Day: December 4, 2012

Title: Juniper Networks Warrior
By: Peter Southwick
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: November 2012
Ebook: November 2012
Pages: 432
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-1663-1| ISBN 10:1-4493-1663-8
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-1662-4| ISBN 10:1-4493-1662-X

In this practical book, Juniper Networks consulting senior network engineer, Peter Southwick, offers unique first-person field studies on designing, configuring, and troubleshooting new systems that are changing the networking world. Each chapter-long “travelogue” follows a team of Juniper Networks warriors as they solve specific needs with emerging network platform architectures.

In these case studies, Southwick and his fellow warriors analyze a client’s particular situation, arrive at an architectural solution, and work through the deployment details. For anyone who operates, installs, designs, or works in IT, this book provides an intimate and entertaining look at what’s changing and why.

Among the case studies, you’ll discover how:

• A service provider protected customers from malicious traffic with Juniper Networks IDP systems
• SRX5800s improved connectivity and security in a data center
• Ethernet WAN technology was chosen as a storage solution, rather than a proprietary design on dark fiber
• An enterprise severed communications between different departments to comply with government personal credit card standards
• Core network and edge devices helped a power company serve local customers and ISPs in the data services market
• A hosting company migrated its core, datacenter, edge, and access domains to a state-of-the-art network

“In this uniquely written book, you will get a detailed view of life in the data center, the edge, the core, and the office of the customer’s CIO.”
Steve Fazio, CEO, TorreyPoint

Peter Southwick

Peter Southwick is a Senior Network Engineer at Proteus Networks, providing both professional services support and training for Proteus Networks customers. He is a JNCI, holds JNCIE-M #473 and other Juniper certifications in routing and security. He is an author of Telecommunications: a Beginners Guide, co-author of ISDN: Concepts, Facilities and Services (both published by McGraw Hill), and contributing author to The Handbook of Local Area Networks (CRC Press).

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Title: Windows Server 2012: Up and Running
By: Samara Lynn
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: December 2012 (est.)
Ebook: November 2012
Pages: 258 (est.)
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-2075-1| ISBN 10:1-4493-2075-9
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-2074-4| ISBN 10:1-4493-2074-0

If your organization plans to move to a cloud infrastructure from a LAN or WAN, this book shows you how to do it efficiently with Windows Server 2012. Experienced Windows administrators will learn how to deploy, configure, and manage the server’s expanded capabilities and features step-by-step, using clear examples and numerous screen shots. You’ll also discover how to integrate employees’ private mobile devices into your corporate network.

Whether you intend to take your infrastructure to a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment, Windows Server 2012 provides the virtualization technology to get you there. This book helps you put it to work.

• Control your entire Windows infrastructure from the Server Manager console
• Learn how Active Directory Domain Services provide more centralized network administration
• Use Dynamic Access Control to manage data and user permissions
• Provide data integrity and fault tolerance with Storage Spaces and ReFS
• Gain robust management of virtual environments with Hyper V R3
• Master networking tools such as IPAM to help you move to the cloud
• Connect clients to network resources through Unified Remote Access

Samara Lynn

Samara Lynn has over fifteen years experience in Information Technology; most recent as IT Director at a major New York City healthcare facility. She is a Lead Networking and Business Analyst at PCMag.com. She has several technology certifications, a Bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College and was a Technology Editor for the CRN Test Center.

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Title: Monitoring with Ganglia
By: Matt Massie, Bernard Li, Brad Nicholes, Vladimir Vuksan
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: November 2012
Ebook: November 2012
Pages: 256
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-2970-9| ISBN 10:1-4493-2970-5
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-2969-3| ISBN 10:1-4493-2969-1

Written by Ganglia designers and maintainers, this book shows you how to collect and visualize metrics from clusters, grids, and cloud infrastructures at any scale. Want to track CPU utilization from 20,000 hosts every ten seconds? Ganglia is just the tool you need, once you know how its main components work together. This hands-on book helps experienced system administrators take advantage of Ganglia 3.x.

Learn how to extend the base set of metrics you collect, fetch current values, see aggregate views of metrics, and observe time-series trends in your data. You’ll also examine real-world case studies of Ganglia installs that feature challenging monitoring requirements.

