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Wow! eBook: VMware vSphere Design, 2nd Edition - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: VMware vSphere Design, 2nd Edition - 5 new eBooks

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VMware vSphere Design, 2nd Edition

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 05:07 AM PDT

Book Description

Achieve the performance, scalability, and ROI your business needs

What can you do at the start of a virtualization deployment to make things run more smoothly? If you plan, deploy, maintain, and optimize vSphere solutions in your company, this unique book provides keen insight and solutions. From hardware selection, network layout, and security considerations to storage and hypervisors, this book explains the design decisions you’ll face and how to make the right choices.

Written by two virtualization experts and packed with real-world strategies and examples, VMware vSphere Design, Second Edition will help you design smart design decisions.

  • Shows IT administrators how plan, deploy, maintain, and optimize vSphere virtualization solutions
  • Explains the design decisions typically encountered at every step in the process and how to make the right choices
  • Covers server hardware selection, network topology, security, storage, virtual machine design, and more
  • Topics include ESXi hypervisors deployment, vSwitches versus dvSwitches, and FC, FCoE, iSCSI, or NFS storage

Find out the “why” behind virtualization design decisions and make better choices, with VMware vSphere Design, Second Edition, which has been fully updated for vSphere 5.x.

From the Back Cover
What You Need to Make the Right Design Decisions

vSphere is the most robust and sophisticated hypervisor product available today. It is the de facto standard for businesses, both large and small. This book—written for engineers and architects who plan, install, maintain, and optimize vSphere solutions—is the only one of its kind to concisely explain how to execute a successful vSphere architecture that’s tailored to meet your company’s needs. Expert authors share with you the factors that shape the design of a vSphere implementation.

Which storage protocol is best for you? Should you build your vCenter as a virtual machine? Design your storage for capacity or for performance? This new updated edition reveals the design decisions that most companies face, explores the available options, discusses solutions—then helps you make the right choices. In addition to Datacenter Virtualization, this book also examines vCloud Director deployments.

Packed with real-world proven strategies, it’s the perfect guide for deploying a new design or transforming an existing one. Inside, you’ll explore:

  • The fundamentals of designing VMware environments
  • The overall design process
  • Key things to consider, such as server hardware selection and sizing, security, virtual machine templates, and more
  • How networking and storage landscapes impact vSphere design
  • Design decisions that a typical company encounters, taking into consideration availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security
  • Designing VMware vCloud Director environments

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. An Introduction to Designing VMware Environments
Chapter 2. The ESXi Hypervisor
Chapter 3. The Management Layer
Chapter 4. Server Hardware
Chapter 5. Designing Your Network
Chapter 6. Storage
Chapter 7. Virtual Machines
Chapter 8. Datacenter Design
Chapter 9. Designing with Security in Mind
Chapter 10. Monitoring and Capacity Planning
Chapter 11. Bringing a vSphere Design Together
Chapter 12. vCloud Design

Book Details

  • Paperback: 528 pages
  • Publisher: Sybex; 2nd Edition (March 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118407911
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118407912
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Data Points

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 05:02 AM PDT

Book Description

A fresh look at visualization from the author of Visualize This

Whether it’s statistical charts, geographic maps, or the snappy graphical statistics you see on your favorite news sites, the art of data graphics or visualization is fast becoming a movement of its own. In Data Points: Visualization That Means Something, author Nathan Yau presents an intriguing complement to his bestseller Visualize This, this time focusing on the graphics side of data analysis. Using examples from art, design, business, statistics, cartography, and online media, he explores both standard-and not so standard-concepts and ideas about illustrating data.

  • Shares intriguing ideas from Nathan Yau, author of Visualize This and creator of flowingdata.com, with over 66,000 subscribers
  • Focuses on visualization, data graphics that help viewers see trends and patterns they might not otherwise see in a table
  • Includes examples from the author’s own illustrations, as well as from professionals in statistics, art, design, business, computer science, cartography, and more
  • Examines standard rules across all visualization applications, then explores when and where you can break those rules

Create visualizations that register at all levels, with Data Points: Visualization That Means Something.

From the Back Cover
Reveal the story your data has to tell

To create effective data visualizations, you must be part statistician, part designer, and part storyteller. In his bestselling book Visualize This, Nathan Yau introduced you to the tools and programming techniques for visualization. Now, in Data Points, he explores the thinking process that helps you create original, meaningful visualizations that your audience will both understand and remember. Here’s how to make your data mean something.

  • Discover what data is and what you can learn from it
  • Learn how to explore your data, find the story, and bring it to life
  • Understand visualization as a medium that lets you present and express meaning in data
  • Tap into your creative side and determine the most effective way to tell your story
  • Compare tools for exploration and analysis
  • Allow data, the story, and your goals to dictate visualization techniques with geometry, traditional charts, maps, color, art, and even humor

Book Details

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley (April 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 111846219X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118462195
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Photography Business Secrets

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 04:40 AM PDT

Book Description

Give your photography business an edge with these professional insights

There are already more than 150,000 professional photographers in the U.S., according to Department of Labor statistics, and thousands of serious amateurs are continually seeking to become established. Whether yours is a new or long-standing photography business, you have plenty of competition. Lara White has collected the best advice from her popular photography business website, Photomint.com, into this guide for your reference. She covers establishing your brand, defining policies, setting prices, creating a marketing plan, networking, and a great deal more.

