Author: James Persse
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Keywords: sigma, iso, six, cmmi, improvement, essentials, process
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2006-09-14
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 0596102178
ISBN-13: 9780596102173

Today, technology has become too much a part of overall corporate success for its effectiveness to be left to chance. The stakes are too high. Fortunately, the idea of ’quality management’ is being reinvigorated. In the last decade process programs have become more and more prevalent. And, out of all the available options, three have moved to the top of the chain. These three are: The 9001:2000 Quality Management Standard from the International Standards Organization; The Capability Maturity Model Integration from the Software Engineering Institute; and Six Sigma, a methodo

Authors:Ryan Troy, Matthew Helmke,
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Keywords: vmware, effective, guide, real, cookbook, world
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0596157258
ISBN-13: 9780596157258

If you want to gain insight into the real-world uses of VMware ESX and ESXi, this book provides scores of step-by-step solutions for working with these products in a wide range of network environments. You’ll not only learn the basics -- how to pool resources from hardware servers, computer clusters, networks, and storage, and then distribute them among virtual machines -- but also the stumbling blocks you’ll encounter when you monitor systems, troubleshoot problems, and deal with security. In addition to the recipes, VMware Cookbook includes background information to help you det

Authors:Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman, Robert G. B
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Keywords: guide, definitive, shell, secure, ssh
Number of Pages: 666
Published: 2005-05-10
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0596008953
ISBN-13: 9780596008956

Are you serious about network security? Then check out SSH, the Secure Shell, which provides key-based authentication and transparent encryption for your network connections. It’s reliable, robust, and reasonably easy to use, and both free and commercial implementations are widely available for most operating systems. While it doesn’t solve every privacy and security problem, SSH eliminates several of them very effectively. Everything you want to know about SSH is in our second edition of "SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide," This updated book thoroughly covers the latest

Author: Craig Hunt
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Keywords: cookbook, sendmail
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0596004710
ISBN-13: 9780596004712

More often than not, the words "sendmail configuration" strike dread in the hearts of sendmail and system administrators--and not without reason. sendmail configuration languages are as complex as any other programming languages, but used much more infrequently--only when sendmail is installed or configured. The average system administrator doesn’t get enough practice to truly master this inscrutable technology. Fortunately, there’s help. The sendmail Cookbook provides step-by-step solutions for the administrator who needs to solve configuration problems fast. Say you need to c

Author: David Bourg
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Keywords: cookbooks, reilly, cookbook, engineering, scientific, excel
Number of Pages: 442
Published: 2006-01-17
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 0596008791
ISBN-13: 9780596008796

Given the improved analytical capabilities of Excel, scientists and engineers everywhere are using it--instead of FORTRAN--to solve problems. And why not? Excel is installed on millions of computers, features a rich set of built-in analyses tools, and includes an integrated Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language. No wonder it’s today’s computing tool of choice. Chances are you already use Excel to perform some fairly routine calculations. Now the Excel Scientific and Engineering Cookbook shows you how to leverage Excel to perform more complex calculations, t

Author: Nicolai M. Josuttis
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Keywords: practice, design, theory, system, distributed, art, soa
Number of Pages: 342
Published: 2007-08-24
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0596529554
ISBN-13: 9780596529550

This book demonstrates service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a concrete discipline rather than a hopeful collection of cloud charts. Built upon the author’s firsthand experience rolling out a SOA at a major corporation, SOA in Practice explains how SOA can simplify the creation and maintenance of large-scale applications. Whether your project involves a large set of Web Services-based components, or connects legacy applications to modern business processes, this book clarifies how -- and whether -- SOA fits your needs. SOA has been a vision for years. This book brings it down to earth b

Author: Jeff Webb
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Keywords: collaboration, action, document, office, sharepoint, microsoft, essential
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2005-05-17
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0596008805
ISBN-13: 9780596008802

Want to work more efficiently and effectively? Want to improve productivity? Microsoft is betting that you do. That’s why it created Windows SharePoint Services--a set of collaboration tools that helps organizations increase individual and team productivity by enabling them to create web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Through these team-oriented web sites, users capture and share ideas, and work together on documents, tasks, contacts, etc.--either among themselves or with partners and customers. And if you have Windows 2003 Server, then you already hav