Cisco Networking Simplified

Part VII. How Businesses Share Data

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• Data Center 222

• Storage Area Networks 230

• Content Networking 238

• Caching 242

• Desktop Protocols 246

• SNA Infrastructure 252

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Remember the talk of bricks and mortar versus clicks and portals? During the 1990s, prognosticators and financial “experts” predicted the demise of traditional brick-and-mortar businesses. Web-based commerce and information exchange would replace traditional physical forms of business such as malls and banks.

Although this scenario never quite developed, web-based commerce and business-to-business information exchange has. Large businesses today rely on their computer ...