Once a corporation has committed to migrating their legacy SNA networks to IP, they are in a position to exploit the power, flexibility and benefits of their new network. They are able to leverage the growing value of their mainframes, as well as the data and business logic that resides within. As such, corporations large and small, are looking toward the Web and Web-to-host connectivity as a path toward e-business and e-commerce.
Today, most mainframe installations are increasingly interested in TCP/IP implementation and connnecting the intranet and Internet to their enterprise systems to access their legacy data and applicatios. This is where the Netfinity ESCON Adapter offers capabilities not found in other channel-attach products, TCP/IP Direct Connect and the Multi-Path Channel (MPC+) drivers.
Size and location make little difference if your Web site is offline or your internal communication is interrupted. If your customers can’t communicate with you, you cannot communicate with your customers. In order to succeed, a company must manage its network – every node, every server, every connection - and the functions it is intended to perform must be clearly identified.
The phenomenal growth of the Internet in the latter part of the 1990s will lead to a fundamental shift in the information technology industry in this decade. No questions linger as to whether application hosting will catch on, but questions abound as to how the service will be delivered.