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...
This book stemmed from the author’s other book—Software Performance and Scalability: a Quantitative Approach, published by Wiley in 2009. That book helps
readers grasp the basic concepts, principles, methodologies, best practices, queueing theories, and profiling tools associated with optimizing software performance and...
Welcome to the Microsoft Official Academic Course (MOAC) program for Windows Server
Administration Fundamentals. MOAC represents the collaboration between Microsoft
Learning and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. publishing company. Microsoft and Wiley teamed up
to produce a series of textbooks that deliver compelling and innovative teaching...
Trust the best selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn, prepare, and practice for exam success. They are built with the objective of providing assessment, review, and practice to help ensure you are fully prepared for your certification exam.
This book is for anyone using or considering Puppet as a systems automation tool.
Readers of this book should be familiar with Linux systems administration and basic
Ruby. I’ll cover the basics of using Puppet manifests for configuration management and
techniques for executing and managing those configurations with...
Cisco® Nexus switches and the new NX-OS operating system are rapidly becoming the new de facto standards for data center distribution/aggregation layer networking. NX-OS builds on Cisco IOS to provide advanced features that will be increasingly crucial to efficient data center operations. NX-OS and Cisco...
Recently, the rapid and fundamental advances in computing technologies have been driving the role and
scope of software systems to a new level. A number of new types of software systems are emerging,
among which service based systems, cloud computing, pervasive computing, and Internet of Things are
eminent examples. For these systems,...
XenApp 6 is the leader in application hosting and virtualization delivery, allowing
users from different platforms such as Windows, Mac, Linux, and mobile devices to
connect to their business applications. It reduces resources and costs for application
distribution and management. Using Citrix XenApp 6, you can deploy secure...
I have been working with Hyper-V since the beta release of it for Windows Server 2008. There
was a lot to learn with the brand new product. It quickly became evident that Hyper-V was just
a tiny piece of the entire puzzle. A Hyper-V project is much more than just a virtualization project.
It is a project that will change how your server...
AS A PROCES S IMPROVEMENT professional, I have experienced many team
challenges. Big challenges. It is not unusual to see teams that seem so perfectly
compatible start in excitement only to fizzle in different directions and
end up not working together. Products suffer, customers suffer, and ultimately...
Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process. This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the build, deployment, and testing...
Thousands of IT organizations have adopted clustering to improve the availability of mission-critical software services. Today, with the rapid growth of cloud computing environments, clustering is even more crucial.
