Enterprise Identity and Access Management - New Series Available!
by Richard Siddaway

The Essentials Series: Enterprise Identity and Access Management starts by looking at identity and how you prove who you are. Once authenticated, you can be authorized to access the corporate data. There are a number of administration challenges in this field especially when multiple identity and access management systems are in use. The series premise is that consolidation on to a single system - namely Active Directory - can resolve these issues and provide a simplified system that is less expensive and more secure. The series closes with a look at the compliance issues surrounding Identity and Access Management and how these issues can be addressed by standardizing and consolidating on to Active Directory.Articles in this series include:Article #1: AuthenticationArticle #2: AuthorizationArticle #3: Administration ChallengesArticle #4: Compliance

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The Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and Sevice Management - New eBook Available!
by Greg Shields

You’ve read the news stories and seen the promise that virtualization brings to the enterprise data center. In just a few short years, the idea of virtualization and the business benefits it brings has spread to virtually every facet of IT. Whether consolidating servers, individual desktops, the network itself, your critical storage, or the applications that drive your data processing, virtualization is the hot topic throughout Information Technology and its technologies today.Yet while all of these purported benefits are valid, the smart enterprise recognizes that virtualization’s promise is only truly achieved when virtualization augments the processing of business. The intent of this guide is to assist the smart enterprise with understanding virtualization’s fit into the rest of the IT environment. A major part of that fit is in aligning the promise of virtualization technology with the automation benefits associated with virtualization management. What you’ll find in reading this guide is that notwithstanding what technologies and technological improvements virtualization brings to the table, there are a set of management enhancements that also arrive. Those enhancements are a function of the levels of automation that naturally bundles with the move to virtualization.Chapter List:Chapter 1: Virtualization and Service ManagementChapter 2: Virtualization Automation: The Pure-play ApproachChapter 3: Automating Change Management in Virtualized EnvironmentsChapter 4: Problem Resolution in Virtualized EnvironmentsAuthor Quote:“Alone and without the right indicators in place, virtualization is yet another technology in a long string that improves the lives of individual IT administrators yet doesn’t demonstrably impact the bottom line,” explains author Greg Shields. “On the other hand, when integrated with a focus on improving operational processes and business agility, virtualization pays huge dividends to the smart enterprise. Focusing on the processes that wrap around virtualization, this guide explains how virtualization brings automation of many levels to the IT environment.”

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Here are 740 technical and programming eBooks whose links areavailable at books-pdf.blogspot.com.These ebooks cover a wide variety of areas, such as Java, C and C++programming, .NET, C# programming, Web Development, Ajax, PHP, Ruby,Rails, Database, Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), 3DAnimation, and Algorithms.Category of eBooks at books-pdf.blogspot.com: .Net(2) .NETBooks (14) 3DAnimation (27) […]

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Here is all of the Java code from two Java Game ProgrammingBooks, by Dr. Andrew Davison (note: the books are not free, only the code). Code for: Killer Game Programming in Java. This book shows Java programmers, who already know the basics of Java, how to code reusable modules and components which can be put together to create many types of […]

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Here is a complete set of Slides,Lab Exervises, Code, and Tutorials covering JDBC(Java Database Connectivity). Here is the JavaCode and the practice database, and here are the exercises: JDBCLab 1 Exercises and JDBCLab 2 Exercises.JDBCSlides Set 1: Introduction to Java Database ConnectivityProvides background on JDBC to help with the lab exercises(39 slides, 445kb, ppt format)1. […]

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Here is a 26-lesson C Programming Tutorial, alongwith 24 C Coding Examples, from java2s.com. The C#tutorial covers topics such as Data Type, String, printf scanf,Operator, Statement, Array, Function, Structure, Pointer, Memory,Preprocessor, Data Structure, Search Sort, and Wide Character String .These lessons will get you up to speed with these fundamental Cprogramming concepts.CProgramming Tutorial1. Language2. DataType3. String4. printfscanf5. Operator6. Statement7. Array8. Function9. Structure10. Pointer11. Memory12. Preprocessor13. File14. DataStructure15. SearchSort16. WideCharacter String17. assert.h18. ctype.h19. math.h20. setjmp.h21. signal.h22. stdio.h23. stdlib.h24. string.h25. time.h26. wctype.hC- ANSI C […]

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Java2s.com hosts this well documented C++ ProgrammingTutorial with 32 lessons, along with 30 C++Coding Examples. The C++ tutorial covers the following areas:DataTypes, Operators statements, Array, Development, Exceptions, Function,Structure, Class, Operator Overloading, Pointer, File Stream, template,string, vector, list, bitset, set multiset, valarray, queue stack,deque, and several STL Algorithms. This tutorial and the code examplesbelow will help you […]

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Here is a nice 31-lesson C# Tutorial and 25 good C# CodingExamples, both from java2s.com. The C# tutorialcovers topics such as Data Type, Operator, Statement, String, struct,Class, Operator Overload, delegate, Attribute, Data Structure, FileDirectory Stream, Preprocessing Directives, Regular Expressions,Generic, Reflection, Thread, Internationalization, GUI Windows Forms,Design Patterns, XML, ADO.Net, Network, Directory Services, andSecurity. To become a proficient […]

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Here is theBlue Library, which provides links to many IT andSoftware Engineering education resouces, including computer, IT, andprogramming eBooks, Manuals and Video Training.Contents of the Blue Library:InformationTechnology eBooks (2215)Exams(38)VideoTraining (491)BusinessEbooks (93)Engineeringebooks (130)

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Here is the Data Structures Course and Lecture Slidesat mtholyoke.edu, which will help you  better understand datastructures, if you need this. Topics covered by the lecture slidesinclude: Lists, Queues and Stack, Runtime analysis, Templates,Recursion, Trees, Complexity, Sets, AVL trees, Heaps, ncubed, SplayTrees, B trees, B+ trees, and Hashing. These data structure slides willalso help you understand how to […]

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