Training, systems support, backup and maintenance account for nearly 80% of the total cost of today's enterprise applications -- and much of that money is spent trying to squeeze increased availability out of applications in spite of weak design and management processes. In High Availability: Design, Techniques and Processes, two leading IT experts bring together "best practices" for every people and process-related issue associated with maximizing application availability. The goal: to help enterprises dramatically improve the value of their strategic applications, without spending more money. Using extensive real-world examples and scenarios, the authors cover the entire application lifecycle. Learn how to design systems that will be easier to maintain; ensure that new systems will not increase in cost later due to problems you could have anticipated; and plan long-term availability strategies. Discover how to improve redundancy, increase standardization, simplify backups, and much more. These strategies and techniques are applicable to any IT professional, at any level, in any architecture, from traditional mainframes through client/server to leading-edge n-tier environments. For all IT professionals, including system architects, project managers, administrators, software developers and software engineers.

High Availability: Design, Techniques, and Processes

Business & Money

Piedad, Floyd

Hawkins, Michael

Management & Leadership

PRENTICE/HALL

For CEOs, CIOs, VPs of IT, and all levels of IT management and technical staff. Based on the authors' real-life experiences implementing client-server production environments over the past six years, this book gives the "how to" information needed to implement a heterogeneous client-server infrastructure, and deals with the "people issues" of getting everyone to work together.

Managing the New Enterprise: The Proof, Not the Hype

Johnson, Randy

Kern, Harris

KENNEDY, William

Law, Andrew

Tackles the information technology questions facing business professionals today, and suggests some solutions. Offers advice on evaluating the cost of networking and planning networking projects. Topics include Internet connectivity, network management and access, security, remote access, and servers and desktop systems. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Networking the New Enterprise: The Proof, Not the Hype

Lyke, Howie

Cappel, Mark

A look at the author's controversial theory that 90% of the universe is made up of minuscule black holes with the mass of Jupiter but small in size offers speculation about the theory, groundbreaking scientific research to prove it, and thoughts on the jealousy and political pressure he has faced.

Hunting Down the Universe: The Missing Mass, Primordial Black Holes, and Other Dark Matters

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

Helix Books/Addison Wesley

An official language of the Philippines, Filipino is based on Tagalog, with elements of Spanish, English, and Chinese mixed in. The result is a rich, expressive language spoken in the Philippines and throughout the far-reaching Filipino diaspora. Filipino Tapestry offers an innovative approach to learning language by emphasizing the critical intersection of language and culture. It provides activities and exercises that immerse beginning and intermediate students of Filipino in a variety of authentic situations to simulate an in-country experience. Starting with chapters on such topics as family, friends, and home, it then expands the student’s world in chapters prompting conversation about food, shopping, parties, and pastimes. Its later chapters push learners to discuss city and country life, cultural traditions, religion, history, and politics. Features include: • background chapters on phonology, sentence construction, and common expressions • photos and cultural notes about chapter themes • grammar, reading, listening, and speaking exercises • glossaries of words and additional expressions

Filipino Tapestry: Tagalog Language through Culture (English and Philippine Languages Edition)

Gallo-Crail, Rhodalyne

University of Wisconsin Press

This audio CD is a central component of the lessons in the textbook Filipino Tapestry, which offers an innovative approach to learning language by emphasizing the critical intersection of language and culture. Together, the book and CD provide activities and exercises that immerse beginning and intermediate students of Filipino language in a variety of authentic situations to simulate an in-country experience. The audio CD contains clear, concise, authentic dialogues of native Filipino speakers. The tracks are designed to convey actual conversations in relevant cultural contexts.

Filipino Tapestry Audio Supplement: To accompany Filipino Tapestry, Tagalog Language through Culture

Hunting Down the Universe: The Missing Mass, Primordial Black Holes and Other Dark Matters

Little,Brown

Science & Ethics Of Equality

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Basic Books

This work describes Dr Hawkin's discovery that the vast bulk of the universe is in the form of primordial black holes which had their genesis within the first instant of creation. It is a key cosmological breakthrough that draws together the most significant insights of our era into a comprehensive view of the universe. Dr Hawkins started an investigation 20 years ago into 300 quasars - the brightest objects in the universe - and why they change in brightness. Calculations based on his research showed that 99 percent of the universe is made up of dark objects that cannot be directly seen - some as big as the planet Jupiter, others mini black holes (imploded stars). Their discovery has solved the mystery of what consitutes as much as 99 percent of the universe's mass.

Hunting Down The Universe: The Missing Mass, Primordial Black Holes, And Other Dark Matters (Helix Books)

Set in the mid-2000's in the sand-blown beach town of Daytona, Florida, "Everyone Comes Here To Die" follows three twenty-something ne'erdowells over a year of their lives. The terminally disaffected Jeff, George, and Ray are sure they want to do something with themselves one day, but they just don't know what it is yet. Until they do, they settle for wandering around their neighborhood in the middle of the night, destroying property, quitting jobs, ruining relationships, and generally disappointing their parents. When a mutual acquaintance goes missing, during the investigation they begin to discover what might be at the root of their voluntary stagnation.  The town of Daytona, more character than backdrop, plays a major part in this tale. Its desolate backstreets and poor economic state are in stark contrast to most peoples' idea of sunny beaches filled with beautiful models and friendly retirees. "Everyone Comes Here To Die" is a look behind that curtain, at a place where people are born to quit and fester forever in a sub-tropical, suburban wasteland. This 2014 edition constitutes the definitive version of this story: reworked, rewritten, and repolished. Eight other tales are included, each connecting to "Everyone Comes Here To Die" in its own specific way.

Everyone Comes Here To Die and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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