| Is Your Company Ready for Cloud Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:55 AM PDT 
Book Description "This book successfully addresses the approach for adopting cloud into organizations (small and large), realizing that every application may not be a fit for a cloud environment. The writer does an excellent job of integrating cloud into the approach for an enterprise architecture and drilling down into how to evaluate cloud in its variety of implementation techniques, along with the benefits and drawbacks of each."
— Sue Miller-Sylvia, IBM Fellow and Vice President, Application Innovation Services, IBM Global Business Services Make the Right Cloud Adoption and Deployment Decisions for Your Business This is the first complete guide to cloud decision making for senior executives in both technology and non-technology roles. IBM® Global Business Services® Executive Architect Pamela K. Isom and IBM Fellow Kerrie Holley present practical business cases, vignettes, and techniques to help you understand when cloud investments make sense and when they don't. You'll find decision models that are anchored with practical experiences and lessons to guide your decision making, best practices for leveraging investments you've already made, and expert assistance with every aspect of the cloud transition. Drawing on their extensive experience working with enterprise clients, Isom and Holley show how to integrate both business and technical considerations, set the right priorities, and successfully manage everything from security and performance to governance. Whatever your company's size, industry, or challenges, this book will help you drive maximum business value from the cloud—on your terms and on your timeline. Coverage includes - Assessing the business value of a cloud adoption strategy based on 10 specific expectations
- Gaining more value by incorporating cloud into enterprise architecture
- Implementing cloud when you don't already have an enterprise architecture
- Fully understanding the financial implications of cloud-based strategies and technologies
- Incorporating cloud in environments that have already adopted Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Selecting components of your cloud portfolio, including elements of larger outsourced or managed solutions
- Governing cloud as part of your overall organizational landscape
- Systematically recognizing and mitigating cloud adoption risks, including security, cost, and performance
- Planning the transition: retiring legacy applications, transforming business processes, and selecting partners
- Anticipating and guiding the use of cloud business patterns, trends, and technologies
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Business Value of a Cloud Adoption Strategy
Chapter 2. Business Value of Incorporating Cloud into Your EA
Chapter 3. The Life Cycle of Your Enterprise Cloud Adoption Strategy
Chapter 4. Identifying Cloud Candidates
Chapter 5. What About Governance?
Chapter 6. Mitigating Risk
Chapter 7. Planning the Transition
Chapter 8. Financial Considerations Appendix A. Augmenting Your Delivery Model with Cloud
Appendix B. Cloud Case Studies and Common Questions
Appendix C. More on Cloud Business Trends Book Details - Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: IBM Press (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0132599848
- ISBN-13: 978-0132599849
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| FranklinCovey Style Guide, 5th Edition Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:50 AM PDT 
Book Description FranklinCovey Style Guide: For Business and Technical Communication can help any writer produce documents that achieve outstanding results. Created by FranklinCovey, the world-renowned leader in helping organizations enhance individual effectiveness, this edition fully reflects today's online media and global business challenges. The only style guide used in FranklinCovey's own renowned Writing AdvantageTM and Technical Writing AdvantageTM programs, it covers everything from document design and graphics to sentence style and word choice. This edition's many improvements include extensive new coverage of graphics, writing for online media, and international business English. Through dozens of examples and model documents, writers learn how to overcome "writer's block" and efficiently create documents from start to finish. FranklinCovey's experts show how to get powerful results from every email; add distinctiveness and power to any online presence; write far more effective proposals, letters, memos, reports, and resumes; and improve all forms of documentation, from business procedures to highly technical content. You'll learn how to quickly discover and prioritize the information you need, whether you're planning a presentation, leading a meeting, or managing a project. The authors reveal how to design visuals that communicate messages instantly and intuitively, and use charts, color, illustrations, maps, photos, and tables to supercharge any presentation. Packed with up-to-the-minute examples, this A-Z guidebook can help you write more effectively no matter who you are — whether you're a business or sales professional who must motivate and persuade, a technical professional who must explain challenging content more clearly and accurately, or a student who needs stronger writing skills to succeed in school and in your career. From the Back Cover
Much more than a grammar and punctuation handbook, the renowned FranklinCovey Style GuideTM helps you: - Produce documents that reflect quality writing standards.
