Katherine Jones

An introduction to data warehousing: what are the implications for the network?

Data warehousing is an information systems environment, rather than a product. It has emerged as an essential business entity for sophisticated analysis of data. This article presents a clear overview of the implications of data warehousing for business.

Secure internet access to SAP’s R–3: keeping dragons out

The security of the networking environment is critical for today’s corporations. Issues such as reliably identifying remote-access users, checking authorizations, data-transfer security and database security are of paramount importance. This article discusses a resolution of these problems for the Rs3 environment using CYBERSHIELD†.

Internet's SNMP and ISO's CMIP Protocols for Network Management

The scope of network management has both expanded and been clarified in the recent past. Here we will look at the underlying protocols which aid in the delivery of network management today.

Network management in the world of standards: The role of the snmp protocol in managing networks

SNMP has taken the network management world by storm. This article presents an in-depth tutorial on the protocol and its role in managing TCP/IP networks. Discussion of agents, MIBs and the role of the managing software are included.

Management of osi and tcp/ip networks: Integrated management with os/eye*node

Managing a network, large or small, is not a trivial task: todays networks contain heterogeneous computers and network devices; deal with different carriers across the wide area; connect widespread sites; and use a variety of different protocols through which to communicate data.

FDDI: Understanding the Physical Aspects of the Fibre Distributed Data Interface

This is the second of three articles focusing on FDDI. The definition and the applicable standards were covered in the previous article; the hardware associated with FDDI will be discussed herein; and the network management of FDDI will be described in a following article.

ServerWORKS manager: network management integrated with enterprise and applications servers

In response to the dilemma of increasing system costs and decreasing personnel costs, Digital Equipment Corporation has bundled ServerWORKS Manager with every Digital Prioris server. This provides the customer with a complete package of integrated network management software tools at no additional charge.

System Management for the Three-tiered SAP AG R–3 Environment

SAP provides software which supports many systems management needs. In addition, platform providers for R–3, the open systems business application product, have integrated the hardware and software to provide R–3 systems management.

Protecting UNIX Systems: Security Management with CA-UNICENTER

Created around a series of concepts, CA-UNICENTER addresses system entry validation, password controls, asset security, audit concerns, protection by default, protection by definition, and policy-based security.

Contingency Planning in LAN/WAN Environments

When a disaster recovery plan (DRP) is in place in a company, it is often solely for the mainframe; too often no attention is paid to the departmental distributed servers.