Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the next version of the protocol that is used for communication among devices of all types on the Internet. IPv6 has been in existence for many years, but recently the deployment of IPv6 has accelerated greatly in the enterprise. IPv6 has been under continuous development and is maturing as real-world...

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...

In response to the overwhelming success of the 2000 symposium, its organizers...

DEAR READER, thank you for picking up this book! You have probably heard about WordPress already, the most popular self - hosted content management system (CMS) and blogging software in use today. WordPress powers literally millions of Web sites on the Internet, including high profi le sites such as TechCrunch and CNN ’ s blog....

In the last few years SharePoint has taken the world by storm. In fact, the product is one of the fastest growing products in the history of Microsoft. Companies of all sizes are rapidly implementing SharePoint and moving it to the center of their organization. The interesting thing about SharePoint, however, is that if you ask ten...

There are many students and professionals in science and engineering, other than those specifically interested in fields such as computer science or computer engineering, who need to know how to solve computational problems on computers. There are basically two approaches to meeting the needs of such people. One is to rely on software...

AS A CONSULTANT, I WORK WITH MANY DEVELOPERS. At each client I get to meet a new team and see how they develop software. I ’ ve seen great teams, and I ’ ve seen teams that are so broken they have never had a successful project. Over the years I ’ ve noticed that different teams along this success continuum have different...

Since the first edition of Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist came out in June 2008, we have been encouraged by the reception the book has received. Practitioners from a wide variety of industries— health care, energy, environmental science, life sciences, national intelligence, and publishing, to name a few—have told...

As I write this, Java is just beginning its second decade. Unlike many other computer languages whose influence begins to wane over the years, Java’s has grown stronger with the passage of time. Java leapt to the forefront of Internet programming with its first release. Each subsequent version has solidified that position. Today,...

Parallel hardware has been ubiquitous for some time now. It’s difficult to find a laptop, desktop, or server that doesn’t use a multicore processor. Beowulf clusters are nearly as common today as high-powered workstations were during the 1990s, and cloud computing could make distributed-memory systems as accessible as...

I knew the Internet before it got famous. There were places but no paths, no maps, no search engines. Entry required a key in the form of an IP address and an incantation in the language of UNIX. It was a small world that felt big because it was so easy to get lost in the shadowy realm of texts and data, completely devoid of color....

Yippie! I am thrilled that you picked up this book because it’s loaded with 100 creative and innovative ideas to help jumpstart your creativity and teach you to do more with your designs and photographs, faster and better, with Photoshop. Aft er fl ipping through the pages, you’ll soon discover how valuable an addition this...