Downsizing: How to Get Big Gains from Smaller Computer Systems

Baker, Richard H.

Business & Money

McGraw=Hill

Details how to assess the benefits of transferring applications performed on mainframes to PCs, workstations, and local area networks. Technical and managerial concerns are addressed. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Downsizing: How to Get Big Gains from Smaller Computers Systems

Computing McGraw-Hill

Networking the Enterprise: How to Build Client/Server Systems That Work (McGraw-Hill Series on Computer Communications)

As more and more people use ever-growing volumes of computer-processed information to do their jobs, they need to be able to access computers of differing types and sizes both inside and outside their organizations. This practical guide shows you how these diverse resources can be linked by multiple computer networks to gain an information advantage. Packed with workable strategies, techniques, and solutions, it provides a technical road map to understanding and implementing enterprise systems, and to forging new relationships between these systems and their users. This hands-on resource offers succinct overviews of many complex technologies, including operating systems, peer-to-peer networks, the OSI model, open systems, and interconnected LANs. It also takes you on a walking tour of your own organization to see how the technology interacts with business and human values.

Management & Leadership

This book offers solutions to the growing problems of information overload, helping managers gain a better understanding of challenging technologies. Table of Contents: What is Enterprise Networking?; Client/Server: More than Just a Pretty Face; The Evolving Database: More than Basic Data; The Relational Database; Wider Areas; Getting Networks to Network; Choosing the Right Platforms; Getting Started with an Enterprise System; Managing the Enterprise Network; The Enterprise Is Made Up of People. 100 illustrations.

Best Ways To Protect You LAN! What's the fastest, easiest way to master all the new tools and techniques you need to maintain network security, reliability, and integrity? Richard Baker's Network Security! Inside you'll find low-cost, workable solutions for keeping your company's vital data and equipment safe from hackers, viruses, power failures, industrial spies, logic bombs, and a host of other new security threats. You'll learn to: build a security plan; assess risks; control physical access; build security procedures; master hardware and software security; overcome the perils of passwords; secure any desktop; protect and manage local area and enterprise networks; stay abreast of E-mail security/privacy issues and other legal problems; and much more.

Network Security: How to Plan for It and Achieve It

A guide for network professionals and nontechnical managers explains how extranets can benefit sales, marketing, on-line publishing, and customer service through the facilitation of computer to computer communication between businesses and their customers

Extranets: The Complete Sourcebook

As a Mac user, you may often feel like you are in a unique world and that the programs you use are even more unique. Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac is no exception and Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac In a Snap covers all of the innovative program features. A unique random-access format makes all of these nuggets of information and advice easily and instantly accessible. Packed with more than 160 essential tasks, tips and techniques for the new Mac version of Microsoft Office 2004, this book will help you zero in on the task you're most interested in so that you can learn and get back to work.

Microsoft Office 2004 For Mac In A Snap

Computers & Technology

Operating Systems

Sams.

Guide to SQL: Database Management for IBM PCs and Compatibles

Programming Languages

Scott Foresman Trade

Explains SQL's basic concepts, features, and operations and shows how to use them in conjunction with dBASE commands and functions

Guide to SQL Under dBASE IV (Scott, Foresman IBM Computer Books)

Software

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Downsizing: How to Get Big Gains from Smaller Computer Systems

Downsizing: How to Get Big Gains from Smaller Computers Systems

Networking the Enterprise: How to Build Client/Server Systems That Work (McGraw-Hill Series on Computer Communications)

Networking the Enterprise: How to Build Client/Server Systems That Work (McGraw-Hill Series on Computer Communications)

Network Security: How to Plan for It and Achieve It

Network Security: How to Plan for It and Achieve It

Extranets: The Complete Sourcebook

Microsoft Office 2004 For Mac In A Snap

Guide to SQL: Database Management for IBM PCs and Compatibles

Guide to SQL Under dBASE IV (Scott, Foresman IBM Computer Books)