Learn how to develop powerful data analytics applications quickly for SQL Server database administrators and developers. Organizations will be able to sift data and derive the business intelligence needed to drive business decisions and profit. The addition of R to SQL Server 2016 places a powerful analytical processor into an...
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A full-color beginner's guide to the core concepts and skills of virtualization
Virtualization is the IT world's hottest trend in recent years, and many colleges do not yet have curricula in place to prepare students for this important area. This guide fills the need, with a learn-by-doing approach to mastering the...
Contextual computing has been around for several years with a variety of names such as pervasive computation and omnipresent computing. Recently there has been a drive toward making personal digital assistants (PDAs) more aware of their environment. For example, a cell phone may sense that it is in a conference room and reason that it should...
Since I wrote The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press, 2009), I have had the
opportunity to meet and speak with thousands of information technology (IT) professionals
around the world, both in person and virtually via different venues. Even as
that last book was being printed, the ideas to be found in this new book were coming...
This book answers the need for a practical, hands-on guide for assessing power stability in real time, rather than in offline simulations. Since the book is primarily geared toward the practical aspects of the subject, theoretical background is reduced to the strictest minimum. For the benefit of readers who may not be quite familiar with the...
We saw Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for the first time in September 2005, when the LINQ Project was announced during the Professional Developers Conference (PDC 2005). We immediately realized the importance and the implications of LINQ for the long term. At the same time, we felt it would be a huge error to look to LINQ only for its...
Today an increasing proportion of the applications of mathematics involves discrete rather than continuous models. The main reason for this trend is the integration of the computer into more and more of modem society. This book is intended for a one-semester introductory course in discrete mathematics.
Everyone is talking and writing about innovation. It is the fuel of business strategy. Design and innovation are words that are often used together or interchangeably. Design for us is both a broad concept of change through human problem solving and a word used to describe specific fields such as engineering design, interface design, or industrial...
Puppet is a configuration management tool that has enjoyed phenomenal growth over
the last few years. Propelled by increasing demands on sysadmins, and the continuous
growth of infrastructure (both physical and virtual), Puppet has been one of the key
technology components of the DevOps movement. This cultural shift...
Single processor supercomputers have achieved great speeds and have been pushing hardware technology to the physical limit of chip manufacturing. But soon this trend will come to an end, because there are physical and architectural bounds, which limit the computational power that can be achieved with a single processor system. In...
