The world of virtualization continues to expand, and the reach of Microsoft's  Hyper-V hypervisor continues to expand with it. This book seeks to reach beyond  simple, single-host hypervisor deployment, and provide guidance on clustering hosts  together for redundancy, performance, and more thorough utilization of...

• Save time and effort while getting more value from your...

• Get to grips with the essentials of OpenFlow and its ecosystem features
• Thorough overview of OpenSource switches, controllers, and tools
• Build your own laboratory and...

• Design, implement, test, and execute solid disaster recovery plans for your SharePoint environment with this essential guide
• Learn outofthebox backup and restore...

Practical IPv6 for Windows Administrators is a handy guide to implementing IPv6 in a Microsoft Windows environment. This is the book you need if you are a Microsoft Windows Administrator confronted with IPv6 and in need of a quick resource to get up and going. The book covers the current state of IPv6 and its support in Microsoft...

• Learn about Apache Lucene and ElasticSearch design and architecture to fully understand how this great search engine works
• Design, configure, and distribute your index, coupled...

The new paradigm of pervasive computing was born from the needs of highly mobile workers to access and transfer data while on the go. Significant advances in the technology have lent and will continue to lend prevalence to its...

ArcGIS for Desktop is a powerful suite of software tools for creating and using maps, compiling, analyzing and sharing geographic information, using maps and geographic information in applications, and managing geographic databases. But...

This book consists of a number of chapters addressing different aspects of activity recognition, roughly in three main categories of topics. The first topic will be focused on activity modeling, representation and reasoning using mathematical models, knowledge representation formalisms and AI techniques. The second topic will concentrate on...

Cryptography is a vital technology that underpins the security of information in computer networks. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the role that cryptography plays in providing information security for technologies such as the Internet, mobile phones, payment cards, and wireless local area networks. Focusing on the...

After a quick review of the of introductory topics of Visual Basic 2012 and .NET 4.5, this book moves quickly into advanced topics such as data access with ADO.NET, security, ASP.NET web programming with Visual Basic, Windows workflow, and threading....