Do you think that only experts with a deep understanding of the inner workings of ASP.NET, SQL Server, and IIS can improve a website's performance? Think again - because this book tosses that notion out of the window. It will help you resolve every web developer's nightmare - a slow website - with angry managers looking over your...

Your enterprise data is your most critical asset. If it's compromised, your business can be destroyed. Don't let that happen-leverage today's state-of-the-art strategies, best practices, and technologies and protect your critical information. In...

This book offers a unique scientific approach to the new field of critical infrastructure protection: it uses network theory, optimization theory, and simulation software to analyze and understand how infrastructure sectors evolve,...

• Learn how to work with the vCloud API
• Covers the recently launched VMware vCloud Suite 5.5
• Step-by-step instructions to simplify infrastructure provisioning
• Real-life implementation of tested...

• Get to grips with the fundamentals of scripting in C# with Unity
• Create an awesome, 2D platformer game from scratch using the principles of object-oriented programming and coding in...

An embedded system is a computer system designed for specific control functions within a larger system—often with real-time computing constraints. It is embedded as part of a...

Ontologies tend to be found everywhere. They are viewed as the silver bullet for many applications, such as database integration, peer-to-peer systems, e-commerce, semantic web services, or social networks. However, in open or evolving systems, such as the semantic web, different parties would, in general, adopt different ontologies. Thus,...

• Includes coverage of HP's new Integrity Virtual Machines, Global Workload Manager, Virtualization Manager, and Capacity Advisor

• Plan, implement, and manage virtualization to drive maximum business...

Environmentalism and the civil rights movement have been two of the most important social movements in the United States over the past half century. At first glance, these two great movements would appear to have little or nothing in common with each other. And, in fact, some observers have argued that steps taken to improve the...