Prepares two-year college students still in need of Basic Algebra. This book intends to get the students to change from trying to "remember" things, to be able to "reconstruct" them as needed.

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Chapter 1: The Power of Intelligent Network Management through Discovery and Mapping
by Chris Hampton

Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are facing tough times in today’s economy. Because of tighter budgets, many businesses must demand more from the investments they have made in Information Technology. Thus, there is an immediate need for networks to work smarter, not harder. This means that devices and systems on the network must maintain availability and continue performing efficiently at no additional cost to the business and the users. The challenge is daunting – from critical messaging systems to high-density virtual infrastructures, an administrator needs to discover, monitor, and track availability and performance across every device and system. The Shortcut Guide to Smart Network Management for the SMB provides an analysis of these challenges and a clear understanding of how smart network management can meet them.Chapters in this book include:Chapter 1: The Power of Intelligent Network Management through Discovery and MappingChapter 2: The Importance of Proactive Monitoring and AlertingChapter 3: The Key to Smart Configuration and Change ManagementChapter 4: Four Must-Have Features for a Smart Network Management Solution

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Chapter 1: In Application Performance, the End User’s Experience is King
by Don Jones

Businesses are driving their IT operations managers to improve performance and boost productivity by becoming increasingly application-centric, a radical change of the infrastructure-centric approach that IT has had for years. At the same time, however, applications themselves are becoming increasingly difficult to manage as they move toward highly-distributed, multi-tier, multi-element constructs that in many cases rely on application development frameworks such as Microsoft .NET or Java.In The Five Essential Elements of Application Performance Monitoring, author and renowned business technology expert Don Jones shows you the 5D Framework, an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) approach that helps businesses achieve this new application-centric focus. You will learn how to improve application performance from the perspective of the business and the end user by constructing a 5D-compatible approach to APM within your own environment. Jones offers an informative discussion of new tools and techniques that are enabling new, more effective forms of APM, and closes the book with a set of evaluation criteria for APM tools, based on the 5D approach.

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Chapter 1: Evolving IT: Data Centers, Software as a Service, Hosted Solutions, Virtualization, and Clouds
by Don Jones

It’s only recently that businesses have started focusing on modern application performance management techniques, and along comes cloud computing and other “hybrid IT” elements (such as Software as a Service) to make application performance even more complicated. How can you possibly manage the performance of applications and application components that reside outside your own network? Or, if you’re a Managed Service Provider (MSP), how can you help your customers manage the performance of their hybrid applications? In The Definitive Guide to Monitoring the Data Center, Virtual Environments, and the Cloud by business technology writer and analyst Don Jones, you’ll see how application performance management techniques need to evolve to accommodate hybrid IT. You’ll learn about emerging techniques and technologies, and develop a “shopping list” of capabilities that your IT environment will need in order to survive in the Hybrid Age. Chapters include:Chapter 1: Evolving IT: Data Centers, Software as a Service, Hosted Solutions, Virtualization, and CloudsChapter 2: Traditional IT Monitoring, and Why it No Longer WorksChapter 3: The Customer is King: Monitoring the End User ExperienceChapter 4: Success is in the Details: Monitoring at the Component LevelChapter 5: The Capabilities You Need to Monitor IT From the Datacenter into the CloudChapter 6: IT Health: Management Reporting as a Service

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Complete Series: Strategies for Cloud Storage, Data Protection, and Disaster Recovery
by Don Jones

Too many of today’s businesses – especially smaller and mid-sized companies – are placing enormous trust in antiquated data protection schemes: Backup tapes stored in a fire safe, or in the trunk of someone’s car, does not constitute a disaster recovery scheme or even a data protection plan. In fact, most companies’ disaster recovery tools do very little the meet the company’s actual business needs, like quickly recovering the most critical data in the event of a failure. In The Essentials Series: Strategies for Cloud Storage, Data Protection, and Disaster Recovery, IT author and strategist Don Jones examines the new approaches and capabilities offered by cloud storage and cloud-based data protection solutions. He offers a look at these solutions’ challenges, and outlines specific considerations that businesses have to keep in mind when using them. Finally, he provides a framework for basic storage strategies that incorporate cloud technologies, positioning you to begin researching a solution that truly meets your business needs.Articles in this series include:Article 1: What Can Cloud Storage Really Do For You?Article 2: Challenges and Special Considerations for Cloud StorageArticle 3: Leveraging the Cloud for Storage and Disaster Recovery: Three Practical Strategies

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Chapter 1: What Is High Availability?
by Richard Siddaway

Solutions and systems that address High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) have been paramount in preventing application downtime and its crippling effect on productivity and operational output. But the traditional differences between HA and DR have been blurred by new mechanisms introduced by emerging technologies. And while it is possible to provide HA and DR together, there are cases when it is important to keep the two activities separate in order to guarantee 24X7 access to business applications.In The Shortcut Guide to Untangling the Difference Between High Availability and Disaster Recovery, author and IT expert Richard Siddaway examines HA and DR, and explains how understanding the many differences between the two will allow you to create a proper system to guard against application downtime. Siddaway offers his insight not only on how technology can be used in HA and DR solutions, but also how management of the human element must factor into any successful HA / DR solution.

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Complete Series: Faster Problem Resolution with Remote Support Capabilities
by Ed Tittel

No one would argue that the today’s modern help desk staff has an easy job. In addition to operating on reduced budgets and lower staff counts, a typical help desk staff must now support mobile users working from home, customer sites, or on the road. In these situations, an effective, user-centric remote control solution is an absolute must in order to establish and manage user PCs remotely, to diagnose and repair problems, and to teach users how to make the most of their systems and software.In The Essentials Series: Faster Problem Resolution with Remote Support Capabilities, Ed Tittel takes you through the many issues that plague the modern help desk, and states the case for implementing user-centric remote support. He demonstrates how tools such as built-in interactive chat, file transfer, and sessions that persist across multiple reboots enable help desk staff to be supportive and to identify and resolve problems quickly and accurately. Lastly, Ed offers insight on how built-in monitoring and behind-the-scenes session sharing and observation tools let management accurately assess help desk productivity, help desk staff skills and abilities, and ticket resolution rates.

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