Issue #93
February 2008

: : New eBook:
The Definitive Guide to Building a Windows Server 2008 Infrastructure

: : Essentials Series:
Communications Enabled Business

: : New Chapter:: End-User Experience Monitoring

: : Complete Volume:
Messaging and Web Security - Volume II

: : New eJournal:
Windows Administration
in Realtime

: : Complete eBook:
The Definitive Guide to Virtual Platform Management

: : Complete eBook:
The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL

: : Recently Announced Chapters

: : Start Building Your IT Library Today!

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New eBook: The Definitive Guide to Building a Windows Server 2008 Infrastructure

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The Definitive Guide to Building Windows Server 2008 Infrastructure will assist you in learning the parts of Server 2008 that are important to building the best possible Windows backbone for your business.  You’ll learn about the features of Server 2008 that should be implemented as soon as possible.  At the same time, you’ll also come away with an understanding of those where you might want to steer clear, or merely put on the back-burner for a little while.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Windows Server 2008, authored by Greg Shields, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/DGBWS2k8I.htm

The Essentials Series: Communications Enabled Business

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Communications-Enabled Business Processes (CEBP) is an important new innovation in the automation of human communications within the context of business applications. The Essentials Series: Communications Enabled Business illustrates the benefits of enabling business processes with communications capabilities (CEBP) as well as techniques, best practices, administration/management tools, third party utilities and example scenarios.

The Essentials Series: Communications Enabled Business, written by Ken Camp, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/ESCEB.htm

EUE is a major component of a successful BSM implementation. It provides one very important facet of data needed to make decisions about the efficacy of the business service under management: It illuminates the plight of the service’s users, giving the business an automated understanding of how effective they are servicing their customers. And it ultimately provides business leaders with the necessary financial data to help them understand the impact their systems have on the business’ bottom line.

Chapter 5: End-User Experience Monitoring, authored by Greg Shields, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/DGBSM.htm

Complete Volume: Messaging and Web Security - Volume II

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Volume Two of The Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security examines new challenges to combating the growing proliferation of online threats that includes spam, phishing, malware and spyware. This expert series includes twenty-seven articles in total, each authored by security veteran Dan Sullivan. The Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security - Volume II will be especially useful to small and mid-sized organizations that face the same challenges as larger enterprises, but are limited by their level of resources.

The Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security Volume II, authored by Dan Sullivan, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/ESMWSv2.htm

Windows Administration in Realtime is dedicated to educating the Windows Administrator audience on vital technologies and the latest IT trends. Industry veterans such as Don Jones, Greg Shields, and Jeffery Hicks offer their insights through new columns and technical how-to’s geared to help harried Windows Administrators solve everyday issues. This new eJournal will regularly cover IT topics with a Microsoft focus, such as Windows Server, Vista, PowerShell, and Exchange.  It will delve into in-demand technologies like virtualization, proactive systems management and monitoring, and specialized topics like remote application support, and systems security.  Windows Administrators will certainly learn a number of valuable tips and tricks along the way.

The Definitive Guide to Virtual Platform Management is designed to help IT staff better manage the complexity of virtualization.  The guide begins with a discussion of the business value of virtualization and how organizations can benefit from this technology. Desai then details virtualization approaches and the challenges related to managing heterogeneous environments. Methods in which IT organizations can address these challenges by monitoring and optimizing virtualization performance, developing policies and processes, and automating data center operations are given.  Finally, the guide develops a list of important features that IT organizations should look for in a virtualization management solution.

Complete eBook: The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL

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This eBook describes the techniques, best practices, administration/management tools and example scenarios for successful implementation of IT service support using ITIL.  Within this book Rebecca describes the problems IT faces today, what ITIL provides and the business value of ITIL.  She then describes in more detail how to make change management, incident management and problem management more effective through ITIL, along with describing how ITIL helps support compliance.  In the last chapter she provides a roadmap for successful ITIL implementation..

The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL, authored by Rebecca Herold, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/SGITIL.htm

Recently Announced Chapters

The Shortcut Guide to Selecting the Right Virtualization Solution
Chapter 2: Virtualization Software Options

The Shortcut Guide to Extended Validation SSL Certificates
Chapter 4: User Experience

The Shortcut Guide to PC Restoration and Disaster Recovery
Webinar: Best Practices for PC Restoration and Disaster Recovery

The Definitive Guide to Successful Deployment of VoIP and IP Telephony
Chapter 7: Optimization

The Shortcut Guide to SQL Server Infrastructure Optimization
Complete eBook

The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL
Chapter 5: A Roadmap for Successful ITIL implementation

The Definitive Guide to Virtual Platform Management
Chapter 10: Evaluating Virtualization Management Solutions

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