- Access more than 110 topics from A to Z, covering everything from document design, graphics, and parts of speech to punctuation, sentence style, and word choice.
- Create documents from start to finish and avoid writer's block.
- Write effective letters, memos, and resumés with the help of more than 30 model documents.
- Design effective, understandable graphics that enhance and convey your message.
- Discover and prioritize information.
FranklinCovey is a leading provider of leadership, personal productivity, and effective communication workshops. Two programs—Writing Advantage™ and Technical Writing Advantage™—help you learn how to write documents that achieve the results you expect. Both workshops feature the FranklinCovey Style Guide. NEW IN THE FIFTH EDITION
The most current guidelines on email, information management, and online documentation. Learn how to manage the flood of email coming at you and get results from the email you send. Find out how to add distinctiveness and power to your online presence. Updated best practices for graphics. Here's the best current thinking on visuals for documents and presentation, charts, color, illustrations, maps, photos, and tables, including all-new examples. Guidance on global English.There is a new section on English as a second language for business professionals, as well as updated guidance on international business English. Valuable new insights for knowledge workers.Learn new ways to think and process information better in updated sections on thinking strategies and the writing process, as well as practical guidance for managing projects and meetings. Model documents for today. As email has overtaken traditional business letters and memos, you need new models to follow. See the Model Documents section for updated samples of sensitive emails, reports, proposals, procedures, and resumés. Everything in this fifth edition has been updated to help you meet the communication challenges of the high-tech, high-demand business world of today. Book Details - Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: FT Press; 5th Edition (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0133090396
- ISBN-13: 978-0133090390
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| Profiting with Synthetic Annuities Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:46 AM PDT 
Book Description The "synthetic annuity" is an options-based strategy that trades off large gains in exchange for higher yields and better downside protection, and utilizes risk more efficiently than pure stock-based portfolios. In Profiting with Synthetic Annuities, this strategy's creator shows exactly how to use it to support a wide range of trading and investing goals. Hedge fund manager and investment strategist Michael Lovelady shows how synthetic annuities blend the best features of traditional portfolios with the risk management discipline of quantitative investing, increasing current yields while also reducing volatility. Lovelady explains this new strategy with "time-lapse" images and simplified models that any investor can understand and apply, and demonstrates its value in the context of today's key market trends. Lovelady explains the entire "ecosystem" surrounding synthetic annuities: theory, product, and tools. Instead of focusing on the standalone use of options, he shows how to integrate them into traditional investment management, including mean-variance portfolios. This book demonstrates how synthetic annuities can help cautious investors reduce volatility and increase returns; improve risk management for value investors and their advisors; help experienced options traders leverage market exposure or yield; and enhance flexibility for institutions with strict prudence requirements. Along the way, he offers deep and intuitive insights into options that will be valuable to any trader or student of finance. From the Back Cover
"For years, academics and investors have been aware of the limitations of so-called Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT). Absent an obvious alternative, many continue to apply MPT, presumably unaware of a superior alternative. In an ambitious effort, Michael Lovelady demonstrates a better way to minimize downside portfolio risk while achieving higher risk-adjusted yields. Lovelady does not dismiss MPT but blends it with quantitative investing to fill the void between theory and reality through his skillful development of synthetic annuity strategies. While there are no panaceas in life, synthetic annuities seem to offer a significant improvement over conventional wisdom."
–Donald M. DePamphilis, Ph.D, Clinical Professor of Finance, Loyola Marymount University; and author of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities, Sixth Edition "The author brings together the best of both the options and stock worlds in this very practical book. Smarter than most hedge funds, he spells out specific strategies and how to deal with inevitable problems. Unlike most fluff trading books, you'll know what you are doing and why you are doing it. By the time you are done, you will definitely reevaluate the strategy behind your own portfolio. What more can you ask for in any book?"
