Infrastructure & Operations Books

Providing an overview of every phase of administering an application, this book offers detailed, hands-on instructions on how to perform many specific tasks that an application administrator must be able to handle.

By Kelly C. Bourne

Using an approachable, conversational style, this book explains the basic ideas of programmable computing, then systematically treats the x86 instruction set, memory addressing, procedures, macros, and interface to the C-language code libraries.

By Jeff Duntemann

A comprehensive manual and reference to ThMAD, describing all 200+ modules, this book provides a combination of a hands-on tutorial, manual, and reference, with many illustrations that accompany the explanations and tutorials.

By Peter Späth

With case studies covering different business scenarios, this book will discuss different SharePoint Online approaches that you can use to enhance customer experience, including digital portals, enterprise content management, Microsoft Teams, and much more.

By Charles Waghmare

Focusing on everyday and frequently performed tasks, this indispensable guide will help you fully grasp how the new Active Directory module for PowerShell provides command-line scripting for administrative, configuration, and diagnostic tasks.

By Ken St. Cyr, Laura E. Hunter

Focusing on how to make the system administrator's job easier and more efficient, this book uses real-world environments, examples and best practices to explain the technology to automate repetitive tasks and the methodology to automate successfully.

By Kirk Bauer, Nate Campi

Using screen shots and helpful exercises, this practical book walks you through the many benefits of automating Windows Server with PowerShell 2.0, such as allowing for scalable, flexible, and rapid deployments and changes; increasing cost effectiveness; lowering labor headcount, and much more.

By Matthew Hester, Sarah Dutkiewicz

Packed with step-by-step instructions, real-world examples, and best practice recommendations, this book gets you thoroughly up to speed on Windows PowerShell 2.0 features and SharePoint's PowerShell implementation, saving you time and effort on tasks you do every day.

By Gary Lapointe, Shannon Bray

This book focuses on automating the tedious daily tasks of system administration. It provides real-world examples and explores the tools useful for managing 2 or 5,000 systems.

By Kirk Bauer

Presenting a core set of tools for the open source programmer, this book begins with an overview of high-level concepts; then tackles more advanced topics, like using the M4 macro processor with Autoconf, extending the Automake framework, and building Java and C# sources.

By John Calcote

Aimed at a reader relatively new to working in a bash environment, this book is designed to introduce readers to an assortment of useful command-line utilities that can be combined to create simple, yet powerful shell scripts.

By Oswald Campesato

Showing you how to use the Bash command-line interface and how to employ Bash's programming abilities, this book provides complete examples that illustrate each aspect with colorized source code and full-color screenshots that depict the actual output.

By Mike McGrath

Examining the concepts of web development, the parts of Seam, and various examples using Seam, this guide features a functioning, in-depth demonstration so you can better learn how to use Seam.

By Joseph Faisal Nusairat

Through the use of detailed and realistic examples, this authoritative guide teaches students to move from being a Linux beginner to creating custom applications in Linux.

By Neil Matthew, Richard Stones

Teaching you how to leverage modern Unix even if you've never worked with it before, this book presents everything in conceptual terms that you can understand, rather than tips to be committed raw to memory.

By Manish Jain

Teaching shell scripting by using the common core of most shells and expanding those principles to all of scripting, this book explains portable scripting and shows how to use the same syntax and design principles for all shells.

By Peter Seebach

Introducing PowerShell fundamentals and operations in the context of deploying, migrating, managing, and monitoring SharePoint 2013, this book features copious real-world examples and scripts to automate interactions with the various pieces and components of the SharePoint 2013 platform.

By Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade

Explaining the fundamental concepts behind the PowerShell language, this book uses real-world examples and scripts to introduce PowerShell operations in the context of deploying, migrating, managing, and monitoring SharePoint 2016.

By John Edward Naguib, Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade

Offering several references and tips for smart add-ons and utilities that will enhance the functionality of SharePoint, this book includes easy-to-follow instructions that will help you get your SharePoint environment up and running in no time.

By Göran Husman

Authored by a four-time SharePoint MVP, this complete guide shows you how to take advantage of all SharePoint 2010's many improvements, and how SharePoint 2010 differs from previous versions.

By Christian Ståhl, Göran Husman

Written by a team of expert authors, led by Microsoft's Steve Fox, this practical guide touches on everything from developing applications using Office services to development workflow applications, covering everything you need to know to start confidently working with SharePoint 2013 today.

By Chris Johnson, Donovan Follette, Steve Fox

Offering up-to-date content on working with lists, libraries, workflow, content types, and web parts, this guide presents real-world scenarios which address critical information management problems, and detailed descriptions that explain how to efficiently, successfully handle these challenges.

By Amanda Perran, Jennifer Mason, Laura Rogers, Shane Perran

Providing step-by-step details on how to perform common real-world administrative procedures such as backup and restore, security configuration, and troubleshooting, this book will help you get your SharePoint environment up and running in no time.

By Göran Husman

Covering both the design and business applications of SharePoint Designer, this complete Wrox guide brings readers thoroughly up to speed on how to use SharePoint Designer in an enterprise.

By Asif Rehmani, Bryan Phillips, Marcy Kellar, Woodrow W. Windischman

Whether you are working on Mac OS X, Linux, Unix, or Windows, this book presents complete shell scripting instructions, robust code examples, and full scripts for customizing your operating systems.

By Eric Foster-Johnson, John C. Welch, Micah Anderson

By teaching the web standards and fundamentals specific to smartphones and other feature-driven mobile phones and devices, this book offers the training, tools, and techniques for creating robust mobile web experiences.

By Gail Frederick, Rajesh Lal

Designed for Linux newcomers, this book will teach you how to get your system up and running, including verifying proper installation, connecting to the Internet, and reproducing common Windows tasks, such as multimedia playback and office functions.

By Keir Thomas

Following a task-oriented approach, this hands-on guide will show you how to work with files and directories, administer users and security, and understand how Linux is organized.

By Sander van Vugt

Following a task-oriented approach, this hands-on guide will show you how to work with files and directories, administer users and security, and understand how Linux is organized.

By Sander van Vugt

If you've been afraid to try Ubuntu because you don't know where to start, this comprehensive guide will show you how to get the most out of Ubuntu for work, home, and play, and will introduce you to a wide selection of software and settings that will make your computer ready to work for you.

By Nathan Haines

If you've been afraid to try Ubuntu because you don't know where to start, this book introduces you to a wide selection of software and settings that will make your computer ready to work for you.

By Nathan Haines

This book is a friendly guide to installing and running Ubuntu for people who are already efficient and happy with Windows or macOS computers.

By Nathan Haines

Introducing the most recent server edition of Ubuntu Linux to power users, system administrators, and programmers, this book includes many useful tips that help you do your work in a more efficient manner.

By Sander van Vugt

With coverage of Unix basics for Mac OS X, Linux, Sun Solaris and BSD, this thorough text will prepare you to to learn to manage processes, handle security, automate tasks with shell scripting in Perl, install Unix programs, and back up your data.

By Paul Love, et al.

Whether you are new to Windows, or you want to get up to speed with the latest features and changes, this book shows you how to create an environment for school, work, and play that puts the important things at your fingertips, while combining them in ways you never thought possible.

By Mike Halsey

From tips and tweaks to easy-to-follow, detailed descriptions, this guide takes you beyond the routine and the familiar to reveal the hidden power behind this amazing new operating system.

By Mike Halsey

The increasing use of personal devices such as smartphones and tablets in the workplace is offering an opportunity as well as a challenge for organisations, particularly the IT department. This book examines ways to embrace the benefits, while offering advice on how to minimise the risks.

By BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

Examining the business aspects of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) psycho-techno phenomenon, this book covers the broad range of technical considerations including selection, connectivity, training, support, and security, and includes an extensive set of best practices.

By Jessica Keyes

Teaching you to use BSD UNIX systems as the experts do - from the command line, this handy, compact guide allows you to try out more than 1,000 commands to find and get software, monitor system health and security, and access network resources.

By Christopher Negus, François Caen

If you're a small business owner looking for a reliable email server, a curious Windows administrator, or if you just want to put that old computer in the closet to work, this book will show you how to get your server up and running quickly.

By Bryan J. Hong

A step-by-step guide to building your own SharePoint farm in a home lab setting, this thorough resource will teach you how to build a windows domain and then join servers into the domain in order to create your own testing and learning environment.

By Stacy Simpkins

Learn to write better PowerShell code via short, example-driven tips. This book covers tips to make your PowerShell scripts faster and easier to read all while following proven best practices.

By Adam Bertram

This reference functions as a set of instructions for actual SAN implementation and teaches how a well-crafted SAN can reward your organization.

By Benjamin Kuo, Chris Beauchamp, Josh Judd

Using tools available to all developers, this book will show you how to rebuild a SharePoint site, taking it all the way from the default out-of-the-box experience to your very own customized user experience.

By Bjørn Christoffer Thorsmæhlum Furuknap

Presenting case studies in several business areas, along with a review of high availability and information security in healthcare IT, this expert guide gives you the most up-to-date planning and risk management techniques for business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR).

By Chris Rima, Susan Snedaker

Taking a practical approach, with step-by-step instructions for business process management, model creation, and implementation, this book uses a typical BPM project lifecycle case study to explore and explain the process in a realistic situation.

By Matt Cumberlidge

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Jean Andrews

Featuring nine minibooks in one comprehensive volume, this book focuses individually on specific hardware and OS characteristics including installation and configuration, diagnostics, preventive maintenance, motherboard and processors, printers, networking, and fundamentals.

By Ed Tetz, Glen E. Clarke

Taking you step by step through the tasks a PC technician is likely to face on any given day, this hands-on manual incorporates various roadblocks that may occur on the job and explains ways to successfully complete the task at hand.

By James Pyles

Through 1,200+ expertly crafted practice questions, this in-depth study guide provides 100% coverage of all exam objectives and gives you the thorough preparation you need to approach the exams with confidence.

By Steven Suehring

CompTIA Linux+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition (Exam XK0-005) offers complete coverage of every topic on the test and features more than 180 accurate practice questions.

By Sandor Strohmayer, Ted Jordan

Providing learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice exam questions, and in-depth answer explanations, this definitive volume is designed to help you pass these challenging exams and also serves as an essential on-the-job reference.

By Sandor Strohmayer, Ted Jordan

Providing the insight of examples drawn from real-world scenarios with detailed guidance and authoritative coverage of key topics, this comprehensive study guide provides clear, concise information on all aspects of Linux administration, with a focus on the latest version of the exam.

By Christine Bresnahan, Richard Blum

Covering the 5 objective domains, plus one additional 90-question practice exam, for a total of 1,000 test questions, this study guide will help you prepare for the exam and the types of knowledge needed to demonstrate that you can work with Linux systems.

By Steven Suehring

In the newly updated Third Edition of CompTIA Linux+ Practice Tests: Exam XK0-005, veteran Linux expert, Steve Suehring, delivers an instructive set of practice questions written to get you ready to ace the new XK0-005 test.

By Steve Suehring

This book is your one-stop resource for complete coverage of Exam XK0-004, covering 100% of all exam objectives.

By Christine Bresnahan

Providing 100% coverage of the new Linux+ Exam XK0-004 objectives, this one-stop resource contains clear and concise information on all Linux administration topic, and includes practical examples and insights drawn from real-world experience.

By Christine Bresnahan, Richard Blum

In the newly updated Fifth Edition of CompTIA Linux+ Study Guide: Exam XK0-005, IT industry veterans and tech education gurus Richard Blum and Christine Bresnahan deliver a concise and practical blueprint to success on the CompTIA Linux+ exam and in your first role as a Linux network or system administrator.

By Christine Bresnahan, Richard Blum

Including challenging review questions, hands-on exercises, and real-world scenarios that put the information in the context of real job roles, this thorough guide is what you need for top-notch preparation for the CompTIA Linux+ Powered by LPI certification exams.

By Roderick W. Smith

This comprehensive guide is designed to help you prepare for and pass the CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 certification exam.

By Philip Inshanally

Offering complete coverage of every topic on the latest version of the exam, this book provides in-depth explanations of the latest server types and components, virtualization, IPv4 and IPv6 networking, cloud computing, security, troubleshooting, and more.

By Daniel Lachance

In this book you'll learn how to implement server-based hardware and software.

By Daniel Lachance

This Study Guide provides you with a solid understanding of how network and cloud storage systems work by helping you learn how to store, protect, and access the data that's ever more crucial to modern businesses.

By Troy McMillan

Including examples highlighting the latest processor designs, benchmarking standards, languages and tools, this book focuses on the revolutionary change taking place in industry today: the switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors.

By David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy

Including examples, diagrams, and case studies throughout, this book explains the basic concept of computer storage along with its fundamental features and functionalities.

By Susanta Dutta

Authored by EMC Proven Professionals, Knowledge Sharing articles present ideas, expertise, unique deployments, and best practices. This article provides Implementers and Solution Architects with rules, ideas, and recommendations to arrive at the "adequate" configuration in a new VNX.

By Octavio Guerra M.

A clear tutorial for deploying container-based systems on CoreOS Container Linux, this book provides examples that teach you to set up CoreOS on both private and cloud systems, and will help you to practice common sense monitoring and upgrade techniques with real code.

By Matt Bailey

Consisting of case studies for each application implementation, this book will help you create easier solutions to client-side problems and applications. Additionally, you will be able to effectively visualize your data with Power BI.

By Jeffrey M. Rhodes

Whatever your background, whether it's web development, working with SharePoint on the server side, or if you're a SharePoint user looking to learn new skills, this guide shows you how to build and customize SharePoint solutions to suit a wide range of business needs.

By Brandon Atkinson

Learn about the Linux kernel and how a Linux programmer can work with the kernel modules. Several code examples are included to explain programming concepts.

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A practical introduction to using flexible, powerful (and free) Unix / Linux shell commands to perform common data cleaning tasks, this book is packed with realistic examples and numerous commands that illustrate both the syntax and how the commands work together.

By Oswald Campesato

Teaching the commands, configuration setups, and best practices to use Debian productively, this comprehensive reference will guide you through the process of setting up, using, and administering a Debian GNU/Linux system.

By Benjamin Mako Hill, David B. Harris, Jaldhar Vyas

Authored by EMC Proven Professionals, Knowledge Sharing articles present ideas, expertise, unique deployments, and best practices. This article will help readers gain a comfort level about Avamar and will be able to use key concepts and features efficiently to solve their data protection challenges.

By Anay Pathak, Arunkamar Velumani

Written to be a reference for SharePoint Administrators and IT Professionals willing to learn how to deploy SharePoint Server 2016 in their organizations, this book explains how to install, configure, and maintain the latest release of Microsoft's popular SharePoint Server.

By Trevor Seward, Vlad Catrinescu

Update to a version of SharePoint that offers the best of both on-premise and the cloud using SharePoint 2019, the latest release of this cornerstone technology from Microsoft.

By Trevor Seward, Vlad Catrinescu

Whether you are a SharePoint architect, IT pro, or developer helping customers with the SharePoint platform, this book will teach you the most useful DevOps practices to tackle common issues and broaden your skill set.

By Ethan Schumann, Oscar Medina

Directed toward users with no experience in the digital forensics field, this hands-on book provides guidelines and best practices when conducting investigations as well as teaching you how to use a variety of tools to investigate computer crime.

By Nihad A. Hassan

IT failures can hinder your ability to deliver products and services, harm your company's reputation, and jeopardize customer relationships. This practical guide will show you how to create plan to keep your information safe, protect data from fire or floods, safeguard against viruses and phishing scams, and more.

By Thejendra B.S

Explaining exactly what you need to do to set up and run a successful business continuity program, this thorough guide provides the tools, techniques, and templates that will make your life easier, give you peace of mind, and turn you into a local hero when disaster strikes.

By Jamie Watters

Serving as both a complete study guide for the EMC Proven Professional Exam E20-120 and a quick reference to the technical fundamentals of Documentum 6.5, this book will help you learn the technical fundamentals, develop insights, and ace the exam.

By Pawan Kumar

Covering best practices when working with Drools, this guide starts with an introduction to a problem and continues with a discussion of the possible solution using plenty of code listings and figures to provide a better view.

By Michal Bali

Discover what the Common Data Service is and how Dynamics 365 fits in the Power Platform. Learn how to set up core Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement functionality and build more customized processes using model-driven apps.

By Sarah Critchley

Configure and customize Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Services to help your organization deliver onsite service to customer locations. This book will guide you in setting up and implementing these services to automate workflow and schedule algorithms for mobile users.

By Indika Abayarathne, Sanjaya Yapa

Detailing all of the essential theory and facts to help an engineer design a robust embedded system, this hard-working reference will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and rules of thumb.

By Jack Ganssle, et al.

Authored by EMC Proven Professionals, Knowledge Sharing articles present ideas, expertise, unique deployments, and best practices. This article explains the various aspects involved in evaluating the health of a Data Domain system, improving the understanding of how to keep track of the technology's efficiency.

By Erico Correia da Silva

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Chuck Easttom, Serge Palladino

Illustrating the techniques using photography and screen prints throughout, this concise, step-by-step book presents the essentials of using a desktop or laptop running Windows 8 or 8.1, providing a fast read for the beginner and the enthusiast.

By Kevin Wilson

Targeting the needs of cyber security practitioners who focus on digital forensics and incident response, this book leads readers through the importance of Windows CLI, as well as optimal configuration and usage before they learn the importance of maintaining evidentiary integrity, evidence volatility, and gain appropriate insight into methodologies that limit the potential of inadvertently destroying or otherwise altering evidence.

By Chet Hosmer, Joshua Bartolomie, Rosanne Pelli

Showing you how to make the most of Skype's full range of features on any device, this essential guide presents tips and tricks for saving time, saving money, and fostering better communication at work or in your personal projects.

By Jim Courtney

This book is intended for System Managers, System Administrators, Network Administrators, Server Administrators, System Engineers, and others interested in becoming professional Linux Administrators. No prerequisite knowledge is required, as the book covers everything clearly and precisely.

By Vishal Rai

Packed with unique tools, code snippets, and scripts, this guide is a great resource for all working Linux, Unix, and OS X system administrators who would like to have short, succinct, and powerful shell implementations of tricky system scripting tasks.

By Ron Peters

Beginning with a foundational primer on essential skills, and then gradually moving into communication, control, and advanced applications using C/C++, this book is a hands-on guide to bringing gadgets, gizmos, and robots to life using the popular BeagleBone embedded Linux platform.

