Realtime Reader October 2007: Issue 87

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New Chapter: The Alignment of IT and Business

Download the newest chapter from The Definitive Guide to Business Service Management!

This chapter will discuss the alignment issue as well as common failures in alignment. We'll talk about why misalignment occurs and what IT can do to develop itself both culturally and technologically to resolve the problem. Throughout the discussion, we'll incorporate what we've learned so far from Chapter 1 to show how the implementation of BSM into the operating environment helps enable the alignment of IT and the business.

Chapter 2: The Alignment of IT and Business, written by Greg Shields, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/DGBSM.htm

New Chapter: Optimizing your SQL Server Infrastructure: Good Ideas, Bad Ideas

Download the newest article from The Shortcut Guide to SQL Server Infrastructure Optimization!

This chapter looks a bit harder at why sprawl occurs, from a SQL Server technical viewpoint, and explores some of the ways the industry has tried to solve the problem. Remember that the ultimate goal is to create an infrastructure that's dynamic according to the Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization Model (IOM)-capable of changing smoothly and quickly to meet business needs, and in fact designed to accommodate rapid changes.

Chapter 2: Optimizing your SQL Server Infrastructure: Good Ideas, Bad Ideas, written by Don Jones, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/SGSSIO.htm

New Article: Evolving Social Engineering Elements of Phishing

Download the newest article from The Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security!

Phishing is a well-known and established fact of life for just about anyone with an email account. Phishers have been trying to lure us with scare tactics, like messages that our bank accounts may have been compromised, with appeals to greed, have you collected your millions from the Nigerian account holding your share?, and just about any other way the phishers can come up with to trick us. But we are getting better at recognizing these well-worn scams. Not to be outdone, phishers are changing their tactics. A key to the change is crafting new and more subtle social engineering techniques...

Article 19: Evolving Social Engineering Elements of Phishing, written by Dan Sullivan, is available at: http://www.realtime-websecurity.com/ESMWSv2.asp

New Chapter: Optimizing Virtualization Performance

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

The primary goal for most IT departments is to wring every last bit of available performance out of their existing investments. Clearly, this is one of the reasons that virtualization is such an easy decision. By combining workloads onto physical servers that are typically under-utilized, organizations can get instant benefits without large hardware-related expenditures. Some might be happy with the gains that they've realized. But idealistic IT managers will want to know: How can we further improve performance? That's the subject of Chapter 7...

Chapter 7: Optimizing Virtualization Performance by Anil Desai, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/DGVPM.htm

Complete eBook: The Definitive Guide to Vista Migration

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The Definitive Guide to Vista Migration provides a detailed roadmap to Vista migrations in order to take full advantage of the new enterprise-ready Vista feature set. This guide outlines best practices for migration planning and execution as well as piloting a migration for enterprises of all sizes. This book will help all levels of IT professional, from systems administrators to IT directors, who are considering Vista migration and want to see it done right.

Complete eBook: The Definitive Guide to Vista Migration, written by Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/DGVM.htm

Realtime Resource: How to Effectively Delegate Administrative Privileges

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This paper discusses why organizations should consider moving to a delegated administration model. This model can aid companies in improving administrative productivity, system availability, and security, and satisfy the demands of auditors. The paper then discusses the challenges and risks that organizations might face when using various approaches to delegating administrative capabilities.

New White Paper: How to Effectively Delegate Administrative Privileges, is available at: http://www.netiq.com/f/form/form.asp?id=3167

Recently Announced Chapters

The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL
Chapter 2: Effective Change Management through ITIL

The Shortcut Guide to PC Restoration and Disaster Recovery
Chapter 2: PC Hardware Life Cycle

The Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security
Article 18: Web Developers Guide to Avoiding Cross Site Scripting Attacks

The Definitive Guide to Successful Deployment of VoIP and IP Telephony
Chapter 5: Implementation and Migration

The Definitive Guide to Vista Migration
Chapter 10: Running the Pilot Project

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