–Michael Benklifa, author of Profiting with Iron Condor Options, President of Othello Consulting "Michael Lovelady explains a range of options strategies in a concise and clear manner to help you rethink your approach to risk and timing, and to the overall market as well. Michael shows why options should not be relegated to trading accounts, or the 5% to 10% normally allocated to alternative investments, but have an important role to play across all aspects of the portfolio. A creative new take on investing presented in a series of visuals accessible to anyone interested in new ideas: Excellent!"
–Michael C. Thomsett, author of Options Trading for the Conservative Investor Options-based "synthetic annuities" give investors the ability to generate higher returns, provide better downside protection, and utilize risk more efficiently than pure stock and bond-based portfolios. Now, this strategy's creator shows exactly how to use them to support a wide range of trading and investing goals. Hedge fund manager Michael Lovelady shows how synthetic annuities blend the best features of traditional portfolios with the risk management discipline of quantitative investing, increasing current yields while also reducing volatility. Michael presents this new strategy with unique graphics and simplified models that any investor or trader can use, and demonstrates its value in the context of today's key market trends. He illuminates the entire "ecosystem" of theories, products, and tools surrounding synthetic annuities, and shows exactly how to integrate them with other investment and portfolio management techniques. If you're a conservative investor…
…this book will help you reduce volatility and increase returns If you're an aggressive investor…
…it will help you structure positions with targeted yield and risk If you're responsible for portfolio policy decisions…
…it will help you navigate the gap between traditional and emerging strategies If you're an experienced options trader…
…it will help you think beyond named strategies to goal-based structures If you trade accounts with strict prudence requirements…
…it will give you new flexibility without compromising safety Whoever you are…
…you'll learn powerful, new ways to think about and profit from options! Book Details - Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: FT Press (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0132929112
- ISBN-13: 978-0132929110
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| Technical Analysis of Gaps Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:44 AM PDT 
Book Description Gaps have attracted the attention of market technicians from the earliest days of charting. They're not merely conspicuous: they represent price jumps that could signal profitable trading opportunities. Until now, however, “folklore” about gap trading has been common, and tested, research-based knowledge virtually nonexistent.In Technical Analysis of Gaps, renowned technical analysis researchers Julie Dahlquist and Richard Bauer change all that. Drawing on 60 years of comprehensive data, they demonstrate how to sort “strategic” gaps from trivial ones, and successfully trade on gaps identified as significant. Building on work that recently earned them the Market Technicians Association's 2011 Charles H. Dow Award for creativity and innovation in technical analysis, Dahlquist and Bauer offer specific gap-related trading tips for stocks, futures, and options. They consider a wide variety of market conditions, including gap size, volume and previous price movement, illuminating their findings with easy-to-understand diagrams. Coverage includes: understanding what gaps are and how they arise; recognizing windows on candlestick charts; identifying gaps with superior profit potential; combining gaps with other technical techniques for a more complete and effective analysis; and putting it all together with real trading strategies. For stock, commodity, and currency traders in the U.S. and worldwide, and for active individual investors seeking new ways to maximize returns. From the Back Cover
"Finally! We now have a book that deals exclusively with price gaps. Read how to identify them, trade them, and measure their returns. The authors challenge conventional wisdom regarding the usefulness of gaps on heavy or light volume. Find out if days that contain a high number of gapping stocks will offer clues to the market's overall direction. I thank Julie and Richard for addressing my forty-five-year-old curiosity: What does it mean when prices gap above or below moving averages?"
—Ralph J. Acampora, CMT, Director, Technical Analysis, Altaira Limited "Technical and quantitative market analysts who use or are considering using price gaps either in discretionary or systematic trading strategies will want to study, not just read, Technical Analysis of Gaps: Identifying Profitable Gaps for Trading by professors Julie Dahlquist and Richard Bauer. It adds momentum to the trend of rigorous evidence-based literature. Traders will learn which gaps contain the best profit potential and which contain none. It made me realize how little I knew about this important area of technical analysis."
