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To celebrate Earth Day, Inform IT is offering a 40% discount on the list price of all their eBooks, plus Cert Flash Cards Online. Visit their Store for a complete list of eBook titles and enter the coupon EARTHDAY during checkout. Offer valid through 5/31/2009.

Articles and Sample Chapters

Articles and chapters by John Lamb, author of The Greening of IT: How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment

Green IT: The Key to Energy Efficiency
A discussion with John Lamb and associates at IBM about the significance as well as benefits of going green in your data center.

The Importance of Green IT
John Lamb explains the basic environmental impact of IT—including data centers’ consumption of fossil fuel-based electric energy—and lays the foundation for solutions to those problems.

Collaboration Is Key for Green IT
In this chapter John Lamb describes how to continue collaboration among groups within your company to achieve global green IT success.

Article by Douglas Alger, author of Grow a Greener Data Center: A guide to building and operating energy-efficient, ecologically sensitive server environments, Rough Cuts

Top 10 Questions to Ask To Find a Great, Green Data Center Site
Douglas Alger provides 10 questions to ask about property being considered for your next data center that can help you choose a suitable site and put you on your way to a productive, green server environment.

Article by K.J. McCorry, the president and founder of Officiency, Inc., a professional productivity and efficiency consulting company. McCorry also serves on the board of the Colorado Sustainable and Environmental Business Association.

Becoming the Paperless Office
K.J. McCorry outlines the complexities of eliminating paper in the workplace.

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An Excellent Manual for Self Study CCDP Aspirers, for 642-873 ARCH exam

Recently I had the opportunity to read the rough cut edition of the book “Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH) (Authorized Self-Study Guide), Second Edition”, ISBN 9781587058431, thanks to Pearson Education and Safari Online  for offering  an access the rough cut.

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By Keith Hutton, Mark Schofield, Diane Teare.

Published by Cisco Press.

Series: Self-Study Guide.

ISBN-10: 1-58705-574-0; ISBN-13: 978-1-58705-574-4; Published: Dec 24, 2008; Copyright 2009;

“Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH) (Authorized Self-Study Guide), Second Edition”

Rating *****

I would strongly recommend this book for the Cisco CCDP certification aspirers. Since I am working on the latest Network Upgrade plan it helped me a lot to understand the design considerations, Cisco Design Standards.  Based on this book I could able to come out with an excellent Network Design for the Organization which I am working. This manual is good to the pass the Cisco 642-873 ARCH exam.

The topics are covered in detail and extensive, the best part of this book happens to be the organization of the chapters; there are 12 chapters in this book. This deals with the topics like SONA, Enterprise Campus Network Design, Enterprise Data Design, SAN Design Considerations etc.

One more interesting fact which helps is the reference segment at the end of each chapter. If someone wants to achieve his CCDP this is the book, you should go for it.  This is the right manual which can be used as a Study guide to achieve CCDP. Also this manual proves to be a helpful guide for reference.