By Derek Molloy

Reflecting the real-world challenges faced by designers of fault-tolerant systems, this up-to-date book addresses fault tolerance design with a systems approach to both hardware and software.

By C. Mani Krishna, Israel Koren

Offering an ideal companion resource for both new and advanced Linux users, this book presents clear, thorough instructions so you can learn how to make Linux installation simple and painless, take advantage of the desktop interface, and much more.

By Christopher Negus, Eric Foster-Johnson

Whether you're new to Linux or an advanced user, this power-packed guide is loaded with what you need to know to polish your system administration skills and get up to speed on the very latest in networking, desktop, and server enhancements.

By Christopher Negus, Eric Foster-Johnson

From simple desktops to Internet servers, this guide shows you how to install, configure, and administer Fedora systems. After learning the new features of Fedora 13 and 14, you'll be up to speed and more productive in no time.

By Christopher Negus, Eric Foster-Johnson

Foundations of ARM64 Linux Debugging, Disassembling, and Reversing is the perfect companion to Foundations of Linux Debugging, Disassembling, and Reversing for readers interested in the cloud or cybersecurity.

By Dmitry Vostokov

By teaching you CentOS Linux, the most powerful and popular of all Red Hat clones, this guide will allow you to maintain your network at work, and prepare you for the RHCE examination.

By Chivas Sicam, John Newbigin, Peter Membrey, Ryan Baclit

This book provides the back­ground knowledge and practical foundations you'll need in order to master internal Linux program structure and behavior. It consists of practical step-by-step exercises of increasing complexity with explanations and ample diagrams.

By Dmitry Vostokov

Presenting a crash course in the different FreeBSD driver frameworks, this guide will teach you how to master everything from the basics of building and running loadable kernel modules to more complicated topics like thread synchronization.

By Joseph Kong

Novices can use this hands-on guide to learn the "Unix way," while power users can learn why and how to switch to Zsh. In between, users of all levels of skill can find hints, recipes, and suggestions to enhance and improve their skills.

By Jerry Peek, Oliver Kiddle, Peter Stephenson

Supplying an end-to-end understanding of telecom management layers, this complete guide provides you with the fundamental understanding and the tools required to begin developing telecom management solutions tailored to your customer's needs.

By Jithesh Sathyan

A practical introduction to OpenVMS terminology and approach to common concepts.

By Michael D. Duffy

SharePoint Framework is the new option for developing SharePoint solutions. In this book, you will learn the basic concepts of SharePoint Framework, how you can create modern solutions using modern open-source toolchain and JavaScript frameworks.

By Vipul Jain

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By M. Tim Jones

Helping you get up to speed on the latest Group Policy tools, techniques, and best practices, this is your complete guide to the latest Group Policy features and functions for all modern Windows clients and servers so you can manage more efficiently and effectively.

By Jeremy Moskowitz

Specifically targeting professionals and students who would like to learn Assembly and intend or expect to move to the Linux operating system, this book instructs users on how to install Linux on existing Windows machines.

By Sivarama P. Dandamudi

Master the booting procedure of various operating systems with in-depth analysis of bootloaders and firmware. The primary focus of this book is on the Linux booting procedure along with other popular operating systems such as Windows and Unix.

By Yogesh Babar

This book is best suited for DevOps Engineers and DevOps professionals who want to make best use of Linux commands in managing the DevOps infrastructure daily. It is a good handy guide for Linux administrators and system administrators too to get familiar with the use of Linux in Devops and advance their skillset in DevOps.

By Alisson Machado de Menezes

Written for those responsible for protecting computers that run on Linux, this is a technical guide to hardening and securing Linux hosts and some of the common applications used on Linux hosts.

By James Turnbull

Presenting requirements, concepts, and realizations of redundant systems on all abstraction levels, this book explains the advantages of high availability and disaster recovery to fulfill business continuity requirements.

By Klaus Schmidt

Making the concepts behind Linux internals accessible to anyone curious about the inner workings of the operating system, this complete guide will teach you what you need to know to solve pesky problems and take control of your operating system.

By Brian Ward

In this third edition of the bestselling How Linux Works, author Brian Ward peels back the layers of this well-loved operating system to make Linux internals accessible.

By Brian Ward

Examining the intricate logic behind the technologies you constantly use but never understood, this easy-to-understand book breaks down the processes with patient explanations and intuitive diagrams so that anyone can understand.

By V. Anton Spraul

Emphasizing best-practice security measures, this guide covers the major new release of IIS 7 and provides the multi-tasked System Administrator with the essential information needed to perform the daily tasks.

By Chris Adams (ed)

Using a best practices approach to provide busy managers with clear, succinct instructions, this valuable text helps Windows administrators accomplish tasks with the command-line utilities included with the operating system.

By Pawan K. Bhardwaj

Including 863 exam review questions with answers, this guide will help readers understand implementation procedures, learn command syntax, configuration files and daemons, and understand basic troubleshooting of UNIX, HP-UX System Administration and HP-UX Network Administration.

By Asghar Ghori

Explaining how to deploy and support Hyper-V, this hands-on book starts with the basics and then builds on those concepts throughout, while walking you through the migration process in a step-by-step manner.

By Brien Posey

This book teaches you everything you need to know to test and adopt the technology at your organization that is widely deployed around the world.

By Richard M. Hicks

This book is for those who wish to better understand how this came to be. It explores the technological bases of computers, networks, software and data management, leading to the development of four "pillars" on which the essential applications that have a strong impact.

By Jean-Loic Delhaye

Beginning with an introduction to computer networks and Windows Server 2022, this book takes you through the initial stages of installing and configuring Windows Server 2022. It then covers the post-installation activities that must be performed within the Windows Server 2022 framework.

By Bekim Dauti

Helping researchers successfully plan and conduct Internet, mail, and telephone surveys, this book presents a succinct and thorough review of survey research methods, equipping you to increase the validity and reliability, as well as response rates, of your surveys.

By Don A. Dillman, Jolene D. Smyth, Leah Melani Christian

Linux offers us a wonderful open source alternative to proprietary software, and using this authoritative resource, you can decide how to best make it work for you. Start exploring the open source world today.

By Jose Dieguez Castro

Teaching you the basics of do-it-yourself ZFS storage on Linux, this book delivers explanations of key features and provides best practices for planning, creating and sharing your storage.

By Damian Wojsław

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Christopher Diaz

Aimed at aspiring IT professionals, this invaluable book strips down a network to its bare basics, and discusses this complex topic in a clear and concise manner so that IT beginners can confidently gain an understanding of fundamental IT concepts.

By Joey Alpern, Naomi J. Alpern, Randy Muller

Focusing on disaster recovery planning as it relates to IT systems and IT users, this book discusses the necessary steps to plan for and prepare your systems, processes, and people for an organized response to a disaster when it strikes.

By Peter Gregory

Regardless of the size of your business, this book will teach you how to specify business rules that trigger actions and decisions using JBoss Drools, and put them into action in your business.

By Paul Browne

Through screenshots, examples, and source code, this book will reduce the time you spend on developing a Java application by exploring tools to help you build Hibernate, Seam, JSF, Struts, Web Services, jBPM, ESB, and more.

By Anghel Leonard

This book is a comprehensive guide for anyone aspiring to become a penetration tester or ethical hacker using Kali Linux.

By Mohamed Atef

In this book you'll discover everything you need to know about the tools and techniques hackers use to gain access to systems like yours so you can erect reliable defenses for your virtual assets. Whether you're new to the field or an established pentester, you'll find what you need in this comprehensive guide.

By Gus Khawaja

Written in an easy-to-digest format, this book will show you how to install CentOS, manage basic administration, how to set up your required services, and how to manage, and troubleshoot each service.

By Antonio Vazquez

This book shows you how to install and use Linux for all the things you do with your OS, like connecting to a network, installing software, and securing your system.

By Steven Ovadia

This amazing book guides you from your first command to writing and debugging reusable scripts for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

By Don Jones, James Petty, Jeffery Hicks, Travis Plunk, Tyler Leonhardt

Discover how scripting is different from command-line PowerShell, as you explore concrete hands-on examples in this handy guide.

By Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks

Automate complex tasks and processes with PowerShell scripts. This amazing book teaches you how to write, test, and organize high-quality, reusable scripts for Windows, Linux, and cloud-based systems.

By Don Jones, James Petty, Jeffery Hicks

A super-practical guide to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, this handy tutorial cuts to the chase and shows you the administrative procedures and techniques that will keep your systems humming smoothly.

By James Bannan

An innovative tutorial designed for administrators, this book will have you - in just one hour a day for a month - automating Windows tasks faster than you ever thought possible.

By Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks

An innovative tutorial designed for busy IT professionals, this book will have you be automating Windows tasks faster than you ever thought possible.

By Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks

Including keywords, definitions, new features, setup, and use cases, this book will help you become productive with seamless interoperability between Windows and the Linux subsystem, and understand the problems that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) solves.

By Prateek Singh

Featuring clear explanations, step-by-step instructions, and real-world examples, this practical resource will help you to effectively set up and manage popular Linux distributions on individual servers and build entire network infrastructures.

By Wale Soyinka

Featuring clear explanations, step-by-step instructions, and real-world examples, this practical resource will show you how to effectively set up and manage any version of Linux on individual servers or entire networks.

By Wale Soyinka

Your one-stop guide to installing, administering, using, and programming Linux, this book answers all of your questions and shows you how to handle several of the most popular Linux distributions.

By Emmett Dulaney, Naba Barkakati

Whether you just want to learn more about the number-one open source operating system or you're studying for Level 1 Linux certification, this one-stop reference has everything you need.

By Emmett Dulaney

Written in the friendly and accessible For Dummies style, this handy guide explains everything you need to get up and running with the popular Linux operating system, such as interacting with Linux, networking issues, Internet services, administration, security, and much more.

By Emmett Dulaney

Presenting an example-based book on managing Oracle Databases under Linux and Solaris, this clear and reliable resource provides task-oriented coverage designed around the needs of the Oracle Database Administrator.

By Bernard Lopuz, Charles Kim, Darl Kuhn

Unlike so many books that focus on how to use Linux, this text explores why Linux is a superior implementation of Unix's highly capable operating system.

By Mike Gancarz

Authoritative answers to all your Apache questions--now updated to cover Apache 2.0.

By Charles Aulds

If you're getting started along the exciting path of hacking, cybersecurity, and pentesting, this practical, tutorial-style book uses the Kali Linux distribution to teach Linux basics with a focus on how hackers would use them.

By OccupyTheWeb

Great gateway to Linux guru-hood, starting from the very beginning.

By Candace Leiden, Terry Collings

Taking you step-by-step through what you need to know to get the job done, this ultimate hands-on Linux user guide provides the clear explanations and detailed instructions that demystify Linux and bring the new features seamlessly into your workflow.

By Christopher Negus

Whether you're a true beginner or a more advanced user navigating recent changes, this practical book is the one resource you need, and provides the hands-on training that gets you on track in a flash.

By Christopher Negus

Whether you're a novice or a Linux pro, this jam-packed, authoritative guide will show you how to to manage file systems, install software, write scripts for graphical desktops, work with alternative shells, and more.

By Christine Bresnahan, Richard Blum

With detailed instruction and abundant examples, this book teaches you how to bypass the graphical interface and communicate directly with your computer, saving time and expanding capability.

By Christine Bresnahan, Richard Blum

Get a novel perspective on Linux containers and understand the world of virtualization. This book takes you down the rabbit hole to discover what lies below the API.

By Shashank Mohan Jain

This book is a practical, comprehensive guide to creating secure and efficient Linux containers using the Rust programming language. It utilizes a hands-on approach to teach Rust's programming constructs, security features, and its application in containerization.

By Shashank Mohan Jain

With hands-on tutorials and end-of-chapter exercises, this book provides a solid foundation of knowledge for anyone considering a career in information technology, for anyone new to the Linux operating system, and for anyone who is preparing to sit for the Linux Essentials Exam.

By Christine Bresnahan, Richard Blum

Discussing the technical details of the iptables firewall and the Netfilter framework, this book explains how they provide strong filtering, NAT, state tracking, and application layer inspection capabilities that rival many commercial tools.

By Michael Rash

This book focuses on openSUSE and Ubuntu and includes new and refreshed material-as well as chapters on building a web server and creating simple shell scripts.

By Richard Blum

Written in easy-to-follow, everyday terms, this popular, accessible book shows you what you need to know to get a Linux desktop system installed, personalized, and working just for you!

By Richard Blum

Including an introduction to Android programming, this practical guide provides a hands-on resource for engineers and software developers who need to get up to speed quickly on embedded Linux, its operation and its capabilities.

By Doug Abbott

This book examines the use of Linux and also the other Free Open Source Software you need to meet your business challenges including the usual accounting, Email, web browsing, word-processing tasks.

By Cyndi Bulka, David Both

A task-based tutorial that will give you the skills and deep understanding you need to administer a Linux-based system, this hands-on book guides you through 12 real-world projects so you can practice as you learn.

By David Clinton

Opening the door to a whole new world of digital possibilities, this fully illustrated primer provides easy-to-understand tutorials teaching you to climb the Linux directory tree, navigate with the File Browser, and much more.

By Mike McGrath

This book explains the Linux environment and how to get more out of this stable, as well as free, operating system.

By Mike McGrath

Including code samples and commentary in each chapter to assist readers in understanding, this book keeps driver design explanations simple and allows readers to modify them to add more features, error handling, and bug fixing.

By Mohan Lal Jangir

With thorough explanations and quick references in each chapter, this detailed resource takes you on a guided in-depth tour of the current Linux networking implementation and the theory behind it.

By Rami Rosen

This book guides you through Linux Security Fundamentals covers all the IT security basics to help active and aspiring admins respond successfully to the modern threat landscape.

By David Clinton

Linux is the most popular operating system in the IT industry due to its security and performance. In this book, you will get familiar with the most important and advanced concepts of Linux server administration.

By Alberto Gonzalez

Providing the insight of experience along with highly practical instruction, this essential resource presents a detailed guide for experienced admins, aspiring hackers and other IT professionals seeking a more advanced understanding of Linux security.

By Chris Binnie

The goal of this book is to introduce readers to an assortment of powerful command line utilities that can be combined to create simple, yet powerful shell scripts.

By Oswald Campesato

Taking you through the layers of complexity involved in programming the Linux sound system, this practical, how-to guide will show you the large variety of tools and approaches that apply to almost every aspect of sound.

By Jan Newmarch

With Linux System Administration for the 2020s you'll learn how to spend less time doing sysadmin work and more time on tasks that push the boundaries of your knowledge.

By Kenneth Hitchcock

Taking a broad approach to scripting using Perl and bash, this book gives solutions to modern problems, such as scripting LDAP, making Mac clients play nice with Linux servers, and backup, security, and recovery scripts.

By Juliet Kemp

Authoritative answers to all your Linux questions.

By Roderick W. Smith, Vicki Stanfield

Linux system commands in a compact package.

By Kevin Reichard, Patrick Volkerding

Using Fedora Core Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux examples, this guide offers many step-by-step procedures and tools to resolve Linux hardware incompatibilities and system conflicts commonly found in workstation, server and networking environments.

By Christopher Negus, Thomas Weeks

Effectively analyzing large volumes of diverse logs can pose many challenges. This comprehensive book helps to simplify this complex process using practical guidance and real-world examples.

By Anton A. Chuvakin, Christopher Phillips, Kevin J. Schmidt

A valuable resource for anyone preparing to take the new Linux Essentials Exam, this accessible, user-friendly guide provides hands-on tutorials, real-world examples, color illustrations, and practical end-of-chapter exercises and review questions.

By Christine Bresnahan, Richard Blum

Pass the LPI Web Development Essentials exam and set yourself up for success at a new web development job

By Audrey O'Shea

A comprehensive, one-volume resource that covers 100% of all exam objectives, this essential resource offers a comprehensive suite of study and learning tools such as assessment tests, hands-on exercises, chapter review questions, and practical, real-world examples.

By Christine Bresnahan, Richard Blum

With 100% coverage of objectives for both LPI 101 and LPI 102, this authoritative book provides clear and concise information on all Linux administration topics and practical examples drawn from real-world experience.

By Christine Bresnahan, Richard Blum

With 1,000 practice questions, complete with answers and full explanations, this book is an essential resource for network and system administrators studying for the LPIC-1 exams and Linux administrators or IT professionals looking to update their skillset.

By Steven Suehring

Offering you thorough coverage of the new version of the leading Linux certification from Linux Professional Institute (LPI), this book covers both objectives and materials tested in the two required LPIC-1 exams: LPI 101 and LPI 102.

By Roderick W. Smith

Including learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice exam questions, and in-depth explanations, this comprehensive guide will help you prepare for - and pass - the LPIC-1 and CompTIA LXO-101 and LXO-102 exams.

By Robb Tracy

Providing a one-stop preparation resource for the Linux Professional Institute's Advanced Level certification exam, this guide provides clear and concise coverage of the Linux administration topics you need to know for exams 201 and 202.

By Christine Bresnahan, Richard Blum

Teaching you to use Mac OS X UNIX systems from the command line, this handy guide shows you more than 1,000 commands to find and get software, monitor system health and security, and access network resources.

By Christopher Negus, François Caen, Thomas Myer

The book is filled with clear explanations, visualizations, and working examples that get you up and running in your development of supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning techniques using Microsoft machine learning tools and technologies.

By Aurelien Clere, Vinnie Bansal

With checklists for specific tasks, case studies of difficult situations, and expert analyst tips, this compendium is designed to provide the digital investigator with clear and concise guidance in an easily accessible format for responding to an incident or conducting analysis in a lab.

By Cameron H. Malin, Eoghan Casey, James M. Aquilina

Close the gap between introductory and advanced resources available on SharePoint 2016 with this guide and identify the core benefits of specific techniques in a real-world context, including best practice scenarios.

By Heiko Angermann

Including examples and case studies that focus on offshoring, this thorough guide teaches executives and managers of organizations how to unleash the full potential of their outsourced IT services workforce and IT-enabled business processes safely and profitably.

By Venkatesh Upadrista

If you are responsible for the day-to-day operations of Active Directory, this comprehensive guide gives you the practical instruction, detailed explanations, and shortcuts you need to efficiently administer Active Directory on any server platform.

