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June 25, 2009  5:00 AM

Enterprise Voice with Microsoft Unified Communications



Posted by: BrentSheets
Addison-Wesley, Joe Schurman, Microsoft Office Communications Server, Microsoft Response Point, Microsoft Windows Live, Unified Communications, VoIP

Overview: "Microsoft’s vision of voice products and services for consumer, small/medium businesses, and enterprise organizations including a foreword by Gurdeep Singh Pall, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Unified Communications Group, and commentary by...

June 8, 2009  5:00 AM

Cloud Computing set to change roles in IT



Posted by: BrentSheets
CIO, Cloud computing, From the Authors, Peter Fingar

In addition to providing free sample chapters from the latest enterprise IT and development books - this blog invites authors of IT books to submit guest posts. I'm pleased to present our first guest post from Peter Fingar, author of Dot Cloud: The 21st Century Business Platform. Enjoy...


May 14, 2009  5:00 AM

Tuning database applications for performance



Posted by: BrentSheets
Data access, Database applications, Database performance, Database scalability, DB2, John Goodson, MySQL, Oracle, Prentice Hall, Robert A. Steward, SQL Server

Overview: "Performance and scalability are more critical than ever in today’s enterprise database applications, and traditional database tuning isn't nearly enough to solve the performance problems you are likely to see in those applications. Nowadays, 75-95%...


May 7, 2009  5:00 AM

Oracle on Linux: Analyzing Server Performance



Posted by: BrentSheets
Apress, Bernard Lopuz, Charles Kim, Darl Kuhn, Linux, Oracle on Linux

Overview: "Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs is an example-based book on managing Oracle Database in a Linux environment. Covering commonly used distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux, the book is written for database...


April 30, 2009  5:00 AM

The Gathering Storm: Get your head into the clouds



Posted by: BrentSheets
CIO, Cloud computing, Data Center design, Meghan-Kiffer Press, Peter Fingar

Overview: "In Dot.Cloud: The 21st Century Business Platform, business strategy expert and former CIO Peter Fingar explains the main ideas of Cloud Computing in lay terms. Peter also does some old-fashioned reporting to bring together the ideas of the movers...