  • Photography is a rapidly growing industry, placing both established and beginning photographers in tough competition for business
  • Author Lara White runs a popular website teaching successful business strategies to photographers; this book collects and organizes valuable information to help newcomers get started and existing businesses grow
  • Covers business fundamentals including establishing a brand, defining studio policies, setting pricing, creating a marketing plan, understanding your audience, networking, and effective social media marketing
  • Provides proven tips for building a successful photography business

Photography Business Secrets is packed with advice that can help your photography business succeed and thrive, even in today’s economy.

From the Back Cover
A successful photography business is 20% photography, 80% business

What sinks so many photo studios? It’s not the quality of their work. It’s failure to recognize they’re running a business. That’s why this book is not about planning a shoot, choosing lenses, or using Photoshop. It’s the essential, no-nonsense guide to running your photography business.

Lara White has a proven method for getting control of your business so it doesn’t control you. Whether you’re ready to step up from hobbyist to professional photographer or you’re already in business and feeling overwhelmed, this photography course in a book will get you on track.

Learn to:

  • Choose your niche and your market
  • Gain experience and build your portfolio
  • Understand and craft the right photo business plan
  • Cover critical accounting, legal, and insurance functions
  • Develop your brand, identify the products you’ll provide, and establish pricing
  • Determine your photography marketing strategy and make sales
  • Meet and exceed your clients’ expectations

Find more resources at www.PhotoMint.com to help your photography business succeed

Book Details

  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley (March 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118488407
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118488409
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Beyond Auto Mode

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 04:38 AM PDT

Book Description

Take full advantage of your dSLR camera, and do it with confidence

Many people buy dSLR cameras for their flexibility, but find themselves so intimidated by all the options and controls that they rarely venture beyond the automatic mode. With a friendly tone and clear, understandable instruction, photographer and educator Jen Bebb introduces you to every mode and setting on your sophisticated dSLR. After thoroughly explaining shutter speed, aperture, depth of field, ISO, and basic composition, she offers direction on what each camera mode does and when it should be used. You’ll gain the confidence to use the entire feature set you paid for.

  • Beginning dSLR users are often intimidated by the scene, semi-automatic, and fully manual modes on their cameras; this guide gently explains each mode and setting
  • Uses a conversational tone and liberal examples to define and explain basic concepts including shutter speed, aperture, ISO, depth of field, and composition
  • Covers how each camera mode works and when to consider using it
  • Helps those new to dSLR photography to gain confidence and begin taking advantage of all the flexibility a dSLR offers

Written by a professional photographer who is also known for her skill as an instructor, Beyond Auto Mode encourages new and less experienced dSLR users to take the next step toward creative control.

From the Back Cover
Take charge of your image
You can do it

Part art and part science, photography records and preserves the moments of our lives. Sure, you can snap a picture with your smartphone. But if you want to create a truly memorable portrait of a moment, you must master lighting, exposure, and focus. When you control what makes the photo, you — not the camera — control the results.

Enter the exhilarating world beyond auto mode, and feel the power of crafting the total image.

  • Master the exposure triangle: ISO, aperture, and shutter speed
  • Experiment with settings to learn what they do
  • Practice with semi-automatic modes
  • See how different types of light affect your image
  • Understand exactly what you can control and what the camera controls
  • Explore settings for portraits, landscapes, and other common shots
  • Learn to create the perfect image in the camera, instead of fixing a mediocre image with Photoshop

Book Details

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley (February 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118172876
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118172872
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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Office 2013

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 04:36 AM PDT

Book Description

Learn the new Microsoft Office suite the easy, visual way

Microsoft Office 2013 is a power-packed suite of office productivity tools including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and Publisher. This easy-to-use visual guide covers the basics of all six programs, with step-by-step instructions and full-color screen shots showing what you should see at each step. You’ll also learn about using Office Internet and graphics tools, while the additional examples and advice scattered through the book give you tips on maximizing the Office suite. If you learn best when you can see how things are done, this book is for you.

  • Shows you how to use Microsoft Office 2013 with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions illustrated with full-color screen shots
  • Covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and Publisher
  • Includes additional information on using Office Internet and graphics tools
  • Designed to help visual learners read less and learn more

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Office 2013 shows you how to use all six tools in the Office suite, step by step.

From the Back Cover
Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you’ll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 225 Office 2013 tasks. Each task-based spread covers a single technique, sure to help you get up and running on Office 2013 in no time.

You’ll learn to:

  • Use eight Office programs
  • Work with Office files online
  • Construct and review documents
  • Build spreadsheets and databases
  • Create publications and take notes

Designed for visual learners

  • Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
  • Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
  • Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
  • Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks

Book Details

  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley / Visual (March 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118517687
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118517680
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