Last month we celebrated our anniversary issue with a retrospective column; temporarily abandoning our discussion on Network Resource Management. This month we will delve into an often unperceived, key aspect of this discipline: Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP). What is DRP? Disaster Recovery Planning is essentially formulating a strategy by which the desired business objective of…
This month I decided that in light of the fact that I was scheduled to attend a conference at IBM’s headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, where I was to observe the latest technology offering IBM had engineered, I would focus on this company’s new position and contributions to the networked computer world. Before I went…
Last month we covered fundamental networking concepts and terms and explored the decision process necessary to a initiate a successful LAN implementation. This month we will expand on this knowledge base by discussing a Windows ’95 network deployment in some depth. As the majority of new home computer owners have access to, and are familiar…
In response to numerous specific requests for information and the burgeoning interest in the topic, Monitor Magazine has responded with a new monthly feature: Computer Networking. This column will investigate networking fundamentals, benefits and new technology as it emerges. In this first article I want to focus on fundamentals: new terms, definitions and basic networking…