By Brad Price, John A. Price, Scott Fenstermacher

From navigating the new interface to adjusting settings entirely in XML to configuring IIS 7 for maximum security, this book covers the techniques, tricks, and basic instruction you need to take full advantage of IIS 7.

By John Paul Mueller

This book delivers a comprehensive roadmap to go from Linux beginner to expert Linux system administrator with a learning-by-doing approach. Organized by do-it-yourself tasks, the book includes instructor materials like a sample syllabus, additional review questions, and slide decks.

By Christine Bresnahan, Richard Blum

This book is perfect for CIOs, technology VPs, CFOs, Operations leaders, application directors, business analysts, ERP/CRM specialists, and project managers, Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Implementations is an indispensable and practical reference for guiding your real-world Dynamics 365 implementation from planning to completion.

By Eric Newell

Whether you're upgrading from Exchange Server 2007 SP1 or earlier, installing for the first time, or migrating from another system, this step-by-step guide provides the hands-on instruction, practical application, and real-world advice you need.

By David Elfassy, Jim McBee

Offering Windows systems administrators and consultants a complete tutorial and reference, this comprehensive guide covers every aspect of installing, configuring, and managing this multifaceted collaboration system.

By David Elfassy

Fully updated to align with the latest release of Exchange Server 2016, this expert-led guide provides comprehensive coverage and easy-to-follow tutorials for all aspects of Exchange Server installation, configuration, and management.

By Brian Svidergol, Byron Wright, Clifton Leonard, Vladimir Meloski

Packed with real-world exercises throughout, this unique resource encourages you to learn from the best practices to obtain the skills you need to effectively deploy Lync Server 2013 and be on your way to gaining all the benefits UC has to offer.

By Keith Hanna, Nathan Winters

Packed with insider tips, tricks, and real-world examples to support the instructions, this essential guide gets administrators up to speed quickly on SharePoint Foundation's features, installation procedures, and administration.

By Callahan

Walking you through industry best practices for planning, design, configuration, deployment, and management with clear instruction and plenty of hands-on exercises, as well as case studies which illustrate the real-world benefits of Unified Communication, this guide provides the answers you need and the insight that will make your job easier.

By Keith Hanna

Packed with real-world scenarios to show you how to use ConfigMgr in various contexts, this expert guide provides in-depth coverage and offers a hands-on approach to learning all there is to know about ConfigMgr.

By Kent Agerlund, Peter Daalmans, Santos Martinez, Steve Rachui

Explaining how this powerful server management tool can best be used to serve your organization's needs, this essential guide offers a hands-on approach by providing many real-world scenarios to clearly show you how to use the tool in various contexts.

By Bob Cornelissen, Ivan Hadzhiyski, Kevin Greene, Paul Keely, Sam Allen, Telmo Sampaio

Completely updated for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, this comprehensive book provides intermediate and advanced coverage of all aspects of the product, and provides numerous real-world scenarios to show you how to use the tool in various contexts.

By Brett Bennett, Peter Daalmans, Santos Martinez

Whether you're planning a new installation or migrating from a previous version of Configuration Manager, this practical, hands-on book provides clear instruction and expert insight to get the job done right.

By Brett Bennett, Peter Daalmans, Santos Martinez

If you're a systems administrator or IT manager handling a complex Windows Server network, this guide will help you centralize management of your IT infrastructure with SCCM 2007 R2 with step-by-step instruction.

By Chris Mosby, Christopher W. Urban, Ron Crumbaker

With clear explanations, in-depth instruction, and real-world scenarios, this practical guide gives you the information you need to deploy, manage, and maintain SCOM 2007, and use it to monitor your network.

By Brad Price, John Paul Mueller, Scott Fenstermacher

Written to help professionals decode the black art of selling complex, high-value products, this handbook is focused upon improving the methods and skills of those who engage in the technology side of the sales equation.

By Aron Bohlig, John Care

A handy UNIX administration guide that focuses on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris 8.

By Joe Merlino, Kate Wrightson

Learn how to solve real-world system admin problems with this collection of end-to-end shell scripts. This step-by-step text will teach you how to attack problems logically and empower you to turn basic command syntax into a shell scripting solution.

By Randal K. Michael

Guiding you through every detail of writing shell scripts to automate specific tasks, this book will help you build tools that monitor for specific system events and situations, and gain the skills to solve real-world system administration problems.

By Randall K. Michael

If you're a system administrator upgrading to, migrating to, or managing Windows Server 2012 R2, this complete resource will bring you up to speed on all of the new features and functions of Windows Server, and includes real-world scenarios to put them in perspective.

By Mark Minasi, et al.

The IT pro's must-read guide to Windows Server 2016, this book is a complete resource for IT professionals needing to get quickly up to date on the latest release.

By Brian Svidergol

Helping you turn greater capabilities into better datacenter solutions, this book shows you how to harness the power of this hypervisor to simplify the infrastructure, reduce costs, improve productivity, and better manage system resources.

By John Savill

In Mastering Windows Server 2022 with Azure Cloud Services: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, 5-time Microsoft MVP Winner William Panek delivers a comprehensive and practical blueprint for planning, implementing, and managing environments that include Azure IaaS-hosted Windows Server-based workloads.

By William Panek

Taking you under the hood of WSS 3.0, this point-by-point guide will show you how to easily share documents, track tasks, create common workspaces where teams can work collectively, set up surveys and discussion groups, and much more.

By C. A. Callahan

MCA Microsoft Certified Associate Azure Network Engineer Study Guide: Exam AZ-700 help you prepare for your certification exam, it takes a deep dive into the role and responsibilities of an Azure Network Engineer, so you can learn what to expect in your new career.

By Kathiravan Udayakumar, Puthiyavan Udayakumar

In MCA Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Complete Study Guide: Exam AZ-800 and Exam AZ-801, five-time Microsoft MVP and veteran IT trainer William Panek delivers a one-stop resource to help you efficiently prepare for and pass the required exams for Microsoft's latest Windows Server certification.

By William Panek

Covering 100% of all exam objectives, this study guide goes beyond mere review to delve deeper into the complex topics and technologies to help you strengthen your understanding and sharpen your skills.

By William Panek

Your complete guide to Windows 10 installation and configuration, with expert instruction and practical exam preparation, this book presents real-world scenarios offering on the job experience while hands-on exercises provide practical instruction on critical techniques.

By William Panek

Featuring real-world scenarios that illustrate the practical applications of the lessons, and hands-on exercises which allow you to test yourself against everyday tasks, this comprehensive guide gives you the information and practice you need to master all aspects of Windows Server 2012 R2 for the test.

By William Panek

Including more than 1,000 pages of quality exam-prep content which covers 100% of the objective domains of all three exams (as well as the Upgrade exam, 70-417), this comprehensive study guide arms you with all the information you must master to achieve MCSA certification on Windows Server 2012 R2.

By William Panek

With comprehensive coverage of all exam topics, real-world scenarios to demonstrate how the lessons are applied in everyday settings, and plenty of hands-on practice, this self-paced guide is the ideal resource for those preparing for the MCSA on Windows Server 2012 R2.

By William Panek

With hands-on exercises, real-world scenarios, and over 500 practice questions, this comprehensive study guide walks you through 100 percent of all exam objectives covering everything you need to know for complete exam readiness.

By Will Panek

Tightly focused and highly relevant, this guide provides everything you need to go into the exam fully prepared, including expert coverage of all exam objectives and hundreds of practice questions to help you track your progress and prioritize areas most in need of review.

By William Panek

Helping you build the confidence you need to succeed on test day, this book covers 100% of exam objectives, including installing Windows Servers, installing Hyper-V, implementing network connectivity, and more.

By Crystal Panek, William Panek

Whether you want to sit for the exam, or simply improve your job performance, this thorough study guide will give you the expert insight to learn the key concepts and latest updates to Windows Server 2016.

By Will Panek

Providing complete coverage and hands-on practice for the second MCSA Windows Server 2016 exam, this guide is your ideal companion for thorough preparation with hundreds of practice questions that pinpoint your weak spots and exercises that reflect the MCSA skill set.

By Will Panek

Digging deeper into the intricacies of the Windows OS to provide the most up-to-date information on new Windows 10 technologies, this authoritative resource walks you through device planning, deployment, and management; network and storage configuration; access, data, app, and recovery management, and much more to help you master the exam material.

By William Panek

Through real-world scenarios and hands-on exercises, this comprehensive study guide prepares candidates to master all the exam objectives for the Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA): Windows 8.1 exams 70-687 and 70-688, as well as the Upgrade exam 70-689.

By Darril Gibson, Jeffrey R. Shapiro

Including almost 1,000 pages of quality exam-prep content, this authoritative, comprehensive guide covers 100% of the objective domains for all three exams required for the new version of Microsoft's MCSA certification for Windows Server 2012.

By William Panek

A preparatory guide for the MCSE Exchange 2000 Server Design Exam (70-225).

By William Heldman

Containing hands-on exercises to reinforce critical skills, real-world scenarios tot put what you've learned in context, and challenging review questions in each chapter to prepare you for exam day, this guide will help you pass all three of Microsoft's new Windows Server 2008 R2 exams.

By William Panek

A must-read for IT Admins leveraging Modern Management with MDM, this book teaches you MDM fundamentals, essential troubleshooting techniques, and how to manage your enterprise desktops.

By Jeremy Moskowitz

Featuring step-by-step instruction and in-depth coverage of all essential topics, this authoritative guide is packed with expert guidance on the latest version of Dynamics CRM and will get you thoroughly up to speed on everything from the basics to new features and more.

By Geoff Ables, Matthew Wittemann

Whether you're considering a CRM system for the first time or you've decided to switch from another system to Microsoft Dynamics CRM, this guide will help you get set up, navigate and customize the system, work with your accounts and contacts, and more.

By David Lee, Joel Scott, Scott Weiss

In order to ensure that you have all of the tools necessary to achieve success with CRM development, this authoritative text presents the essential aspects of API development including plugin development and registration.

By Mark Beckner, Triston Arisawa

Highlighting the most useful and practical features, disproving common misconceptions, and letting you in on the best tips and tricks, this no-nonsense guide will help you dispel myths and reap the benefits of this robust accounting software.

By Renato Bellu

Written for administrators and consultants in the trenches, this innovative guide begins with key concepts of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and then moves through the recommended practices and processes that are necessary to deploy a top-quality Exchange service.

By Nathan Winters, Neil Johnson, Nicolas Blank

Discover and work with the new features in Microsoft Exchange Server 2016. This book will show you how to deploy a new server or coexistence with Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2013.

By Edward van Biljon

This book is a go-to-guide for System Administrators, Windows Administrators, Network Administrators, System Engineers who plays key role in managing the infrastructure and support of the business communication throughout the company.

By Edward van Biljon

This book is outlined in a way that will help the readers learn the concepts of Microsoft Intune from scratch, covering the basic terminologies used. It aims to start your Intune journey in the most efficient way to build your career and help you upscale existing skills.

By Manish Bangia

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Daniel Nicholson

Packed with more than 300 sample scripts and an extensive collection of library functions, this book examines how Windows scripting is changing the face of system and network administration.

By James O'Neill, Jeffrey Rosen, William R. Stanek

Use this fun and easy book to learn how to create portal sites so teams can collaborate online on documents, policies, projects, and more.

By Vanessa L. Williams

Demonstrating how to design, deploy, implement, administer, and maintain a SharePoint infrastructure, this book provides the information you need to not only prepare for the MCITP certification exam as a SharePoint 2010 administrator, but also to excel in your job.

By James Pyles, Tom Carpenter

Whether you're an administrator who needs to install and configure SharePoint or a non-techie who's been charged with managing content on a SharePoint portal, you'll find the nuts-and-bolts in this book to install and configure a SharePoint portal.

By Vanessa L. Williams

Giving administrators and small-business website managers the information they need to make the most of SharePoint 2010, this guide shows how to get a SharePoint site up and running, branded, populated with content, and more.

By Vanessa L. Williams

Focusing completely on the new features and capabilities of SharePoint 2010, this book offers intermediate-level guidance for designing and deploying exciting business solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

By Sahil Malik

Skillfully deploy Microsoft SharePoint Premium to automate your organization's document processing and management

By Dustin Willard, Jacob J. Sanford, Ryan Dennis, Woodrow W. Windischman

For administrators who wish to simplify the process of automating system administration tasks, this book is written in a practical, cookbook style with numerous chapters and recipes focusing on creating runbooks to automate mission-critical and everyday administration tasks.

By Andreas Baumgarten, Samuel Erskine, Steve Beaumont

Focusing on the new Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) program, this book pares down to just the essentials, showing beginners how to gain a solid foundation for understanding networking concepts upon which more advanced topics and technologies can be built.

By Darril Gibson

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Jerry Lee Ford Jr.

Whether you are supporting a small Windows network or large enterprise, this book includes in-depth discussions and step-by-step exercises to help administrators of all skill levels manage and maintain the Windows Server 2008 R2 family of operating systems.

By Dustin Hannifin, et al.

Serving as a perfect companion to all Windows Server books, this helpful, must-read reference provides you with quick and easily searchable solutions to day-to-day challenges of Microsoft's newest version of Windows Server.

By Chris Henley, Matthew Hester

Including review questions and suggested labs, this clear and concise resource serves as an approachable introduction to understanding how to install a server, the various roles of a server, and how server performance and maintenance impacts a network.

By Tom Carpenter

Featuring real-world case scenarios and invaluable advice, this essential guide walks you through the steps for securing a network and building a bulletproof framework that will protect and support mobile devices in the enterprise.

By Ashwin Krishnan, Rich Campagna, Subbu Iyer

Presenting a guide to FreeBSD for network administrators, this book introduces the basic tools for monitoring the performance and security of FreeBSD, and offers guidance for using the system to build, secure, and maintain networks.

By Babak Farrokhi

Written by an author who has gone through the rough phase while moving from IIS/Apache to Nginx, this book is practical and filled with step-by-step instructions to make your time with Nginx as straightforward as possible.

By Rahul Soni

Your single official source for documentation, instruction, and answers about Red Hat Linux 8, this resource delivers all the know-how you need to manage Linux networks and systems, troubleshoot problems, and provide optimum client service.

By The Red Hat Documentation Team

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Christian Gross

For anyone who is interested in a SUSE Linux system, at home or at work, this book provides all the step-by-step instruction, techniques, and resources you need to install, configure, operate, and secure openSUSE 11.0 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

By Justin Davies, Roger Whittaker

Intended as a brief but practical guide in preparing systems to host Oracle software installations, this step-by-step book provides some useful examples of systems administration tasks that one might perform to troubleshoot and otherwise support an Oracle software installation.

By Sideris

Showing in detail how PAM works and how it is configured, this book examines the 11 common modules used across UNIX/Linux distributions, discusses installation of third-party modules, and outlines the development of new modules and PAM-aware applications.

By Kenneth Geisshirt

This book provides exclusive coverage of using PowerShell with both cloud-based systems and virtualized environments (Hyper V and Azure).

By Thomas Lee

PowerShell is a powerful scripting language, automation framework and command-line shell developed by Microsoft that is built on the .NET framework.

By Morten Elmstrøm Hansen

Bringing together the Python programming language and Microsoft's PowerShell, this expert guide addresses digital investigations and creates state-of-the-art solutions for administrators, IT personnel, cyber response teams, and forensic investigators.

By Chet Hosmer

This book would give an IT administrator's view of Microsoft Azure by equipping them to construct, manage, and administer workloads on-premise or in the Cloud. The later chapters are straightforward to understand and completely isolated from each section.

By Prashanth Jayaram, Rajendra Gupta

This book will help you learn PowerShell by providing small "cheat" snippets that you can combine to write efficient and effective scripts.

By Vikas Sukhija

Learn the basic tools and commands to write scripts in PowerShell 7. This hands-on guide is designed to get you up and running on PowerShell quickly.

By Ian Waters

This book explains about powershell as both a scripting language and an administrative shell that lets you control and automate nearly every aspect of IT.

By Adam Bertram

This book is ideal for IT professionals, system administrators, and tech enthusiasts keen on learning PowerShell. Basic familiarity with Windows operating systems and a keen interest in automation and scripting are recommended for readers.

By Liam Cleary

Practical Automation with PowerShell: Effective scripting from the console to the cloud shows you how to build PowerShell automations for local and cloud systems.

By Matthew Dowst

With exercises at the end of each chapter to help solidify your skills, this hands-on guide will teach you in-depth how binary programs work and will help you acquire the tools and techniques needed to gain more control and insight into binary programs.

By Dennis Andriesse

Taking a detailed look at how to secure and manage digital evidence using Linux-based command line tools, this essential guide walks you through the entire forensic acquisition process and covers a wide range of practical scenarios and situations related to the imaging of storage media.

By Bruce Nikkel

The graph examples in the book are useful for analyzing social media relationships, complex product-to-customer relationships, and any other type of data analysis in which indirect connections that otherwise might be missed using conventional techniques can be mined for their insight and business value.

By Louis Davidson

Learn the skills to complete the full installation, configuration, and maintenance of an enterprise class internet server, no matter what Unix-like operating system you prefer. This book will rapidly guide you towards real system administration, with clear explanations along the way.

By Robert La Lau

Practical Linux DevOps is the perfect companion for those who want to learn how to build systems with utility and learn about modern hardware and software practices.

By John S. Tonello

Practical Linux Forensics dives into the technical details of analyzing postmortem forensic images of Linux systems that have been misused, abused, or the target of malicious attacks.

By Bruce Nikkel

Covering a key area of implementation in each chapter with clear examples and step-by-step instructions, this guide teaches you how to use the best open source tools to build a new Linux infrastructure or alter an existing infrastructure, and to ensure it stands up to enterprise-level needs.

By Syed Ali

Using challenging, real-world scenarios, this invaluable guide will help you improve your practical know-how and background knowledge on servers and workstations alike, increase your ability to troubleshoot, and ultimately solve the daily challenges encountered by all professional Linux users.

By Chris Binnie

Switch to or dive further into the Linux family of Operating Systems. This short guide reviews Linux commands, GUI, and shell scripting in a holistic manner by diving into both advanced and day-to-day tasks using the Raspberry Pi OS.

By Ashwin Pajankar

The emergence of the cloud and modern, fast corporate networks demands that you perform judicious balancing of computational loads. This book presents an entire analytical framework to increase performance not just of one machine, but of your entire infrastructure.

