Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 381 pages
- Published by: Addison Wesley Publishing Company April 21, 1995
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 020163175X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0201631753
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.8 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Book Info
The aim of this book is to show techniques and procedures that will make the LAN a valuable business tool. Emphasis is on providing an efficient, reliable system that will deliver maximum availability and performance. Paper. DLC: NetWare (Computer file)
From the Inside Flap
This book has developed from experiences gathered over some ten years working with PC based LANs, and a further fourteen years working in the more traditional areas of computing with mainframes and minicomputers. In the past few years I have been something of an evangelist for the cause of PC LANs, while still recognizing that it was often difficult to ignore the charge that there was a lack of discipline in the way that many PC users and developers worked. This perception has probably slowed down the acceptance of the LAN as a serious business tool.
The trouble with evangelism is that it tends to polarize opinion. Opposing sides refuse to accept that there is any merit in the arguments of the other, and they spend much time and effort on dogma. This has been the case in the world of personal computing over the past few years. The PC gave a much needed freedom to computer users, and ultimately has made the manufacturers of greater computers recast their strategies (or in some cases not do this and fail). In the rush for freedom many of the strengths of earlier systems were ignored or discarded. Conversely, 'traditional' computing solutions were still applied where the newer technologies were patently more suitable. It seems that we are now approaching a maturity where the strengths and merits of the technology options are recognized and implemented. A great deal of effort is now directed at making systems work together rather than producing marketing pronouncements to cloud the issues.
The aim of this book is to show techniques and procedures that will make the LAN a valuable business tool. The emphasis is on providing an efficient, reliable system that will deliver maximum availability and performance. This is done by making best use of support resources, which requires a considered and planned approach. This is at some variance with the 'fire fighting' that characterizes many PC installations. Of course, such emergency work is inevitable from time to time in any installation; but I hope to show that this should be the exception rather than the rule.
A prime consideration is to establish a good relationship with user departments, so that the whole installation can work together to optimize the overall system. This makes fault reporting and investigation simpler, and by properly documenting problem solutions re-occurrences of errors can be rapidly cured. The problem investigation must be thorough, and this book shows techniques to achieve this.
Ian Theakston
York, March 1994
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