The ITIL Editions 2011 has been updated for clarity, consistency, correctness and completeness. By focusing on delivery and control process activities, ITIL Service Operation describes how a highly desirable steady state of managing services can be achieved on a day-to-day basis. Key Features The updated ITIL publications share a similar...

• All you need to develop and manage a GateIn portal and all available portlets.
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A data model contains tables and relationships between tables. Tuning a data model involves nNormalization and dDe-normalization. Different approaches are required depending on the application, such as OLTP or a...

The Ubuntu distribution simplifies Linux by providing a sensible collection of applications, an easy-to-use package manager, and lots of fine-tuning, which make it possibly the best Linux for desktops and laptops. Readers of both Linux Journal and TUX Magazine...

This book brings together indispensable knowledge for building efficient, high-value, Linux-based embedded products: information that has never been assembled in one place before. Drawing on years of experience as an...

Microsoft’s principal data access technology, ADO.NET Entity Framework, has had two major releases as part of the .NET Framework. NET 3.5 brought us the first version of Entity Framework, which is covered in the first edition of Programming Entity Framework. In 2010, Microsoft .NET 4 was released; it contained the next version of...

Oracle RMAN for Absolute Beginners is a gentle introduction to the use of Oracle's Recovery Manager software to make backups of an Oracle database, and to restore all or part of a database in the event that data loss occurs. It is often said that a database administrator's #1 job responsibility is to be able to recover from...