By David Hows, Eelco Plugge, Peter Membrey

Your complete guide to studying for the Linux Professional Institute's Server Professional (LPIC-1) certification, this thorough resource fully represents every concept, principle, process, and resource that might make an appearance on the exam.

By David Clinton

Gain the essential skills and hands-on expertise required to pass the LPIC-3 300 certification exam. This book provides the insight for you to confidently install, manage and troubleshoot OpenLDAP, Samba, and FreeIPA.

By Antonio Vazquez

Showing you how to use Linux containers as an alternative virtualization technique to virtualize your operating system environment, this book will cover LXC's unmatched flexibility with virtualization and LXD's smooth user experience.

By Senthil Kumaran S.

By showing you how to educate your users on what metadata is and why it is important, this book is a guide and tool set for planning and documenting the scope, navigational taxonomy, metadata, page layouts and workflows for a successful SharePoint 2010 project.

By Ruven Gotz

Providing the quintessential governance reference guide for SharePoint consultants, administrators, architects, and anyone else looking for actual hands-on governance guidance, this book focuses entirely on actions to take and behaviors to adopt for addressing real-world governance challenges.

By Steve Goodyear

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Bobby Malik

This book teaches you all the required background knowledge you need. Then it takes you deeper, step by step, teaching you how to deploy Certificate Services and configure it to issue various digital certificate types, complete with examples of using these certificates with IIS, Outlook, and Windows.

By Lawrence E. Hughes

Teaching you how to effectively utilize the Bash shell in your programming, this book is easy to read and understand, and will teach you how to get to grips with Bash programming without drowning you in pages and pages of syntax.

By Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma

Learn how to effectively utilize the Bash shell in your programming. This refreshed and expanded third edition has been updated to Bash 5.2, and many scripts have been rewritten to make them more idiomatically Bash, taking better advantage of features specific to Bash.

By Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma

Taking you through tips, tricks, and little known facts that will make your administration life simpler and more effective, this book is your best-in-class companion for gaining a deep, thorough understanding of managing all facets of Exchange 2013 Service Pack 1 with PowerShell.

By Jaap Wesselius, Michel de Rooij

This book explains about who are responsible for building and maintaining an Exchange environment, both on-premises and in a hybrid configuration with Exchange Online

By Michel de Rooij

Written from the perspective of a user employing technologies and techniques typically reserved for desktop systems, this book shows you how to work with existing Linux embedded system, while still teaching how to port Linux.

By Gene Sally

Teaching you how to implement this fundamental Linux add-on into your business, this authoritative guide explains essential high-availability clustering components on all Linux platforms, giving you the insight to build solutions for any specific case needed.

By Sander van Vugt

Covering major distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, and CentOS, this book provides a step-by-step approach that moves readers from basic tasks to heavy-duty infrastructure.

By Dennis Matotek, James Turnbull, Peter Lieverdink

A full in-depth guide to this vital PowerShell feature in Windows and beyond, this thorough resource helps readers take a modern and robust approach to configuring their infrastructure, whether on-premises or in the cloud, and cross-platform.

By Ravikanth Chaganti

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading public cloud platform. In this book, you will learn to use Microsoft PowerShell to create, host, manage, and administer workloads using AWS.

By Brian Beach, Emmanuel Tsouris, Rodney Bozo, Steven Armentrout

Showing you how to dive into the PowerShell environment and customize it to your needs, this complete guide provides all the know-how you need along with real-world examples that will help you get down to business with this powerful automation tool.

By Bryan Cafferky

Taking a practical problem-solution approach to common business challenges, this book will show you how to build applications that apply the benefits of the Office desktop interface to the richness of SharePoint collaboration features.

By Chad Wach, Ed Hild

Covering the out-of-the-box feature set and capabilities of Microsoft's collaboration and business productivity platform, this book is a practical, one-stop guide to SharePoint 2013 for intermediate to advanced SharePoint administrators and power users.

By Rob Garrett

Apps have taken the world by storm, and now they're taking SharePoint as well. This is a step-by-step guide to developing app solutions that run on the SharePoint 2013 platform.

By Steve Wright

Through the context of building a complete website on SharePoint 2013 from start to finish, this definitive guide shows you how to combine SharePoint 2013 web content management features and capabilities with modern web design and development skills.

By Eric Overfield, Kanwal Khipple, Oscar Medina, Rita Zhang

Demonstrating the features and capabilities in a practical, results-oriented way, this guide will help you master the customization of the end user's complete SharePoint 2010 experience and be on your way to enhancing your sites in no time.

By David Petersen, Steve Wright

Focusing on not only the fundamentals of how Vim works, but also by distilling the author's own experiences learning Vim into an easy-to-understand and follow guide, this book teaches you the real-world workflows, tips, and tricks of this powerful, terminal-based text editor.

By Mark McDonnell

Using familiar developer tools and packed with code samples, this guide will take you on a deep-dive into device driver development and contains everything you'll need to start developing for small footprint devices with confidence.

By Abraham Kcholi

Serving as both a tutorial and a real-world reference, this text is targeted at professionals who handle a lot of repetitive tasks, and will show them how PowerShell can help script most of those tasks and reduce their burden.

By Hristo Deshev

Sprinkled with practical examples throughout to reinforce understanding, this book is designed to efficiently and effectively get developers comfortable using this highly useful platform for open-source development on Windows.

By Hayden Barnes

Providing connected labs and exercises at key points to reinforce important concepts and deepen your understanding, this comprehensive book offers a focus on the practical that goes beyond technical tutorials to help you integrate the Git model into your real-world workflow.

By Brent Laster

Showing you how to take advantage of the exciting new features of IIS 7, this text will help you learn to deploy, install, monitor, manage, and secure an IIS environment with confidence and ease.

By Ken Schaefer, et al.

A guide to the kernel sources and large number of connections among subsystems, this book provides an introduction to the architecture, concepts and algorithms of the Linux kernel.

By Wolfgang Mauerer

Rather than focus on a particular language or development technique, this essential guide looks at different development environments within Linux and demonstrates best practices, tools, and techniques for integrating applications with the OS as a whole.

By Jon Masters, Richard Blum

Helping you get thoroughly up to speed on Microsoft's new IIS 8 platform, this indispensable and real-world reference covers common administrative tasks associated with monitoring and managing an IIS environment.

By Benjamin Perkins, Dennis Glendenning, Jeff Cochran, Ken Schaefer, Scott Forsyth

With a particular appeal for anyone responsible for implementing and managing enterprise search, this book presents the key features and functions that are available with FAST search - Microsoft's latest intelligent search-based technology.

By Jeff Fried, Mark Bennett, Miles Kehoe, Natalya Voskresenskaya

By explaining official records in the context of day-to-day collaboration and regulatory compliance, this unique guide provides step-by-step guidance for designing and building records management solutions on the SharePoint platform.

By John Holliday

A must-read book not only for every SharePoint developer interested in WCM, but also for all SharePoint developers, this in-depth guide stepes through all the different ways you can extend and customize MOSS to meet your specific WCM needs.

By Andrew Connell

Aimed at the more than 100 million licensed SharePoint 2010 users, this indispensable field guide addresses an abundance of common SharePoint 2010 problems and offers proven solutions.

By Christina Wheeler, Colin Murphy, Pablo Gazmuri, Steve Caravajal, Steven Mann

A fully updated resource that prepares you for making all the new SharePoint 2013 features work right, this authoritative guide covers all of the administration components in detail, and presents a clear understanding of how they affect the role of the administrator.

By Shane Young, Steve Caravajal, Todd Klindt

Authored by some of the most recognized SharePoint developers in the field, this comprehensive book provides you with in-depth coverage of all aspects of SharePoint 2013 development, and guides you through everything from building solutions to building custom workflow.

By Reza Alirezaei, et al.

Examining the benefits of Windows Embedded Compact 7 (WEC7,) this in-depth resource takes you through the benefits and capabilities of WEC7 so that you can start using this performance development platform today.

By David Jones, Samuel Phung, Thierry Joubert

Providing a new environment for interactive exploration and administration of Windows machines, this groundbreaking book guides you through the ins and outs of PowerShell and demonstrates how to utilize it to create powerful solutions.

By Andrew Watt

Providing you with the programmer's approach to understanding Windows PowerShell, this book introduces you to the concepts, components, and development techniques for building software packages that leverage the power of PowerShell.

By Arul Kumaravel, et al.

With the new Workflow Foundation 4 (WF4) toolkit in SharePoint 2010, companies have new ways to build custom solutions for common or frequent business processes. This unique book is packed with instructions and tips that show you how.

By Paul J. Galvin, Udayakumar Ethirajulu

Presenting a comprehensive, up-to-date, and accessible presentation of embedded systems, this book offers a balance of fundamental theory, review of industry practice, and hands-on experience to prepare for a career in the real-time embedded system industries.

By John Pratt, Sam Siewert

With real-life examples and implementation, this book will show you how to use Red Hat's security tools to establish a set of security strategies that work together to help protect your digital data.

By Rithik Chatterjee

This book is for IT operations teams, Automation engineers, DevOps engineers, Sysadmins, Software development teams, and cloud management teams with prior knowledge of the basics of Ansible.

By Luca Berton

Study the material in this book to prepare for the RHCE exam EX294 and to learn how using Ansible within your own environment improves system administration productivity.

By Andrew Mallett

Helping administrators prepare for and pass the new Red Hat Certified System Administrator (EX200) and the Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX300) exams, this easy-to-understand guide includes 100+ exercises, 550+ exam review questions, 70+ practice labs, and 2 sample exams.

By Asghar Ghori

While providing a great study aid for the RHCSA or RHCE certification exams, this go-to guide offers comprehensive coverage on setting up and managing web and mail services, using RHEL in enterprise environments, securing it, optimizing storage, and much more.

By Sander van Vugt

Use this comprehensive guide to harness the power of Red Hat Linux on a server, desktop, or laptop computer. Coverage includes desktop and server basics, simple, painless installations, Linux Shell, using VmWare, VNC, and more.

By Christopher Negus

This handy guide helps you work with Fedora by walking you through installing and configuring the OS, getting online, building a firewall, using Windows applications with Wine, tuning in with MPlayer, and much more.

By Jon 'maddog' Hall, Paul G. Sery

Providing comprehensive coverage on how to manage and network the Red Hat Linux OS, this book offers the step-by-step instructions needed to maintain and/or add to the Red Hat Linux system.

By Kurt Wall, Terry Collings

Featuring 100+ hands-on labs and four complete practice exams, this practical guide includes in-depth answer explanations to help you understand the material, and covers all official objectives for Exams EX200 and EX300.

By Michael Jang

Presenting a proven study system for RHCSA and RHCE candidates, this hands-on guide offers complete coverage of all exam objectives and performance-based requirements related to the exams, including difficult lab-based scenarios.

By Alessandro Orsaria, Michael Jang

Embark on a transformative journey through the exciting world of Roblox Lua scripting with this comprehensive hands-on guide. Tailored to game developers, both seasoned and new, this book serves as your roadmap to mastering the art and science of Lua scripting within the dynamic Roblox Studio environment.

By Christopher Coutinho

Create mods using the popular game Farming Simulator with Lua, a versatile scripting language that can run on various platforms and applications.

By Manuel Leithner, Zander Brumbaugh

Developers and admins, it's time to simplify your workday. With this practical guide, use scripting to solve tedious IT problems with less effort and less code! Learn about popular scripting languages: Bash, PowerShell, and Python. Master important techniques such as working with Linux, cmdlets, regular expressions, JSON, SSH, Git, and more.

By Michael Kofler

An essential resource for IT and Audit professionals on how to manage, secure and audit smart devices, this book provides an understanding of the technologies related to smart devices and presents a number of different methods available to address the security of them.

By Philip Chukwuma, Richard Cozart, Sajay Rai

Authored by EMC Proven Professionals, Knowledge Sharing articles present ideas, expertise, unique deployments, and best practices. This article discusses the various points which must be considered while strengthening the security of a Linux-based product.

By Aditya Lad

Authored by EMC Proven Professionals, Knowledge Sharing articles present ideas, expertise, unique deployments, and best practices. This article provides guidance for analyzing the threat and severity of day-to-day security issues reported in Linux-based systems, products, and appliances and to devise patch strategies for the same.

By Aditya Lad

The third edition of Security Strategies in Linux Platforms and Applications covers every major aspect of security on a Linux system. Using real-world examples and exercises, this useful resource incorporates hands-on activities to walk readers through the fundamentals of security strategies related to the Linux system.

By Michael Jang, Ric Messier

ecurity Strategies in Windows Platforms and Applications, Fourth Edition focuses on new risks, threats, and vulnerabilities associated with the Microsoft Windows operating system, placing a particular emphasis on Windows 11, and Windows Server 2022.

By Michael G. Solomon, Robert Shimonski

With its accessible writing style, and step-by-step examples, this essential resource highlights how to use tools and techniques to decrease risks arising from vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows operating systems and applications.

By Michael G. Solomon

Revised and updated to keep pace with this ever changing field, Security Strategies in Windows Platforms and Applications, Third Edition focuses on new risks, threats, and vulnerabilities associated with the Microsoft Windows operating system, placing a particular emphasis on Windows 10, and Windows Server 2016 and 2019.

By Michael G. Solomon

Providing a complete, easy-to-use guide to the MIPS instruction set using the MIPS32 standard as the baseline architecture with the MIPS64 as the main option, this text describes how Linux is built on the foundations the MIPS hardware provides and summarizes the Linux application environment.

By Dominic Sweetman

A step-by-step resource exploring the SELinux environment, this book covers everything from how to build SELinux policies to the integration of the technology with other systems and looks at a wide range of examples to assist in creating additional policies.

By Sven Vermeulen

A comprehensive guide to the nooks and crannies of Sendmail, the most-popular electronic mail utility for those using Unix-based servers.

By Frederick M. Avolio, Paul A. Vixie

Comparing various options regarding server architecture from two separate points of view, this text presents different aspects of server architecture from databases designed for parallel architectures to high-availability systems, and much more.

By René J. Chevance

In Serverless Architectures with AWS, Second Edition you'll learn how to design serverless systems using Lambda and other services on the AWS platform.

By Ajay Nair, Peter Sbarski, Yan Cui

Equipping you with the power of knowledge to set your web presence apart from the rest, this book expertly designs interesting, understandable lessons for professionals such as teachers, doctors, lawyers, and more to deploy their own virtual private server.

By Jon Westfall

Helping you put this great collaboration tool to work right away, this guide explains what SharePoint can do and how to make it work for your business, understand the technical terms, and enable your people to collaborate on documents and spreadsheets.

By Greg Harvey

Whether you're an experienced administrator or you're just getting your feet wet, this book provides what you need to get started and keep going with SharePoint 2010 including planning, installation, configuration, performance, troubleshooting, data structure, and more.

By Emer McKenna, Kevin Laahs, Veli-Matti Vanamo

Showing you how to develop solutions on the SharePoint platform, and have the result come out rich with features and functionality, this friendly guide demystifies SharePoint, and gives you the tools to create solutions to meet your business's needs.

By Ken Withee

Packed with real-world experiences and solid processes, this guidebook provides you with everything you need to perform for designing and architecting enterprise portal services.

By Bill Baer, Brian Wilson, Martin Kearn, Reza Alirezaei

After an introduction to the new features of SharePoint 2010, this one-stop guide helps you conquer the six key areas of SharePoint 2010 so that you can successfully take advantage of the Microsoft SharePoint platform.

By Chris Geier, et al.

From specific technologies such as master pages, page layouts, and CSS to offering best-practices and real-world experience for creating successful branding projects through SharePoint 2013, this visual book will show you how to approach your branding project in effective new ways.

By John Ross, Paul Stubbs, Randy Drisgill

Covering all the latest features of SharePoint 2013 and providing you with an easy-to-understand resource for making the most of all that this version has to offer, this handy guide includes essential need-to-know information for administrators, techsumers, and page admins who want to leverage the cloud-hosted features online, either as a standalone product or in conjunction with an existing SharePoint infrastructure.

By Ken Withee

Whether you have not yet used SharePoint at all, have used previous versions, have just started using the basic features, or have been using it for a long time, this book provides the skills you need to work efficiently with the capabilities SharePoint 2016 provides.

By Tony Smith

If you want to get started and finished as quickly as possible, this practical book will walk you through developing an example site for a wine business to see what help SharePoint Designer offers, and steps through clear instructions to get things done.

By Mike Poole

The book begins by covering the benefits of using SharePoint Online Modern Experience, creating and managing modern team sites and communication sites, and customizing modern site pages.

By Bijay Kumar Sahoo

Filled with over 150 essential, practical recipes that empower Unix users to regain lost time spent creating and testing shell scripts, this book includes recipe topics such as including file conversion (DOS, UNIX, and Mac), system administration, resource monitoring, filename management, complex date calculations, screen control capabilities, and much more.

By Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma

A compendium of shell scripting recipes that can immediately be used, adjusted, and applied, this book covers shell programming, with a focus on Linux and the Bash shell while providing credible, real-world relevance and the flexible tools to get started immediately.

By Steve Parker

Offering great advice about hardware, directions for downloading and installing Skype, this easy-to-use guide will help you to understand all the hype about Skype and make this cool alternative communication system work for you.

By Howard Dammond, Loren Abdulezer, Susan Abdulezer

Demonstrating best practices for design, configuration, and development, this book uses real-world solutions and exercises giving you the confidence and expertise to deliver an implementation that provides long-term success for your organization.

By Aaron Yetter, Hoss Hostetler, Justin Mathena

Helping you to install and configure the newest version, this friendly guide describes how to work with digital media, build a network, get acquainted with Firefox, explore Skype and Linphone Internet phone services, and much more.

By Naba Barkakati

Essential reading for the hobbyist who wants to get up and running quickly, this handy reference cuts straight to the chase and covers installation, set-up, the shell, the desktop, applications, servers, and security.

By Christopher Negus, François Caen

This book delivers the theoretical background needed to understand how directory servers work, resulting in clear, concise examples of implementations in both commercial and OpenLDAP environments.

By Reinhard Voglmaier

Assuming you have little to no experience in a professional information technology environment, this practical book is designed to give new system administrators an understanding of concepts, processes, and technologies that will aid in their professional development.

By Eric Kralicek

Presenting a careful, in depth, non-engineering introduction to the inner workings of modern computer systems, this book aims to provide the fundamentals of computer architecture which are essential to the workplace survival of Information Systems graduates.

