Senin, 15 Juli 2013

Wow! eBook: VMware Private Cloud Computing with vCloud Director - 4 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: VMware Private Cloud Computing with vCloud Director - 4 new eBooks

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VMware Private Cloud Computing with vCloud Director

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 09:06 AM PDT

Book Description

It’s All About Delivering Service with vCloud Director

Empowered by virtualization, companies are not just moving into the cloud, they’re moving into private clouds for greater security, flexibility, and cost savings. However, this move involves more than just infrastructure. It also represents a different business model and a new way to provide services. In this detailed book, VMware vExpert Simon Gallagher makes sense of private cloud computing for IT administrators. From basic cloud theory and strategies for adoption to practical implementation, he covers all the issues. You’ll learn how to build a private cloud and deliver it as a service using VMware vCloud Director 5.1.

  • Consider what it takes to transition to the cloud, including the business, technical, and operational issues
  • Get familiar with the essential tools—the vCloud Director 5.1 suite
  • Understand the delivery model of infrastructure-as-a-service
  • Define a service catalog, including determining how to track and allocate costs and design for service levels
  • Measure the impact of a private cloud on your legacy applications and infrastructure
  • Implement efficient operations—learn how to apply automation, set up backup and restore, and maintain HA
  • Deliver an end-to-end solution to an end user with a fully managed guest
  • Foreword by Joe Baguley, Chief Technologist, EMEA, VMware

Table of Contents
Part I: Private Cloud Foundations
Chapter 1. What Makes a Private Cloud?
Chapter 2. Developing Your Strategy
Chapter 3. Introducing VMware vCloud Director

Part II: Designing Your Cloud Service
Chapter 4. Defi ning the Service Catalog
Chapter 5. Platform Design for vCloud Director
Chapter 6. Building a Cost Model

Part III: Building the Cloud
Chapter 7. Installing VMware vCloud Director
Chapter 8. Delivering Services
Chapter 9. Consuming Services
Chapter 10. Integrating Automation

Part IV: Operating the Cloud
Chapter 11. Managing Your Cloud
Chapter 12. Business Continuity

Book Details

  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Sybex (June 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118180585
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118180587
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Maya Visual Effects The Innovator’s Guide, 2nd Edition

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 09:01 AM PDT

Book Description

Create innovative CG solutions with Maya and this creative guide

Professional Maya artists have to think on their feet. It’s nothing for them to receive just vague sketches or incomplete ideas of what the studio wants and have to come up with something brilliant. If you’re an intermediate to advanced Maya user, Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator’s Guide, Second Edition is what you need to meet the challenge. Professional Maya artist Eric Keller offers inspired solutions and hands-on projects, as well as numerous practical shortcuts and deadlines, so you learn to produce innovative CG assets from scratch, using Maya, on a deadline.

  • Shows intermediate to advanced Maya users new solutions, workarounds, and shortcuts for creating Maya visual effects on deadline
  • Gives readers plenty of hands-on projects, so they come up with solutions that they can add to their Maya toolsets
  • Offers workable ideas that can be applied, no matter which version of Maya software is being used
  • Presents projects in an engaging style, with pages of full-color imagery to illustrate concepts

Create amazing effects with the creative insights and fresh advice in this new edition of Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator’s Guide.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Texture Effects
Chapter 2. Particle Effects
Chapter 3. Joint Rigging for Effects
Chapter 4. Creative Blend Shape Techniques
Chapter 5. Paint Effects
Chapter 6. nCloth Techniques
Chapter 7. Fluid Effects
Chapter 8. nHair and Fur Effects

Book Details

  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Sybex; 2nd Edition (May 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118441605
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118441602
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Group Policy: Fundamentals, Security, and the Managed Desktop, 2nd Edition

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 08:57 AM PDT

Book Description

The Ultimate Book on Group Policy

Freshly updated to include Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, Group Policy: Fundamentals, Security, and the Managed Desktop, Second Edition is the book for learning everything you need to know about Group Policy, no matter which version of Windows you use. Microsoft Group Policy MVP Jeremy Moskowitz covers it all—major Group Policy categories, what Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 bring to the table, and smart ways to tackle tough desktop management problems. Topics include troubleshooting, security, scripting, using Windows PowerShell when necessary, and much more.

