R is a high-level language and an environment for data analysis and graphics. The design of R was heavily influenced by two existing languages: Becker, Chambers and Wilks’ S and Sussman’s Scheme. The resulting language is very similar in appearance to S, but the underlying implementation and semantics are derived from Scheme. This...
This book is written for anyone who wants to create cutting-edge Web-based applications.
If you are a Webmaster or Web page designer and want to create dynamic, data-driven Web pages,
this book is for you. If you are an experienced database administrator who wants to take advantage
of the Web to publish or collect data, this...
One of the most debated consequences regarding the increased availability and use
of information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially since the early
1990s, have been their impact on economic growth. Generally speaking, ICT can
serve to reduce transaction costs at all levels of a commercial transaction. With the
emergence...
This book is designed to help you prepare for the Cisco VPN certification exam. The
VPN exam is one in a series of exams required for the Cisco Certified Network
Professional - Security (CCNP - Security) certification. This exam focuses on the application
of security principles with regard to Cisco IOS routers,...
Data mining has developed rapidly and has become very popular in the past two decades, but actually has
its origin in the early stages of IT, then being mostly limited to one-dimensional searching in databases.
The statistical basis of what is now also referred to as data mining has often been laid centuries ago. In
corporate...
With the availability of chips offering constantly increasing computational performance and
functionality, design of more and more complex applications becomes possible. This is particularly
true for the domain of image processing, which is characterized by huge computation
efforts. Unfortunately, this evolution risks to be stopped by...
Data communication networks are widely used today and are an integral part of our
daily life. The Internet is a medium for business, personal, and government communication,
and it is difficult to envision today’s society without this essential
infrastructure. The continued success of the Internet is dependent on our ability
to...
SQL Server 2008 is Microsoft’s latest data platform providing data management and analytical solutions for the enterprise. The platform is trusted, ensures business continuity, and is more predictable and more scalable than ever before. Although similar to SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 offers a tremendous number of new features and...
The increasing costs of creating and maintaining infrastructures for delivering services to consumers have led to the emergence of cloud based third party service providers renting networks, computation power, storage, and even entire software application suites. On the other hand, service customers demand competitive pricing, service level...
If you’ve done any previous research on SharePoint disaster recovery topics, such as content recovery, backup and restore, and high availability, you’ve probably found quite a bit of information on the subject. That held true for us when we wrote the original Disaster Recovery Guide for SharePoint 2007, and it’s just as true...
Functional programming languages like F#, Erlang, and Scala are attracting attention as an efficient way to handle the new requirements for programming multi-processor and high-availability applications. Microsoft's new F# is a true functional language and C# uses functional language features for LINQ and other recent...
Virtualization is one of the hottest topics in the tech industry today. The leader in the virtualization space at the present time is without a doubt VMware with its virtual infrastructure offering. As VMware software began to take its place in the data center and demand respect in the industry, the need for a...