By Irv Englander

Written from the perspective of the designer of an operating system, this book tackles important issues and practical problems on how to understand an operating system completely and systematically. It illustrates the real states of an operating system in actual operations.

By Yang Lixiang, et al.

Based on a five day training course that the authors have presented to hundreds of students, this step-by-step guide begins with introductory concepts and moves towards the advanced to focus exclusively on memory forensics and how to deploy such techniques properly.

By AAron Walters, Andrew Case, Jamie Levy, Michael Hale-Ligh

Every aspect of planning, installing, configuring and troubleshooting a Windows Server 2003 network is distilled and documented in this book, and it reflects the realities of today's enterprise network professional.

By Susan Snedaker

Whether using Postfix in a small office setting, as a mail relay, or as a company mail server, this guide will help you learn exactly what you need to get the most out of this powerful mail transport tool and its valuable security features.

By Patrick Koetter, Ralf Hildebrandt

Filled with examples based on real-world tasks readers are likely to perform, this book focuses on CentOS alone, the workhorse Linux distro that does the heavy lifting in small and medium-size enterprises without drawing too much attention to itself.

By Peter Membrey, Ralph Angenendt, Tim Verhoeven

Geared toward those who have experience programming in C and developing code on Linux, this text offers a clear, concise treatment of creating clients and servers under the Linux operating system.

By John Turner, Keir Davis, Nathan Yocom

With step-by-step and scenario based exercises, this task-oriented book will teach you everything you need to know and the skills you need to manage SUSE Linux Enterprise Servers, from installing a secure server, to performing the day-to-day management tasks on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

By Sander van Vugt

This guide demonstrates how to build safe and secure installations, as well as build example projects as Visual Studio Setup and Deployment Projects. It will show you how you need to design applications to integrate properly with Windows Installer.

By Phil Wilson

Learn the basics, followed by the more advanced skills you will need to become an Enterprise Linux administrator. This book will prepare you to use Linux effectively with a clearer understanding of what is needed to successfully leverage new opportunities.

By Kenneth Hitchcock

GNU make is known for being tricky to use, but it doesn't have to be. This pragmatic manual and cookbook demystifies GNU make and provides an indispensable guide that will help you make rapid progress toward becoming a more effective user.

By John Graham-Cumming

With highly detailed passages on the ins and outs of manufacturing and a comprehensive take on the issues associated with open source hardware, this practical guide is an invaluable resource for aspiring hackers and makers.

By Andrew Huang

Teaching you the timeless skills handed down by generations of gray-bearded, mouse-shunning gurus, this in-depth guide takes you from your very first terminal keystrokes to writing full programs in Bash, the most popular Linux shell.

By William E. Shotts, Jr.

This book takes you from your very first terminal keystrokes to writing full programs in Bash, the most popular Linux shell (or command line).

By William Shotts

For those interested in deploying Linux when low cost computer reliability is important, this book explains how to place computers with limited resources on a computer network, and install free software so the computers act together like one server.

By Karl Kopper

If you want to learn the secrets that make the best Linux SysAdmins powerful far beyond that of mere mortals; if you want to understand the concepts that unlock those secrets; if you want to be the SysAdmin that everyone else turns to when the bytes hit the fan - then this book is for you.

By David Both

Providing descriptions of over 500 system calls and library functions, and more than 200 example programs, 88 tables, and 115 diagrams, this definitive guide describes the Linux programming interface-the system calls, library functions, and other low-level interfaces provided by Linux.

By Michael Kerrisk

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Thomas F. Herbert

Whether you are using it yourself, setting it up for another person, teaching others about ease of use at work or in the home, or working with a people with specific needs in the community, this book explains everything you need to know about making Windows 10 easier to use, see, hear, touch, or read.

By Mike Halsey

This book provides a deep dive into the Windows OS, detailing what everything is, and how it works. You will learn about the in-built, additional, and third-party tools and utilities you can use to create reliable, robust and secure PC systems.

By ​Mike Halsey

Your indispensable guide to SharePoint troubleshooting and resolution, this hands-on resource provides a treasure trove of free SharePoint tools and offers insightful guidance about the types of issues that can be discovered through their use.

By Stacy Simpkins

Taking you through a range of examples and showing you how to gather information from different computer sources, this book demonstrates how to use PowerShell to quickly pinpoint, diagnose, and solve problems with your Windows Server environment.

By Derek Schauland, Donald Jacobs

Full of tips, tricks, and helpful pointers, this straightforward guide is perfect for those interested in-but nervous about-switching to the Linux operating system.

By Phil Bull, Rickford Grant

This book offers you the flexibility to master the basics in the "Getting Started with Ubuntu Linux" section, or to skip directly to more advanced tasks. "Ubuntu for Desktop Users" shows you how to setup email, surf the web, play games, and create and publish documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

By Christopher Negus, David Clinton

Want to set up text files? Use the GNOME desktop or command-line tools? Create a virtualized machine? Set up mail, Samba, or NFS servers? This information-packed guide provides everything you need to know about Ubuntu - and then some!

By William von Hagen

Packed with valuable advice and secrets on every aspect of the Ubuntu Linux Distribution, this comprehensive guide delivers in-depth information on the Ubuntu workstation, server and applications, and provides coverage of Ubuntu as a software platform.

By Richard Blum

Containing a host of updated tools for today's environment, as well as expanded coverage on everything you need to know to confidently start using Ubuntu today, this guide delves into coverage of popular applications for the web, productivity suites, e-mail, and more.

By Christopher Negus

Packed with tips, tricks, and helpful pointers, this straightforward book will get you up and running with the world's most popular free operating system. Learn to install and play games, access social networks, troubleshoot hardware and software problems, and more.

By Phil Bull, Rickford Grant

Design and develop hybrid scenarios with SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server 2019. This book will help you build hybrid environments from scratch, and covers basic to advanced scenarios.

By Nanddeep Sadanand Nachan, Smita Sadanand Nachan

Learn to deploy simple and complex applications that are beyond the scope of default Intune application deployment scenarios and limitations. This book will help you deploy applications using a PowerShell script.

By Owen Heaume

This resource explains to Windows and Exchange Administrators how they can use the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) scriptable technology available in these products to ease their day-to-day management tasks.

By Alain Lissoir

Providing numerous examples and complete program scripts that will help in grasping the key concepts effectively, this book discusses the features that made Unix the most suitable operating system of its time.

By B.M. Harwani

Including concepts of writer process communication, system administrations, tools and debugger and the utilities/command of Unix, this book contains introductions to Unix, the shell and its structure.

By Archana Verma

Written in a student-friendly manner, this book presents an illuminative and objective exploration of algorithms and programming skills on UNIX and SHELL, and contains large number of practical examples supported by their algorithms.

By Anoop Chaturvedi, B.L. Rai

This guide presents thorough coverage of how to handle Unix installation, file management, software, utilities, networks, Internet access, GNOME and KDE desktops, common problems, and more.

By John Levine, Margaret Levine Young

With complete examples illustrating each aspect, along with source code and full-color screenshots depicting the actual output, this easy-to-follow book will show you how to use the BASH command-line interface and how to employ BASH's powerful programming abilities.

By Mike McGrath

The book appeals to UNIX professionals, students, master's degree applicants, and candidates for competitive exams who wish to understand UNIX principles thoroughly.

By Dr. Darpan Anand, Dr. K.K. Mishra, Dr. Sandeep Harit, Dr. Vineeta Khemchandani

Focusing on configuration of the relevant UNIX/LINUX servers within the organization, this program provide management with an independent assessment relating to the effectiveness of configuration and security of the UNIX/LINUX operations systems.

By ISACA

This book provides you with the tools necessary for mastering user management; installing, updating, and deleting software; and using command line tools to do performance tuning and basic problem determination.

By David Both

Experience an in-depth exploration of logical volume management and the use of file managers to manipulate files and directories and the critical concept that, in Linux, everything is a file and some fun and interesting uses of the fact that everything is a file.

By David Both

Learn to be a Linux sysadmin and an expert user of the Linux operating system, even with no previous Linux experience. This second edition of the popular and highly rated Linux self-study training course has been fully updated to Fedora Linux 37 with expanded and revised content and figures as well new chapters on the BTRFS file system, using Zram for swap, NetworkManager, automation with Ansible, and systemd.

By David Both

Become a Linux sysadmin and expert user of Linux, even with no previous Linux experience and learn to manage complex systems with ease.

By David Both

Manage complex systems with ease and equip yourself for a new career. This book builds upon the skills you learned in Volumes 1 and 2 and it depends upon the virtual network and virtual machine you created there.

By David Both

In Using and Administering Linux: Volume 3 you'll work with multiple VMs on a single physical host to create a network in which to sharpen your sysadmin skills.

By David Both

This book provides precise descriptions and instructions which enable users, students and consultants to understand Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations rapidly.

By Andreas Luszczak

Using a simple but comprehensive case study of a fictitious company, this book provides the required knowledge to handle all basic business processes in Dynamics AX. Exercises are included to train the processes and functionality.

By Andreas Luszczak

Whether you just bought your first computer or laptop, or are a keen computer user who has just upgraded to Windows 8, this step-by-step book will provide you with a firm grasp of the underpinning foundations and equip you with the skills needed to use a computer like a pro.

By Kevin Wilson

In a simple, easy-to-understand language, this helpful book breaks down all the functions of web hosting for self-hosted users, from setting up new e-mail accounts to backing up and securing your site, analyzing server logs, choosing a platform to install, and more.

By Peter Pollock

This cookbook of useful, customizable, and fun scripts gives you the tools to solve common Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX problems and personalize your computing environment.

By Dave Taylor

Whether you want to save time managing your system or just find new ways to goof off, this book offers a collection of useful, customizable, and fun shell scripts for solving common problems and personalizing your computing environment.

By Brandon Perry, Dave Taylor

If you're a first-time Windows 10 user looking for an authoritative, accessible resource to the basics of this new operating system, this all-encompassing guide cuts through confusing jargon and provides all the guidance you need to make the most of Windows 10.

By Woody Leonhard

This book is perfect for business users of Windows 10 who need to maximize their productivity and efficiency with the operating system.

By Ciprian Adrian Rusen, Woody Leonhard

Formatted as a reference divided into mini-tutorials, this clear and authoritative guide delves deep into the Windows 10 Anniversary Update to walk you through every inch of functionality.

By Jeffrey R. Shapiro, Jim Boyce, Rob Tidrow

Whether you're a beginner seeking guidance or a power-user looking for fresh tips and tricks, this essential book contains everything you could ever hope to know about the Windows operating system.

By Jeffrey R. Shapiro, Jim Boyce, Rob Tidrow

Updated to cover the latest changes to Windows 10, this revised edition is ideal for first-time Windows users who need a guide to their operating system as well as experienced users who need a road map to the latest features.

By Andy Rathbone

Whether you are using a desktop computer or a mobile device, this essential resource provides full-color and comprehensive coverage of the latest Windows operating system and shows how to get the most out of it.

By Nick Vandome

This book is a comprehensive, yet concise guide that will walk you through Windows 10 basics so that you can get up and running in no time.

By Mike McGrath

A comprehensive, yet concise guide that will walk you through Windows 10 basics so that you're up and running in no time, this book will then gently guide you through advanced features to help you venture further and get more from Windows 10.

By Mike McGrath

This book helps you to guide through perfect for novices and experienced users alike, you'll get tips, tricks, and savvy advice on how to install programs, set up user accounts, play music and other media files, download photos from your digital camera, go online, set up and secure an email account, and much, much more.

By Paul McFedries

Providing a complete resource for both the beginner and the enthusiast, and illustrated step-by-step using photography and screen shots throughout, this guide offers a firm grasp of the underpinning foundations of Windows 10, and will equip you with the skills needed to use a computer like a pro.

By Kinnary Jangla

Fully updated to cover Windows 10, this highly visual, plain-English guide covers all the new features in addition to the basics, giving you a one-stop resource for complete Windows 10 mastery.

By Paul McFedries

With keyboard shortcuts throughout to help you save time, this handy guide reveals over 1000 useful tips, tweaks and secrets that'll help you to run your PC more efficiently.

By Mike McGrath, Stuart Yarnold

If you're fed up of those nagging day-to-day issues, want to avoid costly repairs, or just want to learn more about how PCs work, this practical resource is your ideal one-stop guide to the Windows 10 operating system.

By Mike Halsey

This book will help you discover the connections between different hardware and software in your devices, and how their bonds with external hardware, networks, and the Internet are more inter-dependent than you think.

By Mike Halsey

Providing the most in-depth guide to deploying and maintaining a secure Windows network, this book drills down into all the new features of Windows 2012 and provides practical, hands-on methods for securing your Windows systems networks.

By Derrick Rountree

Authored by two of the most accomplished computer reference authors of all time, Andy Rathbone and Wallace Wang, this book helps new, intermediate, and experienced users access the power of the Windows 7 operating system and Office 2010 suite to achieve maximum efficiency.

By Andy Rathbone, Wallace Wang

Providing plenty of relevant information for those seeking MCITP certification, including full coverage of the exam objectives for both Desktop Support Technician and Desktop Administrator exams, this guide will be equally valuable for real-world situations you will encounter on the job.

By Darril Gibson

Created for professional Windows users and Windows enthusiasts alike, this thorough resource will help you learn the latest tools and techniques, master best practices, and take your abilities to new levels.

By Jeffrey Shapiro, Jim Boyce, Rob Tidrow

Designed as a review tool and starting point for the completion of a specific assurance process, this guide will provide an evaluation of the Active Directory implementation and management security design effectiveness.

By ISACA

Revealing all the command line utilities in one accessible guide, this hands-on resource will help you locate files, check status, monitor systems, and best of all, save time by using scripts to automate time-consuming tasks.

By John Paul Mueller

Focusing just on the essentials of command-line interface (CLI), this indispensable guide easily shows how to quickly perform day-to-day tasks of Windows administration without ever touching the graphical user interface (GUI).

By John Paul Mueller

Showing you how to navigate around the Windows file structure, its many functions and how essential everything is, this detailed book explains how to effectively manage file, folder and security permissions to ensure users get what the access they need, and no more.

By Andrew Bettany, Mike Halsey

Using a unique and innovative pattern-driven analysis approach, this training guide provides the essential fundamentals necessary for memory dump analysis and explains how to analyze different types of memory dumps.

By Dmitry Vostokov

Placing the proven methods of an industry veteran at your fingertips, this book explains how to use built-in Windows networking tools and third-party networking products to diagnose network problems, address performance issues, and enhance the overall security of your system and network.

By Gilbert Held

A clear and concise resource, this book is the ideal guide to Windows for IT beginners. Thanks to the troubleshooting tools and tips found inside, you will be able to apply your new skills in real-world situations and feel confident while taking the certification exam.

By Crystal Panek

Providing you with a practical field guide approach to performance monitoring and analysis from experts who do this work every day, this thorough book shows you how to identify and alleviate problems with the computer resources of disk, memory, processor, and network.

By Clint Huffman

Going well beyond theory to offer real-world information and new scripting techniques, this comprehensive volume provides the background that IT administrators and developers need in order to start using PowerShell automation in exciting new ways.

By Karl Mitschke, Mark E. Schill, Thomas Lee, Tome Tanasovski

The definitive guide to PowerShell, now revised to cover PowerShell 6, this rich book offers a crystal-clear introduction to the language along with its essential everyday use cases.

By Bruce Payette, Richard Siddaway

With numerous hints, tips, and tweaks for Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.1, this thorough book takes you inside the workings of the Registry, and teaches you how to repair, modify and clean it to keep your PCs running smoothly.

By Andrew Bettany, Mike Halsey

Windows Security Internals is a must-have for anyone needing to understand the Windows operating system's low-level implementations, whether to discover new vulnerabilities or protect against known ones. Developers, devops, and security researchers will all find unparalleled insight into the operating system's key elements and weaknesses, surpassing even Microsoft's official documentation.

By James Forshaw

With expert guidance to bring you up to speed on Windows auditing, logging, and event systems to help you exploit the full capabilities of these powerful components, this book offers scenario-based instruction providing clear illustration of how these events unfold in the real world.

By Andrei Miroshnikov

Whether you're starting from scratch or upgrading, this comprehensive guide offers a wealth of information on how to install, configure, manage, and maintain Windows Server 2008.

By Jeffrey R. Shapiro

Offering explanations and tips, and encouragement to work hands-on on your own virtual system, this book takes you through Hyper-V essentials, from testing new systems and software, to using virtualization for disaster recovery, and more.

By Allen Stewart, John Kelbley, Mike Sterling

Covering all aspects of Windows Server 2008 in an easy-to-follow, easy-access format, this book reveals helpful and advanced secrets on configuring Windows roles like DirectAccess, BranchCache, Active Directory maintenance, setting up remote access, and much more.

By Orin Thomas

Authored by Microsoft employees who offer insider knowledge of the Windows 8 platform, this comprehensive guide discusses how to deploy Windows security technologies effectively in both the traditional datacenter and in new cloud-based solutions.

By Debra Littlejohn Shinder, Thomas W. Shinder, Yuri Diogenes

Written by an information security pro and professor who trains aspiring system administrators, this one-stop reference covers the broad range of topics a system administrator needs to know to run Windows Server 2019.

By Sara Perrott

Windows Server 2022 & PowerShell All-in-One For Dummies delivers a thorough guide to network administration in a single, convenient book.

By Sara Perrott

Your one-stop resource for passing the Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) certification exam and moving your IT career forward, this book provides all the information you need to understand configuring, managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting Windows Server.

By Crystal Panek

Showing you how to maintain optimal compatibility when you need it the most, this brief book will guide you through the often complex minefield of managing your legacy, and sometimes even brand-new software and hardware.

By Andrew Bettany, Mike Halsey

Helping you make your PC's as secure as possible, this thorough guide teaches you how to limit the routes of attack and safely and completely remove all traces of malware and viruses should an infection take place.

By Andrew Bettany, Mike Halsey

The goal of this book is to introduce readers to three powerful command line utilities that can be combined to create simple yet powerful shell scripts for performing a multitude of tasks.

By Oswald Campesato

Learn how to how to deploy J2EE applications in JBoss Application Server and how to configure and administer JBoss server for the individual J2EE components.

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Learn about the advantages of Korn shell over earlier shells, including usage of command line editing modes, which allows an UNIX user to easily interact with UNIX operating system, and much more.

