.

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.

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.

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 overview of the world's largest computer company. It provides full coverage of IBM's e-business strategy to leverage Internet technology and of its new emphasis on IBM Global Services, its fast-growing consulting business. Profiles of IBM's personal computer, RS/6000, NUMA-Q, AS/400, and S/390 families, developed through brief case studies, show how each fits in a contemporary business context. New terms are defined as they are introduced, and 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.

Explains how the eServer iSeries systems can supply a business's needs, providing information on the latest models and options, disk storage capabilities, printers, and tape drives.