There are many reasons why you might be moving to a smaller home. Maybe your children have left the nest and you’re ready to fly the coop to a smaller, more manageable home, or maybe you’re about to return to the city after living in the suburbs for a couple of decades. Perhaps you’re exchang ing one large home for two...
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...
This book provides an overview about the state-of-the-art solutions and the most recent advances in schema matching and mapping, both recognized as key areas of metadata management. Tasks involving metadata are indeed pervasive in databases and information systems and include schema evolution, schema and ontology integration and matching, XML...
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...
According to the TIOBE Programming Community Index, PHP is the most popular programming
language after C/C++ and Java.1 Gartner predicts that dynamic programming languages will be
critical to the success of many next-generation application development efforts and sees PHP as one
of the strongest representatives of this type of...
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the next version of the protocol that is used for communications on
the Internet. IPv6 is a protocol that has been in existence for many years, but it has not yet replaced
IPv4. IPv4 has some limitations that were not anticipated when it was first created. Because IPv6 overcomes
many of these...
Amazon Web Services is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform in the Cloud, which businesses can take advantage of as their needs demand. The Amazon Cloud provides the enterprise with the flexibility to choose whichever solution is required to solve specific problems, ultimately reducing costs by only paying for what you use.
The intention of this book is to provide a thorough reference for those considering a migration
into the virtualized world. The majority of our target readers will likely be seasoned system
administrators and engineers who grew up in and still manage primarily a hardware-based
server environment containing a large assortment of both...
A complete guide to Pentaho Kettle, the Pentaho Data lntegration toolset for ETL
This practical book is a complete guide to installing, configuring, and managing Pentaho Kettle. If you’re a database administrator or developer, you’ll first get up to speed on Kettle basics and how to apply Kettle to create ETL...
Good system administrators recognize problems long before anyone asks, "Hey, is the Internet down?" Nagios, an open source system and network monitoring tool, has emerged as the most popular solution for sys admins in organizations of all sizes. It's robust but also complex, and Nagios: System and Network Monitoring, 2nd...
Polymericmaterials, both “inert” and degradable, constantly interact with the
surroundings. Because of this interaction changes take place in the polymer
matrix and small molecules are released to the environment. Reliable methods
for testing biodegradability and environmental interaction of renewable
resources and...
Deciding to take the leap from one technology to another is a difficult one. You face the risk of improper implementation of the technology, which can cause performance issues. You also face possible impact to business logic, which can produce disruption to your customers and partners. Many core business processes were written many years ago and...