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The long-awaited x64 edition of the bestselling introduction to Intel assembly language

By Jeff Duntemann

Including examples drawn from social media sources such as Twitter (tweets) and Foursquare (check-ins), this practical, hands-on guide shows how to process and derive business value from big data in real time.

By Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali

Packed with working code and easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions to configure, deploy, and scale your applications, this book takes you through the various artifacts of Chef and explains the techniques of building full-fledged real-world solutions.

By Matthias Marschall

This book is meant for the Software Engineering team, Data Professionals, IT Operations and Application Development Team with prior knowledge in software development.

By Amit Johri, Dr. Kalpesh Parikh

This book is tailored for DevOps engineers, project managers, product managers, system implementation engineers, release managers, software developers, and system architects.

By Ashwini Kumar Rath

Confident DevOps guides you through the entire software development lifecycle. offering insights on key topics including system architecture and cyber security.

By Mark Peters

Use continuous Integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to improve the speed of software delivery. This book presents a game changer-how to use pipelines to automate the software delivery process.

By Henry van Merode

Concise and easy to follow, with a fully working Ruby on Rails app example, this book shows you how to set up the project, push it to DockerHub, manage services and set up an efficient continuous integration environment.

By Pablo Acuña

In the fast-paced world of software development, embracing DevOps practices is key to achieving rapid, reliable deployments. The DevOps Automation Cookbook equips you with a comprehensive toolkit to automate and streamline your workflows, from infrastructure provisioning to continuous integration and deployment.

By Ekambar Kumar Singirikonda

Software Developers, Software Architects, Infrastructure Engineers, Operation Engineers, Cloud Engineers, Quality Assurance (QA) Engineers, and all DevOps professionals across all experience levels to master efficient software delivery through proven design patterns.

By Pradeep Chintale

Describing how to streamline the software delivery process and improve the cycle, this practical and thorough guide will enable you to deliver software faster, in better quality and more aligned with individual requirements and basic conditions.

By Michael Hüttermann

Assisting leaders who are accountable for the rapid development of high-quality software applications, this concise guide shows you how to design, implement, measure, and improve DevOps programs that are tailored to your organization.

By Aruna Ravichandran, Kieran Taylor, Peter Waterhouse

Inside, DevOps evangelist Emily Freeman provides a roadmap for adopting the management and technology tools, as well as the culture changes, needed to dive head-first into DevOps.

By Emily Freeman

Whether you are a SharePoint architect, IT pro, or developer helping customers with the SharePoint platform, this book will teach you the most useful DevOps practices to tackle common issues and broaden your skill set.

By Ethan Schumann, Oscar Medina

This book's fast-paced, hands-on examples will provide the foundation you need to start performing common DevOps tasks.

By Bradley Smith

Laying out a roadmap to success for IT managers, this book shows how to create the right ecosystem, how to empower people to bring their best to work every day, and how to put the right technology in the driver's seat to propel your organization to success.

By Mirco Hering

Explaining what DevOps is and how it can help development teams, this important resource shows you how to help your organization implement DevOps, covering the tooling they will need and how to make everything work together while following best practices.

By Wouter de Kort

Investigating the complex intersection between DBA functions and DevOps processes, this book explains that as DBAs assimilate as DevOps team members, the movement advances and benefits customers, businesses, the IT industry, and the professional involved.

By Michael S. Cuppett

Giving you the confidence you need to take on Docker in the real world, this guide is the ultimate book for learning Docker, brought to you by Docker Captain and leading educator in the container ecosystem.

By Nigel Poulton

Giving you the confidence you need to take on Docker in the real world, this guide is the ultimate book for learning Docker, brought to you by Docker Captain and leading educator in the container ecosystem.

By Nigel Poulton

Including detailed references to key concepts, this comprehensive book shows you how agile adoption will enable your organization to stay ahead in an ever-changing business environment and meet your customers' needs.

By Shamayel M. Farooqui

Packed with examples and practical demonstrations, this book will help you deploy even large-scale, cross-platform web applications from development into production.

By Adam Freeman

Using real-world examples and reusable code, this book helps you get up to speed on the pros and cons of generic pipeline methodology, and learn to combine shell scripts and Docker to build generic pipelines.

By Brandon Atkinson, Dallas Edwards

Hands-on Ansible Automation is a comprehensive guide by expert Luca Berton that equips readers with the skills to proficiently automate configuration management, deployment, and orchestration tasks.

By Luca Berton

Intended for advanced readers interested in writing their own Tomcat modules or understanding more beyond servlet/JSP programming, this unique guide cracks open Tomcat 4 and 5 and reveals the internal workings of each component.

By Budi Kurniawan, Paul Deck

With valuable examples and practical instructions, this book provides a step-by-step implementation tutorial that equips you with high-level knowledge of configuring, deploying, extending, and integrating Splunk to bring machine-generated operational intelligence to your advantage.

By Vincent Bumgarner

Unleash the features available in Apache Tomcat server for creating, deploying, and managing Web applications.

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This book provides a comprehensive learning journey aimed at helping you master Ansible and efficiently automate a range of enterprise network devices, such as routers, switches, firewalls, Wireless LAN Controller (WLC), and Linux servers.

By Brendan Choi, Erwin Medina

A unique case study-driven approach to learning DevOps, this book includes a fun game that helps simulate an end-to-end product delivery process and visualize the bottlenecks in the value delivery flow.

By Dana Pylayeva

You will first gain an understanding of DevOps culture as well as how to adapt to IaC. Introduction to Infrastructure as Code begins by reviewing the innovative features that DevOps in general, and IaC in particular, have to offer for adoption and growth for different verticals. With this solid base established, you will then learn the importance, processes, and outcome of building infrastructure solutions.

By Riya Guha Thakurta, Sneh Pandya

By introducing concepts, tools, and ideas to reimagine governance, Investments Unlimited catalyzes a more humane way to enable high-velocity software delivery that is inherently more secure.

By Andres Vega, Bill Bensing, Caleb Queern, Helen Beal, Jason Cox, John Rzeszotarski, John Willis, Michael Edenzon, Tapabrata Pal

This book is for all IT students and professionals who want to manage or plan to administer the IT infrastructure. Knowing the basic Linux command-line would be good although not mandatory.

By Waqas Irtaza

A practical guide on using Kubernetes management patterns on CoreOS, this book discusses the ease of use provided by Kubernetes in developing and running applications in Pods and covers cloud platforms platforms, such as Amazon AWS EC2 and Google Cloud Platform.

By Deepak Vohra

Instead of the traditional Agile and DevOps approaches that focus on improving the effectiveness of teams, this thorough book targets the coordination of work across teams in large organizations-an improvement that executives are uniquely positioned to make.

By Gary Gruver, Tommy Mouser

This book is divided into three parts: the first explains what modern enterprise architecture is and why it's important to any business. It covers the different EA frameworks and explains what they are.

By Jeroen Mulder

This book is tailored for IT professionals, including system administrators, DevOps engineers, cloud architects, cloud security professionals, automation engineers, and network specialists seeking to leverage Ansible for automation.

By Pankaj Sabharwal

Part technology tutorial, part reference manual, and part psychology handbook, this practical guide shows you realistic ways to bring DevOps to your team when you don't have the flexibility to make sweeping changes in organizational structure.

By Jeffery D. Smith

Go from the basics of using Ansible to becoming proficient at implementing configuration management in your projects. This book uses a unique approach to teaching Ansible and configuration management while including realistic examples in its day-to-day use.

By Vincent Sesto

This book begins with the basics of Ansible, providing you with details on how to install and configure your environment while working with different Ansible modules from the command line.

By Vincent Sesto

Written for the programmer with some experience with an existing version control system (like CVS or Perforce), Practical Subversion explains and demonstrates how to apply that experience in the Subversion environment.

By Garrett Rooney

Examining the entire installation, including file system, database, and web server, this book describes configuration files, as well as administration features like security, auto-deployment, remote deployment, and data sources.

By Matthew Moodie

Showing you three crucial elements for achieving a faster software delivery pipeline, this book provides a step-by-step guide for creating a continuous delivery pipeline using all of the new features in Jenkins 2.0 such as Pipeline as a Code, multi-branch pipeline, and more.

By Nikhil Pathania

Showing you how to use DevOps principles with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to develop applications and services, this book builds chapter by chapter to a complete real-life scenario, explaining how to build, monitor, and maintain a complete application using DevOps in practice.

By Pierluigi Riti

In this fast-paced book on the Docker open standards platform for developing, packaging and running portable distributed applications, the author discusses how to build, ship and run applications on any platform such as a PC, the cloud, data center or a virtual machine.

By Deepak Vohra

Puppet provides a way to automate everything from user management to server configuration. This book will teach you how Puppet has changed in the latest version, how to use it on a variety of platforms, including Windows, how to work with Puppet modules, and how to use Hiera.

By Ben Kero, James Turnbull, Jeffery McCune, Spencer Krum, William Van Hevelingen

Taking you from basic usage and getting started, to provisioning with Shell, Puppet, and Chef, this indispensable book will show you how to use Vagrant in real-life scenarios, so that you can start to use Vagrant day-to-day in your work.

By W³odzimierz Gajda

Showing you how to streamline the work of web development and operations, this book provides unique insights into how systems, code, and process can all work together to make large-scale website development and operations ultra-efficient.

By Matthew Sacks

Describing the environment in which products are developed, realised and supported, this book will broaden the reader's understanding of product lifecycle management (PLM), nurturing the skills needed to implement PLM successfully and to achieve world-class product performance across the lifecycle.

By John Stark

Providing a line-by-line analysis of configuration options and exploring the features and capabilities, this comprehensive resource will help you uncover the ins-and-outs of installing, configuring, and running the Apache Tomcat server.

By Jeff Genender, Sing Li, Vivek Chopra

Authored by MVP Microsoft insiders to guide you step-by-step through all things Team Foundation Server (TFS), as well as help prepare you for the TFS Certification Exam, this book covers the latest updates for Agile Project Management, Test-Case Management, Release Management, the newly announced Visual Studio Online services, and shows new users the TFS workflow for managing and delivering products.

By Damian Brady, Ed Blankenship, Grant Holliday, Martin Woodward, Steven St. Jean

Introducing the powerful Puppet system administration tool, this book will guide you through its key features, showing you how to install and configure, create automated tasks, and even create reporting solutions and extend Puppet further to your needs.

By James Turnbull

This book starts with the basics of digital transformation before exploring how this works in practice: that is, people, processes and technology, and org structures. It delves into value streams that are the basis for ITIL and DevOps, highlighting the differences between the methods of the past and new methodologies needed to ensure products to meet contemporary expectations.

By Abhinav Krishna Kaiser

This book explores how the techniques of DevOps and security should be applied together to make cloud services safer.

By Julien Vehent

Presenting a quick, practical, problem-solving guide to automated testing web applications with Selenium WebDriver in C#, this book contains hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, as well as clear explanations and ready-to-run Selenium test scripts that you can use in your own projects.

By Zhimin Zhan

Offering a complete guide to implementing, operating, and maintaining a successful software configuration management (SCM) system for software development, this book presents not only the basics of SCM, but also the different phases in the software development lifecycle and how SCM plays a role in each phase.

By Alexis Leon

Providing practical, actionable, real-world guidance on implementing DevOps at enterprise scale, this book shows you how to get your organization on board so you can slip production into the fast lane and innovate your way to the top.

By Sanjeev Sharma

The second edition features 15 new case studies, including stories from Adidas, American Airlines, Fannie Mae, Target, and the US Air Force. In addition, renowned researcher and coauthor of Accelerate, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, provides her insights through new and updated material and research. With over 100 pages of new content throughout the book, this expanded edition is a must read for anyone who works with technology.

By Gene Kim, Jez Humble, John Willis, Nicole Forsgren, Patrick Debois

Featuring numerous case studies you can research and learn from, this book shows leaders how to create the cultural norms and the technical practices necessary to maximize organizational learning, increase employee satisfaction, and win in the marketplace.

By Gene Kim, Jez Humble, John Willis, Patrick Debois

In the book, you'll learn why DevSecOps is as much about people and collaboration as it is about technology and how it impacts every part of our cybersecurity systems.

By Sean D. Mack

Sharing the insights and expertise of 52 leading software measurement experts from 13 different countries, this text illustrates software measurement's role in new and emerging technologies, and presents measurement as a powerful tool for auditing and accountability.

By IFPUG (ed)

Complete with interesting characters, intriguing situations, and even some humor, this highly relatable book delivers a sound lesson in the importance of continuous testing while taking the reader inside the world of commercial aviation.

By Alex Martins, Aruna Ravichandran, Jeffrey Scheaffer

In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.

By Gene Kim, George Spafford, Kevin Behr

With practical, detailed examples that help to step you through the process, this hands-on resource gives you the raw materials and guidance required to get started using Chef with the Microsoft Azure toolset.

By Stuart Preston

This book is an academic publication about the global development of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and major MOOC platforms worldwide in the past decade, as well as the outlook of MOOCs in the future, with an emphasis on Greater China.

By Irwin King, Wei-I Lee

Dispelling the myth that Agile approaches to project management can only be used for software development, this book gives advice on how to combine the benefits of Agile and waterfall project management methodologies for successful project implementation.

By Colin Bentley

Written by renowned authors and researchers in the field, this invaluable resource presents detailed coverage of recent innovations in computer hardware, software, theory, design, and applications.

By Atif M. Memon (ed)

Written by renowned authors and researchers in the field, this invaluable resource presents detailed coverage of recent innovations in computer hardware, software, theory, design, and applications.

By Atif M. Memon (ed)

Agile takes a completely different approach to other project management methodologies that an organisation may be used to and changes the project audit and review processes.

By Christopher Wright

Effectively manage Apple devices anywhere from a handful of Macs at one location to thousands of iPhones across many locations. This book is a comprehensive guide for supporting Mac and iOS devices in organizations of all sizes.

By Drew Smith

Perfect for anyone learning Arduino or preparing to teach it to first-time users, this easy-to-follow book provides a fun introduction to the Arduino microcontroller by putting you into the action of a science fiction adventure story.

By Harold Timmis, James Floyd Kelly

If you've done some Arduino tinkering and wondered how you could incorporate the Kinect-or the other way around, this book will take you through a diverse range of projects that showcase the huge range of possibilities that open up when Kinect and Arduino are combined.

By Ciriaco Castro Díez, Enrique Ramos Melgar, Przemek Jaworski

We all know how awesome LEGO is, and more people are discovering the amazing things you can do with Arduino. In this guide, you'll learn how to combine two of the coolest things on the planet to make fun gadgets like a Magic Lantern RF reader, a sensor-enabled LEGO music box, and more.

By Jon Lazar

Presenting a quick, easy way to leap into the fascinating world of physical computing, this thorough resource equips you with everything you'll need to bring your ideas into the world and build your own Arduino project.

By John Nussey

Including troubleshooting tips and examples of inspiring projects, this detailed guide is written for artists, designers, hobbyists and anyone interested wanting to get started with Arduino.

By Stuart Yarnold

Offering a clear analysis of how the ATmega8 board works and when and where to use its derivatives, this guide integrates different skills and design techniques by presenting several projects that challenge you to put your newly-acquired skills to the test.

By Dale Wheat

If you want to learn more about how to create music, instruments, and sound effects with Arduino, this book brings you a fun and instructive mix and simple and complex projects to help you understand how the Arduino can work with the MIDI system to create musical instruments and manipulate sound.

By Mike Cook

A beginner-friendly collection of electronics projects using the low-cost Arduino board, this book is intended to help you build simple projects that will inspire you to create your own contraptions using the skills and techniques that you'll learn.

By Mark Geddes

Featuring an array of cool projects, this hands-on guide walks you through every step of each of the featured projects so that you can acquire a clear understanding of the different aspects of the Arduino board.

By Brock Craft

Showing you how to use Arduino to control a variety of different robots while providing step-by-step instructions on the entire robot building process, this book then moves into more complex projects including a GPS-enabled robot, a robotic lawn mower, a fighting bot, and even a DIY Segway-clone.

By Harald Molle, John-David Warren, Josh Adams

Featuring 65 practical projects throughout the book to reinforce what you've learned, this hands-on guide explains how Arduino's unlimited range of input and output add-ons work, and how to integrate them into your own projects.

By John Boxall

Easy-to-read and understand, this complete book provides sound knowledge of the basic concepts and includes theory, implementation, case studies, review questions, questions from GATE and numerous smart tips.

By Priyanka Rathee

With tips and an array of sample questions, as well as FAQs on ITIL(r), this comprehensive resource will prepare you for the ITIL(r) Foundation examination and give you the knowledge required to pass with flying colors.

By Abhinav Krishna Kaiser

With tips and an array of sample questions, as well as FAQs on ITIL(r), this comprehensive resource will prepare you for the ITIL(r) Foundation examination and give you the knowledge required to pass with flying colors.

By Abhinav Krishna Kaiser

Helping you learn all about the popular Arduino by working your way through a set of 50 cool projects, this book moves from beginner to intermediate and will enable you to complete your own projects confidently and with creativity.

By Michael McRoberts

Using fun, hands-on projects, learn what a circuit is and how it works! This book uses a common tool in electronics, the breadboard, to build your way to an understanding of circuits, circuit components, and the basics of computers.

By Jennifer Fox

Whether you are a student on a budget or a company exploring R & D options for 3D printing, this full color go-to-guide will provide the right tools and techniques to ensure 3D printing success.

By Joe Micallef

By explaining how to use SketchUp and its plug-ins to make your design products, this book will show you how to present and animate 3D models, and how to use Google Earth and 3D Warehouse to sell and market your 3D models.

By Sandeep Singh

This book explores the most recent Edge and Distributed Cloud computing research and industrial advances, settling the basis for Advanced Swarm Computing developments. It features the Swarm computing concepts and realizes it as an Ad-hoc Edge Cloud architecture.

By Ana Juan Ferrer

Exploring the benefits of blade servers and virtualization, this book clearly shows you why they are rapidly becoming key foundation building blocks for the next generation of data centers.

By Anne Skamarock, Barb Goldworm

Taking you through the assembly process in a simple, can-do language, this illustrated, hands-on guide will help you choose the best components to build the computer you want with the satisfaction of doing it yourself.

By Mark L. Chambers

If you're a small business owner looking for a reliable email server, a curious Windows administrator, or if you just want to put that old computer in the closet to work, this book will show you how to get your server up and running quickly.