—David Aronson, CMT, President, Hood River Research, and author of Evidence-Based Technical Analysis "Technical Analysis of Gaps summarizes the authors' comprehensive research on stock price gaps. In it, they describe surprising results in gap behavior that dispel many Wall Street myths. They show practical methods for taking advantage of gaps and profiting from their appearance. This book is a classic. In my opinion, it is the final, complete treatise on the subject of stock market gaps."
—Charles D. Kirkpatrick II, CMT, Kirkpatrick & Company, Inc., and coauthor of Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource for Financial Market Technicians The First Complete, Research-Based Guide to Profitable Gap Trading Gaps represent price jumps that could signal profitable technical trading opportunities. Until now, however, "folklore" about gap trading has been common, but tested research-based knowledge has been virtually nonexistent. In Technical Analysis of Gaps, renowned technical analysis researchers Julie Dahlquist and Richard Bauer change all that. Drawing on 17 years of comprehensive data, they show how to identify "strategic" gaps with high profit potential to trade more successfully. Building on work that recently earned them the prestigious Charles H. Dow Award for creativity and innovation in technical analysis, Dahlquist and Bauer present specific techniques for analyzing gaps. They address issues such as gap size, volume, and previous price movement; illuminate key findings with easy-to-understand diagrams; and integrate their insights into practical, actionable trading strategies. - Visualize gaps with candlestick charts
Uncover surprising gap patterns and trading Opportunities - Measure the profitability of gap-based trades
Gain objective information to assess and select gap trades - Understand subtle relationships between gaps and price movements
Use both short-term information and longer-term moving averages - Put it all together in profitable trades
Translate gap research into successful strategies Book Details - Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: FT Press (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0132900432
- ISBN-13: 978-0132900430
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| The Economics of Cloud Computing Posted: 29 Aug 2012 04:22 AM PDT 
Book Description The decision-maker's guide to cloud computing: from making the case to managing the transition This concise book delivers the insight and tools you need to make intelligent decisions about cloud computing and effectively manage the transition to this new paradigm. Bill Williams explains how cloud computing platforms are transforming business IT and helps you fully understand the economies of scale and other benefits associated with "the cloud." Williams defines and explains cloud computing platforms and technologies, analyzes the costs associated with the IT supply chain, and (using industry standard metrics) creates a process for measuring the value of implementing cloud service models. He presents realistic and up-to-date ROI and NPV calculations comparing cloud strategies with conventional investments in owned/leased hardware. Through additional examples, he addresses costs and savings related to software licensing and disaster recovery/high availability, offering even deeper practical insight into the financial impact of cloud computing. Writing for business leaders and "in-the-trenches" managers, Williams outlines the impact of cloud computing on the IT supply chain by contrasting legacy processes and systems with cloud computing implementations. To simplify deployment, Williams presents easy-to-use tables, a decision-maker checklist, and a comprehensive collection of additional resources for further study.
