Realtime Reader November 2008: Issue 110

New eBook: The Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and Service Automation

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The Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and Service Automation will assist the smart enterprise with understanding virtualization’s fit into the rest of the IT environment. A major part of that fit is in aligning the promise of virtualization technology with the automation benefits associated with virtualization management. What you’ll find in reading this guide is that notwithstanding what technologies and technological improvements virtualization brings to the table, there are a set of management enhancements that also arrive. Those enhancements are a function of the levels of automation that naturally bundles with the move to virtualization.

Chapter 1: Virtualization and Service Management, written by Greg Shields, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/SGVSA.htm

New Chapter: IT Workload Automation and Job Scheduling

Download the newest chapter from The Shortcut Guide to IT Workload Automation and Job Scheduling!

When changes occur in enterprise infrastructure, it can be difficult to keep the scheduled jobs running. In addition, it can be hard to monitor the systems and find where the best place to run a job task is hiding within the enterprise. A system that helps visualize and plan individual job tasks as part of a single unit can help Operations see the interrelation of tasks—even when those tasks execute in different locations on different servers. It can help find the optimal order in which tasks should run to satisfy all the needs of the organization.

Chapter 2: IT Workload Automation and Job Scheduling, written by Mark Scott, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/SGITWAJS.htm

New Series: Enterprise Identity and Access Management

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The Essentials Series: Enterprise Identity and Access Management starts by looking at identity and how you prove who you are. Once authenticated, you can be authorized to access the corporate data. There are a number of administration challenges in this field especially when multiple identity and access management systems are in use. The series premise is that consolidation on to a single system - namely Active Directory - can resolve these issues and provide a simplified system that is less expensive and more secure. The series closes with a look at the compliance issues surrounding Identity and Access Management and how these issues can be addressed by standardizing and consolidating on to Active Directory.

Articles include:
Article #1: Authentication
Article #2: Authorization
Article #3: Administration Challenges
Article #4: Compliance

The Essentials Series: Enterprise Identity and Access Management, authored by Richard Siddaway, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/ESEIAM.htm

New Series: Virtual Security Concerns & Solutions

The Essentials Series: Virtual Security Concerns & Solutions

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Implementing virtualization within the enterprise grows easier with each new version of the virtualization products available on the market. But in implementing virtualization itself, the enterprise adds a set of security risks that are not immediately obvious. Residing virtual machines atop a singular hypervisor puts every virtual egg in a single basket. Virtual machines that experience extended periods of outage may not receive the configuration updates they need to keep them safe. Virtual networks may not provide the level of functionality required by enterprise organizations. All these are topics discussed in this series along with suggestions for solutions that work alongside virtualization platforms to combat these security issues.

Articles include:
Article #1: Understanding and Improving Hypervisor Security
Article #2: Understanding and Improving Virtual Machine Security
Article #3: Understanding and Improving Virtual Network Security

The Essentials Series: Virtual Security Concerns & Solutions, authored by Greg Shields, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/ESVSCS.htm

Exclusive Podcast: The State of Unified Communications in Business

Listen to this exclusive podcast interview from UC expert Ken Camp and IBM's Alan Honor!

In this podcast, Ken Camp speaks to Alan Honor, Business Development Executive for Business Systems in the Systems and Technology group at IBM, about his perspective on what the term unified communications means and how unified communications and collaboration tools can help companies grow their business. Alan also addresses differentiators that clearly distinguish IBM from other industry solution providers. Alan addresses these issues from the perspectives of the software, hardware and services teams within IBM.

Listen to this exclusive podcast with Alan Honor and Ken Camp at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/RPUCB.htm

New Chapter: Windows Failover Clustering

Download the newest chapter from The Definitive Guide to Building a Windows Server 2008 Infrastructure!

The dream of every IT administrator is an environment of servers and services that never go down. Although the “never” in that dream is likely to remain just a dream for a long time to come, there are technologies available today that can bring it a little closer to realization. One of those technologies is Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC), available with Windows Server 2008. Although WSFC isn’t new to Windows, the updates it sees with the upgrade to Microsoft’s newest server operating system (OS) makes it a technology that is now eminently useable by a wide range of IT organizations.

Chapter 10: Windows Failover Clustering, authored by Greg Shields, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/DGBWS2K8I.htm

New Chapter: Challenges and Best Practices for WAN Optimization

Download the newest chapter from The Shortcut Guide to Optimized WAN Application Delivery!

WAN acceleration is a key enabler of strategic IT initiatives and enterprise goals. WAN connections and delivery may be established using dedicated leased lines or cloud services that are owned and operated by providers and shared by multiple subscribers. Furthermore, the diversity among protocols, platforms, and performance rates adds layers of complexity to traffic optimization for network engineers and infrastructure implementers. WAN protocols utilized today include ISDN, Frame Relay, ATM, and PPP over SONET. Harmonizing and orchestrating optimal performance among this heterogeny comprises a series of deeply complex tasks.

Chapter 4: Challenges and Best Practices for WAN Optimization, written by Ed Tittel, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/SGOWAD.htm

Series Spotlight: Mid-Market Storage Management and Virtualization

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The Essentials Series: Mid-Market Storage Management and Virtualization examines the business value of data as well as strategies for optimizing its storage and management. Topics range from the cost of losing business data and the advantages of various backup models to improving storage management operations and optimizing performance with storage virtualization. This Essential Series spans both the technical and business issues of storage management to give the reader a full perspective of the challenges and benefits of effective storage management.

Articles include:
Article #1: Protecting Business Data
Article #2: Improving Efficiency and Management with Storage Virtualization
Article #3: Optimizing Storage Performance

The Essentials Series: Mid-Market Storage Management and Virtualization, authored by Dan Sullivan, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/ESMMSMV.htm

Series Spotlight: The Business Imperatives of Compliance in the UK

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The Essentials Series: Business Imperatives of Compliance in the UK examines the compliance requirements that affect practically every type of business in the UK and have changed the way organizations manage information risks. This new series, intended for information security and compliance managers, explores the underlying premise of regulatory compliance and how it can be managed through the effective use of policies and procedures in day-to-day business. Anyone playing a part in compliance in UK-based organizations will benefit from the practical solutions and suggestions outlined in the material.

Articles include:
Article #1: Managing Compliance in the Healthcare Industry
Article #2: Managing Financial Compliance
Article #3: Managing Compliance in Business Today

The Essentials Series: The Business Imperatives of Compliance in the UK, authored by Kevin Beaver, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/ESBIC.htm

Unified Communications in Realtime #8

Download the latest issue of Unifed Communications in Realtime!

In the eigth issue of Unified Communications in Realtime, Ken Camp visits the topic of SMB organizations. Articles in this issue include:

• Voice Services for the SMB
• Solutions for Mobility
• Integration with Business Processes

The latest issue of Unifed Communications in Realtime, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/RTUC.htm

Recently Announced Chapters

The Definitive Guide to Quality Application Delivery
Chapter 1: Introduction to Quality Application Delivery

The Essentials Series: Managing Access to Privileged Accounts
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The Essentials Series: Email-Centric Data Loss Prevention
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