By Bryan J. Hong

Offering a guidebook for the eager-to-learn Arduino enthusiast that teaches logically, methodically, and practically how the Arduino works and what you can build with it, this book gives you an incredibly strong foundation of Arduino-based device development, from which you can go in any direction according to your specific development needs and desires.

By Adeel Javed

Presenting a sample chapter from the full-text book, this document provides details on how to undertake an assessment, while the COBIT PAM provides details on the basis for the assessment.

By ISACA

Presenting a sample chapter from the full-text book, this publication builds on the COBIT 5 framework by focusing on risk and providing more detailed and practical guidance for risk professionals and other interested parties at all levels of the enterprise.

By ISACA

Using COBIT 5 and its components, this guide provides a good-practice approach for implementing governance of enterprise IT (GEIT) based on a continual improvement life cycle that should be tailored to suit the enterprise's specific needs.

By ISACA

COBIT 5 is the overarching business and management framework for governance and management of enterprise IT. This volume documents the five principles of COBIT 5 and defines the 7 supporting enablers that form the framework.

By ISACA

Providing a structured way of thinking about information governance and management issues in any type of organization, this comprehensive guide addresses the information model attributes and life cycle that are introduced in the COBIT 5 framework.

By ISACA

Including extensive guidance on enablers for governance and management of enterprise IT, this book complements COBIT 5 and contains a detailed reference guide to the processes defined in the COBIT 5 process reference model.

By ISACA

Containing the results of a detailed mapping of ITIL V3 with COBIT 4.1 as well as a classification of the standards, this document provides a brief overview of the standards mapped against each other.

By IT Governance Institute

Presenting a sample chapter from the full-text book, this publication examines COBIT 5 from a security view, placing a security lens over the concepts, enablers and principles within COBIT 5.

By ISACA

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Jean Andrews

This fully revised and updated resource offers complete coverage of the latest release of CompTIA A+ exams 220-1101 & 220-1102. You'll find learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice exam questions, and in-depth explanations. Designed to help you pass the CompTIA A+ exams with ease, this definitive guide also serves as an essential on-the-job IT reference.

By Andrew Hutz, Mike Meyers, Travis A. Everett

Written by the leading authority on CompTIA A+ certification and training, this self-study book has been thoroughly updated to cover 100% of the exam objectives on the 2015 CompTIA A+ exams, and also serves as a practical reference for IT support and technical personnel.

By Mike Meyers

Written by the leading authority on CompTIA A+ certification and training, this self-study book has been thoroughly updated to cover 100% of the exam objectives on the CompTIA A+ exams, and also serves as a practical reference for IT support and technical personnel.

By Mike Meyers

Featuring nine minibooks in one comprehensive volume, this book focuses individually on specific hardware and OS characteristics including installation and configuration, diagnostics, preventive maintenance, motherboard and processors, printers, networking, and fundamentals.

By Ed Tetz, Glen E. Clarke

Fully updated for the latest revision of the exam, this friendly, hands-on guide, provides you with everything you need to pass the test, and more importantly, to succeed in your job.

By Ed Tetz, Glen E. Clarke, Timothy Warner

Fully updated for the latest revision of the exam, this friendly, hands-on guide, provides you with everything you need to pass the test, and more importantly, to succeed in your job.

By Ed Tetz, Glen E. Clarke, Timothy Warner

Filled with hands-on exercises with accompanying videos, and with hundreds of practice questions including performance-based types, CompTIA A+(tm) Certification Study Guide, Eleventh Edition (Exams 220-1101 & 220-1102) covers what you need to know-and shows you how to prepare-for these challenging exams.

By Faithe Wempen

Written by a leading expert on CompTIA A+ certification and training, this self-study book has been thoroughly updated to cover 100% of the exam objectives on the 2015 CompTIA A+ exams.

By Faithe Wempen, Jane Holcombe

With hundreds of accurate practice questions and hands-on exercises, this highly effective study system for the CompTIA A+ exams teaches you what you need to know-and shows you how to prepare-for these challenging tests.

By Faithe Wempen, Jane Holcombe

In CompTIA A+ CertMike: Prepare. Practice. Pass the Test! Get Certified! Core 1 Exam 220-1101, veteran tech experts and educators Mike Chapple and Mark Soper deliver a hands-on and practical roadmap to taking-and succeeding on-the CompTIA A+ Core 1 exam.

By Mark Soper, Mike Chapple

In CompTIA A+ CertMike: Prepare. Practice. Pass the Test! Get Certified!Core 2 Exam 220-1102, veteran tech experts and educators Mike Chapple and Mark Soper deliver a hands-on and practical roadmap to taking-and succeeding on-the CompTIA A+ Core 2 exam.

By Mark Soper, Mike Chapple

Presenting the ultimate preparation tool for exams 220-901 and 220-902, this book covers 100% of the objectives for both exams so you can avoid surprises on exam day, and offers practical insights and examples drawn from real-world experiences give you a glimpse into life on the job.

By Emmett Dulaney, Quentin Docter, Toby Skandier

Taking you step by step through the tasks a PC technician is likely to face on any given day, this hands-on manual incorporates various roadblocks that may occur on the job and explains ways to successfully complete the task at hand.

By James Pyles

The Third Edition of the CompTIA A+ Complete Practice Tests: Core 1 Exam 220-1101 and Core 2 Exam 220-1102 offers aspiring and practicing computer technicians essential and practical exam prep material for the industry favorite A+ certification.

By Audrey O'Shea, Jeff T. Parker

Test your knowledge and know what to expect on A+ exam day.

By Jeff T. Parker, Quentin Docter

This book covers mobile devices, networking, hardware, virtualization and cloud computing, hardware and network troubleshooting, operating systems, security, software troubleshooting, and operational procedures.

By Troy McMillan

Updated to reflect the revised exams, this comprehensive resource is your ideal solution for preparing for exams 220-1001 and 220-1002 and provides you with extra review and reinforcement of key topics you'll see on the exam.

By Troy McMillan

Updated to reflect the revised exams, this comprehensive resource is your ideal solution for preparing for exams 220-901 and 220-902 and provides you with extra review and reinforcement of key topics you'll see on the exam.

By Troy McMillan

The book presents material on mobile devices, hardware, networking, virtualization and cloud computing, network, hardware, and software troubleshooting, operating systems, security, and operational procedures.

By Jon Buhagiar, Quentin Docter

Whether a first-time candidate or IT professional in need of recertification, this essential study guide will help you prepare, practice, and pass with minimal burden and maximum results.

By Jon Buhagiar, Quentin Docter

Covering 100% of exam objectives, this one-stop resource will help you prepare for the exam smarter and faster with assessment tests that check exam readiness, real-world scenarios, hands-on exercises, key topic exam essentials, and challenging chapter review questions.

By Emmett Dulaney, Quentin Docter, Toby Skandier

Practice tests are an excellent way for certification candidates to prepare for taking exams, and the well-crafted questions and detailed answers you'll find in this unique guide will help give you the confidence to succeed on exam day.

By Quentin Docter

This book covers 100% of the exam objectives in clear and concise language and provides you authoritatively with all you need to know to succeed in the exam.

By Quentin Docter

A powerful exam preparation tool and an ideal on-the-job reference, this effective study guide offers complete coverage of every exam objective and provides more than 200 accurate practice questions.

By Mike Meyers, Scott Jernigan

Featuring practical examples, exam highlights and review questions that provide real-world applications and uses, this comprehensive, authoritative study guide covers 100% of the exam objectives in clear and concise language, and offers all you need to know to succeed in the exam.

By Quentin Docter

With an assessment test to show you where you need to focus, lab exercises and review questions in every chapter, and practice exams to test your knowledge, this clear and concise study guide will prepare you to pass the exam on the first try.

By Quentin Docter

With learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice exam questions, and in-depth explanations throughout. this effective self-study system delivers 100% coverage of every topic on the CompTIA IT Fundamentals+ exam.

By Dan Lachance, Mike Meyers, Scott Jernigan

In CompTIA ITF+ CertMike: Prepare. Practice. Pass the Exam! Get Certified! Exam FC0-U61, experienced tech education guru Mike Chapple delivers an essential and efficient guide to acing the ITF+ (IT Fundamentals+) exam administered by CompTIA.

By Mike Chapple

Featuring practical examples, exam highlights, and review questions to enhance your learning experience, this essential resource offers complete, authoritative coverage of the Strata exam objectives in clear and concise language.

By Andrew Smith

This interactive study guide will support candidates in developing fundamental knowledge and understanding of the basics of computer and network technology, processor architecture and networks, and with an introduction to operating systems and system software.

By Carl Jones, Gary Thornton

Whether you're a student, a professional, or simply a tech enthusiast, after reading this book, you'll grasp the milestones of computer architecture and be able to engage directly with the technology that defines today's world. Prepare to be inspired, challenged, and above all, see and experience the digital world, hands-on

By Charles Fox

Designed to provide the reader with the fundamentals of computers and MIS in an easy to understand, "self-teaching" format, this book includes discussion of information systems, ERP, security, business ethics, and cybercrime.

By C.P. Gupta, K.K. Goyal

This widely popular book is designed to introduce its readers to important concepts in Computer Science.

By Pradeep K. Sinha, Priti Sinha

Including examples highlighting the latest processor designs, benchmarking standards, languages and tools, this book focuses on the revolutionary change taking place in industry today: the switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors.

By David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy

Detailing a comprehensive approach to configuration management from a variety of product development perspectives, including embedded and IT, this resource provides authoritative advice on how to extend products for a variety of markets due to configuration options.

By Jon M. Quigley, Kim L. Robertson

Designed to help enterprises create a homogenous view of configuration management (CM) and implement a sustainable process, this book describes the most important challenges and formulates mitigating actions that are supported by COBIT 5 practices to manage configuration successfully.

By ISACA

A helpful reference guide for Help Desk operation and management.

By Andrew Hiles, Yvonne Gunn

Published with AVIXA(r), CTS-D(r) Certified Technology Specialist-Design Exam Guide, Second Edition provides comprehensive coverage of all exam objectives on the leading internationally recognized certification for audiovisual design professionals.

By AVIXA Inc., Andy Ciddor

Customized Production Through 3D Printing in Cloud Manufacturing explains how to combine the latest cloud manufacturing and additive manufacturing technology to find innovative solutions to important problems in research and industry.

By Lin Zhang, Longfei Zhou, Luo Xiao

This comprehensive book, titled "Digital and Technological Solutions: Exploring the Foundations," is a valuable resource for undergraduate students across a wide range of disciplines.

By Faheem Syeed Masoodi, Khalid Bashir Dar, Zubair Sayeed Masoodi

Dive Into Systems is a vivid introduction to computer organization, architecture, and operating systems that is already being used as a classroom textbook at more than 25 universities.

By Kevin C. Webb, Suzanne J. Matthews, Tia Newhall

Providing the beginner with a coherent and logical introduction to the hardware and software of the PIC32, this essential book aims get you started quickly while eliminate "magic steps" that prevent a deep understanding of how the software you write connects to the hardware.

By Kevin M. Lynch, Matthew L. Elwin, Nicholas Marchuk

Featuring hands-on examples and exercises using Open Source codebases, this book combines a timely and thorough overview of firmware solutions for the rapidly evolving embedded ecosystem with in-depth coverage of requirements and optimization.

By Jiming Sun, Marc Jones, Stefan Reinauer, Vincent Zimmer

Providing an introduction to each of the component parts of an operating system, this easy-to-follow text describes the procedure for building each component in detail, guiding the reader through the process of creating a fully functional GNU/Linux embedded operating system.

By Alan Holt, Chi-Yu Huang

Provides a roadmap for embedded system startups, demonstrates how to develop tools for 21 platforms, and more.

By Ed Sutter

Helping you identify current strengths and weaknesses of your enterprise IT governance processes, this practical, no-nonsense book explains IT governance and why it is important, along with tips for creating a strong governance, risk, and compliance IT systems process.

By Robert R. Moeller

AVR is the brain that runs Arduino, but you don't need the whole Arduino board to do fun projects. This handy guide shows you how to create a spiffy set of projects that you can build to learn more about electronics, about AVR, and just to generate new ideas for your own projects.

By Alan Trevennor

Including perfectly paced lessons that walk you through useful, artistic, and educational exercises, this unique guide uses the popular Arduino microcontroller platform as an instrument to teach you about topics in electrical engineering, programming, and human-computer interaction.

By Jeremy Blum

Based on hundreds of hours of research and dozens of interviews with experts from a broad range of industries, this book offers readers an informative, engaging and fast-paced introduction to 3D printing now, and what it will be in the future.

By Hod Lipson, Melba Kurman

An essential guide to modern circuit board design based on simple physics and practical applications, this invaluable resource fills the gap in knowledge by providing clear, down-to-earth guidance on designing digital circuit boards that function at high clock rates.

By Ralph Morrison

Packed with crisp black-and-white photographs and illustrations, as well as flowcharts, this practical guide will walk you step-by-step through all aspects of troubleshooting, upgrading, and repairing a PC.

By Corey Sandler

Featuring dozens of examples, more than 100 hands-on exercises, and numerous suggestions for further reading, this class-tested text encompasses the whole BPM lifecycle, including process identification, modelling, analysis, redesign, automation and monitoring.

By Hajo A. Reijers, Jan Mendling, Marcello La Rosa, Marlon Dumas

This book has been specifically designed for anybody and everybody who wants to be familiar with basic concepts of computers.

By Reema Thareja

Whether you have been toying with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for years or are completely new to these reprogrammable devices, this book will teach you to think like an FPGA engineer and develop reliable designs with confidence.

By Russell Merrick

Written for IT service managers, consultants and other practitioners in IT governance, risk and compliance, this practical book discusses all the key concepts of COBIT(r)5, and explains how to direct the governance of enterprise IT (GEIT) using the COBIT(r)5 framework.

By Geoff Harmer

Including specific use cases for Green IT, this must-read resource provides a broad collection of practical techniques and methodologies for designing, building and implementing a green technology strategy in any large enterprise environment.

By Babak Akhgar, Colin Pattinson, Mohammad Dastbaz

Starting you on the road to saving money while you help save the planet, this guide is packed with cost-saving ways to make your company a leader in green technology, and case studies from organizations that have gone green show you how to do it.

By Arnold Reinhold, Carol Baroudi, Jeffrey Hill, Jhana Senxian

Whether you're looking to sustainably manage and procure IT assets, ethically recycle hardware, or use IT to enable carbon footprint reduction, this book offers advice on how to incorporate sustainable practices into your business strategy.

By BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

Unique in its integration of individual topics to achieve a full-system approach, this invaluable book addresses all the aspects essential for industrial inkjet printing.

By Werner Zapka (ed)

Learn how to create good requirements when designing hardware and software systems. While this book emphasizes writing traditional "shall" statements, it also provides guidance on use case design and creating user stories in support of agile methodologies.

By George Koelsch

Focusing on the greening of IT and greening by IT, this book examines various ways of making computing and information systems greener as well as several means of using Information Technology (IT) as a tool and an enabler to improve the environmental sustainability.

By G.R. Gangadharan (eds), San Murugesan

Improve productivity, service to customers, and more with this comprehensive guide.

By Andrew Hiles, Yvonne Gunn

Learn about computer science by exploring the fascinating journey it took to make this book!

By John Whitington

How Computers Really Work is a hands-on guide to the computing ecosystem: everything from circuits to memory and clock signals, machine code, programming languages, operating systems, and the internet.

By Matthew Justice

You don't need an advanced degree or a black belt in Six Sigma methodologies to improve your IT project results. Using the proven methods in this book, your future IT projects will have a greater chance of being on time, on budget, and higher quality.

By Susan Snedaker

This interactive study guide will support candidates in developing fundamental knowledge and understanding of data management, systems analysis and design, information flow within organisations, and the impact of emerging trends in information technology.

By Ian Huke, Stephen Mariadas

Providing an overview of topics relating to solid state drives(SSDs), this second edition takes readers through the fundamentals and brings them up to speed with the most recent developments in the field, and is suitable for advanced students, researchers and engineers alike.

By Alessia Marelli, Rino Micheloni

Written for scientists and application developers and professionals in related fields, this book is a guide to the most recent developments in intelligent computer systems that are applicable to the healthcare industry.

By Arun Kumar Sangaiah, Padma Theagarajan, S. P. Shantharajah

Containing schematic diagrams and source codes with detailed descriptions, this volume features 15 original applications working on the PIC microcontroller, including lighting diodes, communication with RS232, working with PWM module and others.

By Bohdan Borowik (ed)

Introduction to Computer Organization gives programmers a practical understanding of what happens in a computer when you execute your code.

By Bob Plantz

Including a case study and examples that demonstrate how key concepts are applied in practice, this valuable book helps project managers, CIOs, and project sponsors understand PM environments so projects can be managed efficiently and successfully.

By Cynthia Snyder, Frank Parth

Aimed at IT professionals who have been tasked with putting in place Asset Management disciplines, this guide provides a commonsense introduction to the key processes outlined in the ITIL, before proceeding to explain the various milestones of an Asset Management project.

By Martyn Hobbs

Aimed at aspiring IT professionals, this invaluable book strips down a network to its bare basics, and discusses this complex topic in a clear and concise manner so that IT beginners can confidently gain an understanding of fundamental IT concepts.

By Joey Alpern, Naomi J. Alpern, Randy Muller

Reading like a conversation on IT service management with plenty of insight and coaching, this book shows you how to integrate well-known concepts, methods and processes from ITIL and COBIT, combining the best from each approach.

By Brian Johnson, Walter Zondervan

Discussing the fundamental principles and core concepts critical to your success as a new IT Manager, this book provides a practical reference that you will return to again and again in an ever-changing corporate environment where the demands on IT continue to increase.

By Bill Holtsnider, Brian D. Jaffe

This handbook shows how to avoid cost overruns and schedule delays, meet customer requirements, take control of budgets and resource allocation, and much more. The GovEssentials collection from Books24x7 is offered in partnership with Management Concepts.

By Jag Sodhi, Prince Sodhi

Addressing leadership issues in the IT industry to help IT practitioners lead from the lowest level, this in-depth book includes a case study to show how to put leadership principles and practices into action and how an IT geek can transform into an effective IT geek leader.

By Byron A. Love

Explaining how to successfully manage an IT project and prepare for CompTIA Project+ certification, this step-by-step guide offers proven methods for initiating a project, selecting team members, conferring with management, setting realistic timetables, and more.

