Chapter 7. Network Requirements for SAPBuilding the Link Between Servers and Clients

In this chapter we step into a parallel universe with respect to the field of server systems running SAP applications. We call it a parallel universe because the technology, the terminology, as well as the vendors for networking technologies are almost all different compared with the server-computing infrastructure. Because these worlds are different, many companies will create a separate department for the network infrastructure and management, more or less isolated from the department responsible for the operation of business applications like SAP. This isolation often leads to islands of job responsibility, whereas a clean integration across both is key for ...

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