• Determine whether Ganglia is a good fit for your environment
• Learn how Ganglia’s gmond and gmetad daemons build a metric collection overlay
• Plan for scalability early in your Ganglia deployment, with valuable tips and advice
• Take data visualization to a new level with gweb, Ganglia’s web frontend
• Write plugins to extend gmond’s metric-collection capability
• Troubleshoot issues you may encounter with a Ganglia installation
• Integrate Ganglia with the sFlow and Nagios monitoring systems

Matt Massie

Matt Massie open-sourced Ganglia in 2000 while working as a Staff Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He designed ganglia to monitor a shared computational grid of clusters distributed across the United States for scientific research. In 2010, he contributed a chapter on cluster monitoring for the O’Reilly book “Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time” by John Allspaw and Jesse Robbins. Matt is currently a software engineer at Cloudera focused on Apache Hadoop enterprise management and monitoring.

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Bernard Li

Bernard Li is a High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is currently one of the maintainers of the Ganglia project. He has been involved with HPC since 2003 and has worked on Open Source projects such as OSCAR, SystemImager and Warewulf.

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Brad Nicholes

Brad Nicholes is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and is currently working as a Consultant Software Engineer for NetIQ. In addition to being a committer on the Apache HTTPD and APR projects, Brad is also a developer as well as one of the administrators of the Ganglia project. As a developer on the Ganglia project, Brad developed and introduced the C/C++ and Python metric module interface into Gangla 3.1.x. He also developed and contributed several of the initial metric modules that currently ship with Ganglia. Brad attended school at the University of Utah and Brigham Young University and holds a degree in Computer Science.

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Vladimir Vuksan

Vladimir Vuksan (Broadcom) has worked in technical operations, systems engineering and software development for over 15 years. Prior to Broadcom he has worked at Mocospace, Rave Mobile Safety, Demandware, University of New Mexico implementing high availability solutions and building tools to make managing and running infrastructure easier.

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Title: Building Web, Cloud, and Mobile Solutions with F#
By: Daniel Mohl
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: December 2012
Ebook: November 2012
Pages: 176
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-3376-8| ISBN 10:1-4493-3376-1
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-3371-3| ISBN 10:1-4493-3371-0

Learn how to build key aspects of web, cloud, and mobile solutions by combining F# with various .NET and open source technologies. With helpful examples, this hands-on book shows you how to tackle concurrency, asynchrony, and other server-side challenges. You’ll quickly learn how to be productive with F#, whether you want to integrate the language into your existing web application or use it to create the next Twitter.

If you’re a mid- to senior-level .NET programmer, you’ll discover how this expressive functional-first language helps you write robust, maintainable, and reusable solutions that scale easily and target multiple devices.

• Use F# with ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, WCF, Windows Azure, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery Mobile, and other tools
• Build next-generation ASP.NET MVC 4 web applications, using F# to do the heavy lifting on the server
• Create WCF SOAP and HTTP web services
• Develop F# web applications and services that run on Windows Azure
• Build scalable solutions that allow reuse by mobile and web front-ends
• Use F# with the WebSharper and Pit frameworks to build end-to-end web stacks

Daniel Mohl

Daniel Mohl is a Microsoft F# MVP, F# and C# Insider, blogger, speaker, and event organizer. He blogs at blog.danielmohl.com and you can follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/dmohl.

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Title: PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
By: Brett McLaughlin
Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Pogue Press
Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
Print: November 2012
Ebook: November 2012
Pages: 546
Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-2557-2| ISBN 10:1-4493-2557-2
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-5553-1| ISBN 10:1-4493-5553-6

If you can build websites with CSS and JavaScript, this book takes you to the next level—creating dynamic, database-driven websites with PHP and MySQL. Learn how to build a database, manage your content, and interact with users. With step-by-step tutorials, this completely revised edition gets you started with expanded coverage of the basics and takes you deeper into the world of server-side programming.

The important stuff you need to know:

• Get up to speed quickly. Learn how to install PHP and MySQL, and get them running on both your computer and a remote server.
• Gain new techniques. Take advantage of the all-new chapter on integrating PHP with HTML web pages.
• Manage your content. Use the file system to access user data, including images and other binary files.
• Make it dynamic. Create pages that change with each new viewing.
• Build a good database. Use MySQL to store user information and other data.
• Keep your site working. Master the tools for fixing things that go wrong.
• Control operations. Create an administrative interface to oversee your site.

Brett McLaughlin

Brett McLaughlin is a bestselling and award-winning non-fiction author. His books on computer programming, home theater, and analysis and design have sold in excess of 100,000 copies. He has been writing, editing, and producing technical books for nearly a decade, and is as comfortable in front of a word processor as he is behind a guitar, chasing his two sons and his daughter around the house, or laughing at reruns of Arrested Development with his wife.

Brett spends most of his time these days on cognitive theory, codifying and expanding on the learning principles that shaped the Head First series into a bestselling phenomenon. He’s curious about how humans best learn, why Star Wars was so formulaic and still so successful, and is adamant that a good video game is the most effective learning paradigm we have.

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