This is an open set of lecture notes on metaheuristics algorithms, a common but unfortunate name for any stochastic optimization algorithm intended to be the last resort before giving up and using random or brute-force search.
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This book brings together in a unified manner topics that are indispensible for scientists engaging in largescale computations.
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Ebooks-it.orgis a site where you can download I.T., computer, andprogramming ebooks in many areas and topics. These computer ebookscover open source, Linux, Microsoft, Cisco, and Oracletechnologies, to name a few. This site offers a very good selection tochoose from, to quote their home page: “to access thousands of ebooksyou just have to browse the various categories or […]
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Chapter 1: Changing the Way We Deliver Services with Cloud Computing
by Dan Sullivan
Computing is constantly changing, creating new hardware technologies, improving software, and optimizing business processes. The history of computing is almost a constant stream of advances. Mainframe computing was followed by mini-computers, which were followed by personal computers, and most recently mobile devices. Software development followed a similar trajectory with an evolution that started with batch-oriented mainframe applications and moved through client server models to highly distributed service-oriented architectures and Web applications. Business processes changed and computing expanded beyond the reach of large volume highly-focused back office systems supporting core operations to widely adopted collaboration and personal productivity applications. Sometimes the changes in hardware, software, and business processes converge in ways that create significant new opportunities for delivering business services. The advent of cloud computing is one of those events.Cloud computing in its simplest form is a model for allocating compute and storage resources on demand. In practice, it is much more. Cloud computing offers new ways to provide services while significantly altering the cost structure underlying those services. These new technical and pricing opportunities drive changes in the way businesses operate. The Definitive Guide to Cloud Computing describes the technical, operational, and organizational aspects of cloud computing and provides a roadmap for navigating the emerging landscape of cloud computing.
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Volume 5: Identifying Threats of Data Loss, Recovery Management Strategy, and Security Issues with Backups, Archives, and Disaster Recovery
by Dan Sullivan
Volume 5 of the The Tips and Tricks Guide to Windows Administration addresses the following topics: 1) Identifying Threats of Data Loss in a Windows Server Environment, 2) Understanding the Building Blocks of a Recovery Management Strategy, and 3) Understanding Security Issues with Backups, Archives, and Disaster Recovery.
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Chapter 2: Breaking Through Technical Barriers to Effective Recovery Management
by Dan Sullivan
This chapter will examine several technical barriers commonly encountered when implementing recovery management services. These common challenges include: 1) Protecting virtual environments, 2) Meeting the specialized backup and recovery requirements of databases and content management systems, 3) Solving remote office backup and recovery challenges, and 4) Ensuring continuity in disaster recovery operations. Throughout this chapter, we will see examples of the need to adapt recovery management techniques to application‐specific requirements and systems‐implementation–specific requirements. These examples show that recovery management is much more than simply a matter of backing up files.
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How to Give Different Access to Smart Card Logins Using AD’s Authentication Mechanism Assurance
by Greg Shields
Usernames and passwords are good things. They provide a mechanism to prove that the identified person is indeed who they are. But usernames and passwords are only one component of authentication, providing merely “something you know.” Elevating a weak authentication system such as passwords to a strong authentication system also requires “something you have.”
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Chapter 2: How Business Intelligence Happens
by Don Jones
How, exactly, do you “get” a business intelligence (BI) system into your organization? BI hasn’t traditionally been something you just install onto a server or client computer, so it’s important to understand the process, tools, and techniques that are involved in implementing and creating it. Some of these may, in fact, be major reasons why your midsize company has avoided BI in the past-making it even more important to understand not only the technologies, tools, and techniques but also how they’ve evolved in recent years to meet the needs of companies other than giant enterprises.In this chapter, I’ll explain the basic processes by which BI is introduced into an environment. I”ll also look at some of the reasons BI is traditionally a time-consuming and expensive proposition for most companies, and set up some of the ways in which you can implement BI more easily and for less money. Think of this chapter as the “BI life cycle”-a look into what BI actually looks like inside an organization like yours.
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This book presents techniques to stop many kinds of bugs from being included in a program. It also discusses how to test programs to find bugs.
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This book is intended to cover all aspects of installing, configuring and administering Windows Server 2008 R2 systems. It also provides practical, step by step examples intended to bridge the gap between text book theory and real world practice.
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