Inside this book, you’ll learn to:

  • Master all Group Policy functions of Windows, including Windows XP through Windows 8 and Windows Server 2003 through Windows Server 2012
  • Enhance your Group Policy reach with the Group Policy Preferences, ADMX files, and additional add-ons
  • Use every feature of the GPMC and become a top-notch administrator
  • Troubleshoot Group Policy using tools, logs, Resource Kit utilities, Registry hacks, and third-party tools
  • Manage printers, restrict hardware, and configure Internet Explorer
  • Deploy software to your desktops, set up roaming profiles, and configure Offline Files for all your Windows clients—and manage it all with Group Policy settings
  • Secure your desktops and servers with AppLocker, Windows Firewall with Advanced Security, and the Security Configuration Manager

Download bonus chapters and:

  • Script complex GPMC operations with PowerShell, including linking, backup, restore, permissions changes, and more
  • Create a “change management” system with Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM v4)
  • Understand Windows Intune service and its relationship to Group Policy

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Group Policy Essentials
Chapter 2. Managing Group Policy with the GPMC
Chapter 3. Group Policy Processing Behavior Essentials
Chapter 4. Advanced Group Policy Processing
Chapter 5. Group Policy Preferences
Chapter 6. Managing Applications and Settings Using Group Policy
Chapter 7. Troubleshooting Group Policy
Chapter 8. Implementing Security with Group Policy
Chapter 9. Profiles: Local, Roaming, and Mandatory
Chapter 10. Implementing a Managed Desktop, Part 1: Redirected Folders, Offline Files, and the Synchronization Manager
Chapter 11. The Managed Desktop, Part 2: Software Deployment via Group Policy
Chapter 12. Finishing Touches with Group Policy: Scripts, Internet Explorer, Hardware Control, and Printer Deployment

Appendix A. Group Policy and VDI
Appendix B. Security Configuration Manager
Appendix C. Windows Intune (And What It Means to Group Policy Admins)

Book Details

  • Paperback: 912 pages
  • Publisher: Sybex; 2nd Edition (January 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118289404
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118289402
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You Should Test That

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 08:50 AM PDT

Book Description

Learn how to convert website visitors into customers

Part science and part art, conversion optimization is designed to turn visitors into customers. Carefully developed testing procedures are necessary to help you fine-tune images, headlines, navigation, colors, buttons, and every other element, creating a website that encourages visitors to take the action you seek. This book guides you through creating an optimization strategy that supports your business goals, using appropriate analytics tools, generating quality testing ideas, running online experiments, and making the adjustments that work.

  • Conversion optimization is part science and part art; this guide provides step-by-step guidance to help you optimize your website for maximum conversion rates
  • Explains how to analyze data, prioritize experiment opportunities, and choose the right testing methods
  • Helps you learn what to adjust, how to do it, and how to analyze the results
  • Features hands-on exercises, case studies, and a full-color insert reinforcing key tactics
  • Author has used these techniques to assist Fortune 500 clients

You Should Test That explains both the “why” and the “how” of conversion optimization, helping you maximize the value of your website.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Why You Should Test That
Chapter 2. What is Conversion Optimization?
Chapter 3. Prioritize Testing Opportunities
Chapter 4. Create Hypotheses with the LIFT Model
Chapter 5. Optimize Your Value Proposition
Chapter 6. Optimize for Relevance
Chapter 7. Optimize for Clarity
Chapter 8. Optimize for Anxiety
Chapter 9. Optimize for Distraction
Chapter 10. Optimize for Urgency
Chapter 11. Test Your Hypotheses
Chapter 12. Analyze Your Test Results
Chapter 13. Strategic Marketing Optimization

Book Details

  • Paperback: 360 pages
  • Publisher: Sybex (January 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118301307
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118301302
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