Issue #81
July 2007

: : New Chapter:
Virtualization Management Challenges

: : New Chapter:
Network Troubleshooting and Diagnostics

: : New Chapter: Kernel Image Management

: : New Chapter: Effective Security Management

: : New Podcast: Voice Over Packet Design and Pre-Deployment Testing

: : New Volume: The Tips and Tricks Guide to Creating Business Continuity through Enterprise Storage Solutions

: : New Article: Integrating Security Functions: What Makes Sense?

: : Complete eBook: The Definitive Guide® to Service-Oriented Systems Management

: : Recently Announced Chapters

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New Chapter: Virtualization Management Challenges

Download the lastest chapter from The Definitive Guide® to Virtual Platform Management!

Although virtualization technology can provide many significant advantages to IT environments, the use of virtual machines is not without potential drawbacks. Many IT organizations have come to the realization that initial purchase costs of hardware and software represent only a relatively small portion of overall expenditures. Additional factors that contribute to the bottom line include expenses related to administration, maintenance, and monitoring.

Chapter 4: Virtualization Management Challenges, written by Anil Desai, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/DGVPM.htm

New Chapter: Network Troubleshooting and Diagnostics

Download the newest chapter from The Shortcut Guide™ to Network Management for the Mid-Market!

Once you know the root cause of a network problem, the resolution is usually a Google search away. But finding that root cause can consume the vast majority of the time involved with fixing the problem. It is this process of network troubleshooting where network administrators truly earn our keep. The ability to quickly and efficiently perform troubleshooting when a problem occurs separates the veteran administrators from the green ones. No matter what your experience level with troubleshooting, maintaining a good tool suite along with a good technique is critically important. This last chapter will dig into both to help you become a better troubleshooter.

Chapter 4: Network Troubleshooting and Diagnostics, written by Greg Shields, is available at:
http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/SGNMM.htm

New Chapter: Kernel Image Management

Download the newest chapter from The Definitive Guide® to Vista Migration !

System imaging is the key to the entire OS migration project. It is the most important aspect of this project as it outlays the foundation of your future network. Building a system and then capturing it for reproduction must be done carefully and with great precision. These activities are the focus of Chapter 7, with an emphasis on creating a system image which will support both application virtualization and standard software installations though you should aim to move to application virtualization since it provides a completely new way of managing applications and maintaining stability within deployed PCs. Virtualization protects the OS at all times and provides significant cost reductions for managed systems.

Chapter 7: Kernel Image Management, written by Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/DGVM.htm

New Volume: The Tips and Tricks Guide to Creating Business Continuity through Enterprise Storage Solutions

Download the newest volume!

Years of market competition and decreasing storage costs have resulted in many disparate and difficult to manage storage environments. Add to these environments the demands of international regulatory compliance, the business need for information management and the ever-present security concerns of maintaining a production storage environment and management can become quickly overwhelmed. It's at this point that disaster most often strikes.

Volume 6: The Tips and Tricks Guide™ to Creating Business Continuity through Enterprise Storage Solutions, written by Chad Marshall, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/TTGCBCESS.htm

Recently Announced Chapters

New Chapter: The Shortcut Guide™ to Managing Disk Fragmentation
Chapter 2: Issues with Disk Fragmentation

New Volume: The Shortcut Guide™ to Exchange Server 2007 Storage Systems
Chapter 3: Implementing an iSCSI Storage System

New Chapter: The Definitive Guide® to Successful Deployment of VoIP and IP Telephony
Chapter 4: Design and Pre-Deployment Testing

New Chapter: The Definitive Guide® to Converged Network Management
Chapter 8: Effective Network Configuration, Network Fault, and Network Performance Management

New Article: The Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security Volume II
Article 11: Multiple Layers of Database Security

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