Issue #83
August 2007

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The Shortcut Guide™ to PC Restoration and Disaster Recovery

: : New Article:
10 Tips for Securing MySQL Database

: : New Chapter:
Working with Personality Captures

: : New Chapter: Asset Reporting, Audit Compliance and IT Documentation

: : New Chapter: Basic practices for implementing iSCSI storage

: : New Chapter: Managing Heterogeneous Virtual Environments

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

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New eBook: The Shortcut Guide™ to PC Restoration and Disaster Recovery

Download the first chapter!

This first chapter dissects the PC by examining it from different viewpoints to determine what it contains and what should be protected and preserved. This helps determine the requirements for a PC restoration and disaster recovery plan.

Chapter 1: Anatomy of a PC Desktop, written by Mark Scott, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/SGPCRDR.htm

New Chapter: Working with Personality Captures

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

Preserving the personal computing environment of each user is a critical step in mitigating the productivity impact of an OS migration and controlling its costs. As with the other engineering processes that are required to complete an OS migration project, this process includes several steps. These steps form the basis of this chapter. Once again, they are mostly performed by the PC team with support from the server team if network protection and backup has been included in the protection policy.

Chapter 8: Working with Personality Captures, written by Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/DGVM.htm

New Chapter: Basic practices for implementing iSCSI storage

Download the newest chapter from The Shortcut Guide™ to Exchange Server 2007 Storage Systems!

This chapter will cover some of the ways you can avoid common mistakes that new system administrators make when they implement an iSCSI SAN as well as best practices you can follow to ensure that you avoid problems and run your iSCSI SAN system as efficiently as possible. Topics in this chapter include: 1) iSCSI volume (LUN) management, 2) Operations and performance monitoring of iSCSI volumes, 3) Ways to improve performance and storage availability, and 4) Backup recommendations.

Chapter 4: Basic Practices for Implementing iSCSI Storage, written by Jim McBee, is available at:
http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/SGES2K7SS.htm

New Chapter: Managing Heterogeneous Virtual Environments

Download this newest chapter from The Definitive Guide® to Virtual Platform Management!

The focus of Chapter 5 is on identifying the various types of systems-both physical and virtual-that are often found in enterprise IT environments. We'll start with details about the various platform options that are currently available. Details will include the general benefits and drawbacks of each type of system. We'll then use this information in identifying common environment management issues. And finally we'll look at several best practices for managing heterogeneous environments.

Chapter 5: Managing Heterogeneous Virtual Environments, written by Anil Desai, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/DGVPM.htm

New Volume: Aligning Storage to Serve Business

Download the newest volume of The Tips and Tricks Guide to Creating Business Continuity through Enterprise Storage Solutions!

The Tips and Tricks Guide to Creating Business Continuity through Enterprise Storage Solutions leverages years of industry storage experience and IT service delivery management to deliver a consolidated guide focused on maintaining the security, availability, cost and information management of complex enterprise storage environments. Whether you're a storage practitioner looking to broaden an understanding of business continuity, security and compliance best practices, or a seasoned CIO examining ways to consolidate an ever increasing storage infrastructure, this guide has the answers you've been looking for.

Volume 7: of 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 eBook: The Shortcut Guide™ to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL
Chapter 1: Challenges with ITIL Implementation

New Article: Elements of Effective Event Log Monitoring
Article 14: The Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security Volume II

New Chapter: The Definitive Guide® to Converged Network Management
Chapter 9: Effective Security Management

Complete eBook: The Shortcut Guide™ to Network Management for the Mid-Market
Complete eBook: The Shortcut Guide™ to Network Management for the Mid-Market

Realtime Resource: Upgrading to Windows Vista
White Paper: Upgrading to Windows Vista

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