- Understand today's leading cloud service and deployment models
- Identify the major characteristics of cloud computing platforms
- Use key performance/success indicators to measure IT performance and influence business strategies
- Quantify the baseline costs of your current IT value chain
- Use TCO, the payback method, ROI, NPV, and other metrics to justify cloud deployments
- Calculate the total financial impact of migrating to "the cloud"
- Place cloud computing in the historical context of technological revolutions
- Recognize the long-term social and global benefits of cheap and ubiquitous computing
This volume is in the Network Business Series offered by Cisco Press®. Books in this series provide IT executives, decision makers, and networking professionals with pertinent information about today's most important technologies and business strategies. Book Details - Paperback: 150 pages
- Publisher: Cisco Press (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1587143062
- ISBN-13: 978-1587143069
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| CCNP Security VPN 642-648 Official Cert Guide, 2nd Edition Posted: 29 Aug 2012 04:18 AM PDT 
Book Description The official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNP Security VPN exam, including Configuring policies, inheritance, and attributes - AnyConnect Remote Access VPN solutions
- AAA and Dynamic Access Policies (DAP)
- High availability and performance
- Clientless VPN solutions
- SSL VPN with Cisco Secure Desktop
- Easy VPN solutions
- IPsec VPN clients and site-to-site VPNs
This volume is part of the Official Cert Guide Series from Cisco Press. Books in this series provide officially developed exam preparation materials that offer assessment, review, and practice to help Cisco Career Certification candidates identify weaknesses, concentrate their study efforts, and enhance their confidence as exam day nears. CCNP Security VPN 642-648 Official Cert Guide is a best of breed Cisco exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNP Security VPN exam. Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Howard Hooper shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics. CCNP Security VPN 642-648 Official Cert Guide presents you with an organized test-preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. "Do I Know This Already?" quizzes open each chapter and enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly. The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful testing engine that enables you to focus on individual topic areas or take a complete, timed exam. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most. Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time. CCNP Security VPN 642-648 Official Cert Guide is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining. Book Details - Hardcover: 832 pages
- Publisher: Cisco Press; 2nd Edition (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1587204479
- ISBN-13: 978-1587204470
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| CCNP Wireless (642-747 IUWMS) Quick Reference, 2nd Edition Posted: 29 Aug 2012 04:14 AM PDT 
Book Description As a final exam preparation tool, the CCNP Wireless (642-747 IUWMS) Quick Reference provides a concise review of all objectives on the new exams. The short eBook provides readers with detailed, graphical-based information, highlighting only the key topics in cram-style format. With this document as your guide, you will review topics on concepts and commands that apply to this exam. This fact-filled Quick Reference allows you to get all-important information at a glance, helping you focus your study on areas of weakness and enhancing your memory retention of essential exam concepts. The IUWMS Implementing Cisco Unified Wireless Mobility Services exam is an exam associated with the CCNP Wireless certification. This exam assesses a candidate’s capability to integrate mobility services into the WLAN, to tune and troubleshoot the WLAN, and to implement indoor enterprise mesh networks. Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Implement Context-Aware Services
Chapter 2. Implement Mobility Services Engine Architecture
Chapter 3. Implement Advanced Services and Manage with WCS and Navigator
Chapter 4. Design WLAN Infrastructure for Mobility
Chapter 5. Implement and Manage Indoor and Outdoor Mesh
Chapter 6. Advanced Troubleshooting Book Details - Hardcover: 101 pages
- Publisher: Cisco Press; 2nd Edition (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1587143097
- ISBN-13: 978-1587143090
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| CCNP Wireless (642-737 IAUWS) Quick Reference Posted: 29 Aug 2012 04:11 AM PDT 
Book Description As a final exam preparation tool, the CCNP Wireless (642-737 IAUWS) Quick Reference provides a concise review of all objectives on the new exams. The short eBook provides readers with detailed, graphical-based information, highlighting only the key topics in cram-style format. With this document as your guide, you will review topics on concepts and commands that apply to this exam. This fact-filled Quick Reference allows you to get all-important information at a glance, helping you focus your study on areas of weakness and enhancing your memory retention of essential exam concepts. The Implementing Advanced Cisco Unified Wireless Security exam is the exam associated with the CCNP Wireless certification. This exam assesses a candidate’s capability to secure the wireless network from security threats via appropriate security policies and best practices, to properly implement security standards, and to properly configure wireless security components. Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Regulatory and Organizational Security Compliance
Chapter 2. Secure Client Devices
Chapter 3. Design and Implement Guest Access Services
Chapter 4. Design and Integrate a Wireless Network with Cisco NAC Appliance Server
Chapter 5. Internal and Integrated External Security Mitigations Book Details - Hardcover: 111 pages
- Publisher: Cisco Press (June 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1587143127
- ISBN-13: 978-1587143120
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