By Joseph Phillips

Examining the similarities and differences of release management and project management, this complete resource clearly illustrates the effective implementation of a release process in the real world.

By Dave Howard

Building on their collective, extensive service management experience, the authors of this book walk you through essential concepts of service management including the service lifecycle, processes, functions, and roles, and illustrate these with real-life examples.

By Aidan Lawes, Ernest Brewster, John Sansbury, Richard Griffiths

Providing students with the information they need to pass the exam, this practical resource includes additional guidance throughout which you can lean on once your training and exam are over.

By Claire Agutter

"ITIL 4 Drive Stakeholder Value" provides essential knowledge and capabilities for service management professionals, focusing on the engagements between a service provider and its customers, users, suppliers and partners, and how demand is converted into value via IT-enabled services.

By Claire Agutter

This book contains everything you need to know to pass the ITIL 4 Foundation Exam and more.

By Claire Agutter

Containing everything you need to know to pass the ITIL 4 Foundation Certificate, this book covers practices and concepts that are not addressed as part of the Foundation syllabus, making it ideal for newly qualified practitioners.

By Claire Agutter

This book is based on the official AXELOS ITIL(R) 4: High-velocity IT publication and the associated High-velocity IT Managing Professional syllabus. It provides students with the information they need to pass the High-velocity IT exam, and help them become a successful practitioner.

By Claire Agutter

Whether you are taking an ITIL 4 Foundation training course or are a self-study candidate, new to the framework or looking to trade your ITIL 2011 certification, this guide is the essential companion.

By Claire Agutter

Whether you are taking an ITIL 4 Foundation training course or are a self-study candidate, new to the framework or looking to trade your ITIL 2011 certification, this guide is the essential companion.

By Claire Agutter

By taking otherwise complex textual descriptions and making it accessible in a series of consistent, simple diagrams, this important book can help you implement ITIL(r) as a vehicle for improving IT service quality and improve return on investment for IT services.

By John O. Long

The majority of this book is based on Create, Deliver and Support Managing Professional syllabus.

By Claire Agutter

Whether you need to identify your customers' needs, design and implement a new IT service, or monitor and improve an existing service, this official guide provides a support framework for IT-related activities and the interactions of IT technical personnel with business customers and users.

By Peter Farenden

Featuring practical exercises, real-world examples, and more than 300 practice exam questions, this comprehensive study guide offers tips, reviews, and self-tests at the end of each chapter ensure that you are on track to pass the exam.

By Jim Davies

Presenting a straightforward distillation of critical information, this easy-to-use guide will help you understand the key concepts and terminology required to pass the ITIL(r) Foundation exam.

By Claire Agutter

Presenting 100% of the Foundation exam objectives in clear, concise language, this comprehensive resource provides you with all the background information, expert, in-depth reviews, learning aids, and practice you need to pass the exam with flying colors.

By Helen Morris, Liz Gallacher

Using clear and concise language and illustrative examples throughout, this useful study guide is the ultimate companion for certification candidates, giving you everything you need to know in a single informative volume.

By Helen Morris, Liz Gallacher

By addressing processes and concepts not covered in the syllabus, this essential guide goes beyond the information required to pass the ITIL(r) foundation exam to provide practical guidance for newly qualified practitioners entering the real world.

By Claire Agutter

The ITIL 4 Create, Deliver and Support (CDS) reference and revision guide is one of five ITIL 4 revision aids published by TSO, following on from the ITIL 4 Foundation revision guide.

By itSMF UK

This revision guide will help all those who are preparing to take their ITIL 4 Foundation examination.

By IT Service Management UK

The ITIL 4 Direct, Plan and Improve (DPI) reference and revision guide is one of five ITIL 4 Managing Professional titles published by TSO, following on from the ITIL 4 Foundation revision guide.

By itSMF UK

Bringing big ideas down to earth for the everyday reader, this in-depth resource provides a comprehensive look at the various theories and metrics that define ITSM.

By ClydeBank Media

ITSM Value Streams is a comprehensive guide to organizations on how to effectively utilize IT services to achieve business outcomes.

By Akshay Anand, David Billouz, Mark Smalley, Rajiv Dua

This book emphasis on the basics (if you're new to laptops) all the way up to the latest hardware and tech updates-including the recent release of Windows 10. Along the way you'll learn how to synchronize your laptop with other machines, coordinate email pickup across devices, and beef up your security.

By Dan Gookin

This book assists project management professionals in resolving project crashing situations through linear programming.

By Partha Majumdar

Saturated with fascinating, sometimes hard-to-believe real-life examples, this book is an MIS fundamentals text written in an engaging visual, magazine format designed to intrigue your students from the start.

By Paige Baltzan

This book introduces ITIL and the ITIL management strategies, and explains how these processes help in managing IT infrastructure.

By

This book provides a comprehensive guide to managing the ServiceNow platform effectively, from the core architecture concepts to scripting and integration.

By Felix Acosta

An updated edition of the best tips and tools to plan, build, and execute a structured test operation.

By Rex Black

Including step-by-step guidelines, case studies and real-world scenarios, this book covers core testing concepts and thoroughly examines the best test management practices and tools of leading hardware and software vendors.

By Rex Black

Helping you get the most out of your 3D printer, this exciting book shows you all of the technical details you need to know to go beyond simple model printing to make your 3D printer work for you as a prototyping device, a teaching tool, or a business machine.

By Joan Horvath

Readable and easy to understand, this book is your guide to the many technology options available now in both software and hardware, as well as a compendium of practical use cases and a discussion of how to create experiences that will align with curriculum standards.

By Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron

Get the most out of your printer, including how to design models, choose materials, work with different printers, and integrate 3D printing with traditional prototyping to make techniques like sand casting more efficient.

By Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron

This book provides best practices for laser cutters, 3D printers, CNC mills, vinyl cutters, and more.

By Daniele Ingrassia, Jean-michel Molenaar

Outlining a process-based approach for setting up effective IT infrastructures in organizations, this unique reference provides a thorough discussion on conducting a feasibility study for setting up IT infrastructure, sizing of IT components, and quality assurance.

By Murali Chemuturi

In this advanced guide to hardware hacking, you'll learn how to read the software out of single chip computers, especially when they are configured not to allow the firmware to be extracted.

By Travis Goodspeed

Useful for the preparation of competitive exams such as IES, AMIET, GATE, public sectors and others, this book covers programming of 8085 and 8086 in detail with a number of solved examples.

By Abhishek Yadav

Delving into areas such as fundamental Windows 7 administration concepts and various desktop OS topics, this invaluable resource addresses the skills necessary for individuals looking to break into a career in IT.

By Tom Carpenter

Thoroughly updated to cover 2015 exam objectives, this quick review guide teaches the skills necessary to take the 220-901 and 220-902 exams with complete confidence. You will get full details on hardware and OS technologies, including installation, configuration, diagnostics, and preventive maintenance.

By Mike Meyers, Scott Jernigan, Travis A. Everett

Fully redesigned and updated to provide accelerated review of all the topics covered on the new Core 1 and Core 2 CompTIA A+ exams, this quick review guide takes you on your exam preparation path, providing expert tips and sound advice along the way.

By Mark E. Soper, Mike Meyers

Get on the fast track to becoming CompTIA A+ certified with this affordable, portable study tool. Inside, certification training gurus Mike Meyers and Ron Gilster guide you on your exam preparation path, providing expert tips and sound advice along the way.

By Mike Meyers, Ron Gilster

Get on the fast track to becoming CompTIA A+ certified with this affordable, portable study tool. Inside, certification training gurus Mike Meyers and Ron Gilster guide you on your exam preparation path, providing expert tips and sound advice along the way.

By Mike Meyers, Ron Gilster

Containing more than 130 labs that challenge you to solve real-world problems by applying key concepts, this hands-on book provides complete materials lists, setup instructions, start-to-finish lab scenarios, and post-lab questions measure your knowledge.

By Faithe Wempen, Mike Meyers

Bestselling CompTIA A+ author Mark E. Soper and Series Editor Mike Meyers provide a comprehensive update to this hands-on lab manual that covers the 2022 update to the exams

By Mark Soper, Mike Meyers

Containing more than 140 labs that challenge you to solve real-world problems by applying key concepts, this hands-on book provides complete materials lists, setup instructions, start-to-finish lab scenarios, and post-lab questions to measure your knowledge.

By Mark Edward Soper, Mike Meyers

Written by the leading authority on CompTIA A+ certification and training, this full-color guide will help you become a certified IT professional with proven expertise in hardware and software, and help you pass CompTIA A+ exams 220-901 and 220-902.

By Mike Meyers

Mike Meyers' CompTIA A+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting PCs, Seventh Edition (Exam 220-1101 and 220-1102) covers core hardware and operating system technologies, including installation, configuration, preventive maintenance, and networking.

By Andrew Hutz, Mike Meyers, Travis A. Everett

Written by the leading authority on CompTIA A+ certification and training, this full-color guide will help you become a certified IT professional with proven expertise in hardware and software, and help you pass CompTIA A+ exams 220-1001 and 220-1002.

By Mike Meyers

Presenting complex concepts in a lucid, easy-to-understand style, this comprehensive text offers a splendid example for the balanced, integrated treatment of systems and software engineering, helping readers tackle the hardest problems of advanced real-time applications in embedded systems.

By K. SrinIvasa Reddy

While providing a detailed view of state-of-the-art mainline technologies that are currently being produced in high volume, this all-inclusive book also explores less-exposed and alternate technologies that may emerge in the future.

By Joe Brewer, Manzur Gill (eds)

Assuming readers are familiar with basic data structures, computer organization, and a high-level language, such as C or Java, this current, relevant guide provides a clear description of concepts that underlie operating systems based on those used in both commercial and open-source operating systems.

By Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, Peter Baer Galvin

Including contemporary examples of how operating systems function, as well as end-of-chapter problems, exercises, and review questions, this text bridges the gap between concepts and actual implementations to provide a solid theoretical foundation for understanding operating systems.

By Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, Peter B. Galvin

Designed as a "teach-yourself" text, this useful resource provides a step-by-step approach to clarify all of the key concepts, architectures, and components of operating systems.

By G. Verma, R. Garg

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Joel Rosenthal, Kevin Irwin

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Jean Andrews

This under-the-hood guide explains how to resolve typical PC troubleshooting and upgrade issues.

By Barry Press, Marcia Press

An applications-oriented introduction to the PCI bus, this book places emphasis on implementing PCI in a variety of computer architectures and gives special attention to industrial and mission-critical applications of PCI bus.

By Doug Abbott

From the most basic things like turning on your PC and setting the date and time to setting up and using a wireless network, this fun, easy to follow book provides simple steps that will lead you to fast results.

By Nancy C. Muir

Arduino is a brilliant prototyping platform that allows users to test and iterate design ideas. This comprehensive guide will teach you to follow the engineering process carefully so you will be able to review and improve this process, and even extend its scope.

By Harold Timmis

Demonstrating a wide variety of techniques that can be applied to your own projects, this hands-on guide shows you how to create your own Arduino-based designs, gain in-depth knowledge of the architecture, and learn the user-friendly Arduino language.

By Hugh Blemings, Jonathan Oxer

Written in a friendly question-and-answer format, this guide explains how to set up a technical service management structure, using the best practice framework established by the latest version of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL(r)).

By Thejendra B.S

Offering a systematic approach to understanding reverse engineering, with hands-on exercises and real-world examples, this book covers x86, x64, and advanced RISC machine (ARM) architectures as well as deobfuscation and virtual machine protection techniques.

By Alexandre Gazet, Bruce Dang, Elias Bachaalany

Based on three leading service management approaches, COBIT5, ISO/IEC 20000, and ITIL(r), this practical book presents a holistic view of the three and enables service managers to immediately adapt and deploy the guidance, quickly improving their ITSM function.

By Mark Thomas, S. D. Van Hove

Providing a thorough examination of both theoretical and practical concepts, this non-traditional book introduces the basic principles and concepts of operating systems and allows students to carry out experiments related to the various concepts discussed.

By Jose M. Garrido, Kenneth Hoganson, Richard Schlesinger

Offering a comprehensive account of this interesting and growing research field, this book provides an introduction to printed batteries and the current state of the art on the different types and materials, as well as the printing techniques for these batteries.

By Carlos Miguel Costa, Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez

Written for Arduino fans, technogeeks, and electronic artists who want to take their skills to the next level, this easy-to-read guide will teach you about new tools, techniques, and frameworks to make even more ground-breaking, eye-popping projects.

By Dan Cervo, Rick Anderson

Relevant to all sizes of organisation, this book addresses the social, legal, financial, organisational and ethical issues faced by IT professionals, in alignment with the BCS HEQ ‘Diploma in IT' core module: Professional Issues in Information Systems Practice.

By Frank Bott, Neil Taylor

Perfect for students and scholars of project management in business and engineering programs, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling will also earn a place in the libraries of anyone studying for the PMP(r) exam, as well as practicing project managers, project consultants, and trainers.

By Harold Kerzner

Quick Start Guide to FFmpeg is for anyone who needs to edit or process multimedia files including studio professionals, broadcast personnel, content creators, podcasters, librarians, archivists and webmasters.

By V. Subhash

This book bridges the gap between higher abstract modeling concepts and the lower-level programming aspects of embedded systems development. You gain a solid understanding of real-time embedded systems with detailed examples and industry wisdom.

By Carolyn Yao, Qing Li

Showing how operations can be run with automation and minimal resources, this book explains the ready-to-use new ITIL framework that is sought after in most organizations and contains tips on how DevOps and ITIL can be linked together.

By Abhinav Krishna Kaiser

Based on the real-life experience of the author and other ITSM practitioners, this book explains the common pitfalls of release and deployment in fictional form, with each chapter describing a difficult meeting with a different department head and featuring a set of pointers that our hero would have found beneficial.

By Daniel McLean

Providing practical guidance on how to use COBIT 5 for Risk to solve current business issues, this publication provides a high level overview of risk concepts, along with over 50 complete risk scenarios covering all 20 categories described in COBIT 5 for Risk.

By ISACA

Describing how to design reliable embedded systems for harsh environments, this contributed work discusses multiple layers that involve firmware, operating systems, and applications, as well as power management units and communication interfaces.

By Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Augusto Vega, Pradip Bose

Regain control of your budget and schedule with this groundbreaking, fully integrated book that provides all the information and the Open Source tools for you to use to achieve IT SOX compliance.

By Christian B. Lahti, Roderick Peterson

A practical reference for the Service Availability Forum specifications, this book gives a cohesive explanation of the founding principles, motivation behind the design of the specifications, and the solutions, usage scenarios and limitations that a final system may have.

By Francis Tam (eds), Maria Toeroe

Identifying some benefits and pitfalls an organisation can encounter when negotiating and drafting SLAs, this concise guide provides an overview of SLAs, highlighting typical scenarios that can arise, and provides information on typical solutions that have been adopted by other organisations.

By Jimmy Desai

Drawing from military standard 973, this book introduces the software configuration framework for managing the evolution of computer systems throughout all stages of systems development.

By Jessica Keyes

Providing in-depth coverage of Software Defined Networking (SDN), this book shows how to explain to business decision-makers the benefits and risks in shifting parts of a network to the SDN model, when to integrate SDN technologies in a network, and how to develop or acquire SDN applications.

By Chuck Black, Paul Göransson, Timothy Culver

Focusing on the importance of software quality and security, this book defines various types of testing, recognizes factors that propose value to software quality, and provides theoretical and real-world scenarios that offer value and contribute quality to projects and applications.

By Abu Sayed Mahfuz

Ideal for project managers, business analysts, and senior decision makers in both the public and private sectors, this book offers everything you need to ensure your projects run smoothly, on budget, and deliver the expected outcomes.

By Christian B. Smart

Helping you avoid the teething problems that can spoil your users' onboarding experience with ServiceNow, this detailed guide will show you how to quick-start ServiceNow in a matter of days with the minimum configuration required to start processing tickets via email.

By Gabriele Kahlout

This new book discusses important concerns for the development of systems from the perspective of information technology, information systems, and software systems engineering.

By Andrew P. Sage

By applying theories, models, and concepts synthesized from existing research in other fields, this book examines proven practices, legal issues, dealing with customers, utilizing resources, and various topics of interest to tech support professionals.

By Andres R. Sanchez

Delivering advice through a Ten-Step approach, this book will help those looking to transform the role of IT into a value-creating business partner, to establish a service management culture, and to drive improvements in their respective organizations.

By Angelo Esposito, Timothy Rogers

Presenting a careful, in depth, non-engineering introduction to the inner workings of modern computer systems, this book aims to provide the fundamentals of computer architecture which are essential to the workplace survival of Information Systems graduates.

By Irv Englander

The Architecture of Computer Hardware, Systems Software and Networking is designed help students majoring in information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) understand the structure and operation of computers and computer-based devices. Requiring only basic computer skills, this accessible textbook introduces the basic principles of system architecture and explores current technological practices and trends using clear, easy-to-understand language.

By Irv Englander, Wilson Wong

Presenting a set of metrics that will bring many benefits to both the IT department and the business as a whole, this invaluable book provides details of the attributes of each metric, enabling you to make the right choices for your business.

By Kurt McWhirter, Ted Gaughan

Covering all the issues of interest to designers working with, or contemplating a move to FPGAs in their product designs, this comprehensive book introduces the various architectural features available in the latest generation of FPGAs.

By Clive "Max" Maxfield

For those who aren't afraid of digging into the technical details, this book presents a comprehensive guide to designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting any Serial Advance Technology Attachment (SATA) or SATA Express (SATAe) storage solution.

By David A. Deming

Giving managers the guidance they need to handle any problem effectively, this sophisticated and comprehensive book provides specific policies, approaches, and tools for each critical IT management function.

By John Baschab, Jon Piot

This book looks at our understanding of climate change and the impact that IT systems have through their constant demand for electrical power from increasingly over-stressed electrical grids and ever-rising energy costs.

By ​Mike Halsey

With highly detailed passages on the ins and outs of manufacturing and a comprehensive take on the issues associated with open source hardware, this practical guide is an invaluable resource for aspiring hackers and makers.

By Andrew Huang

Written in an easy-to-use question-and-answer format, this information-packed resource covers all aspects of managing an IT project, from initial organizational issues to closeout.

By David Pratt

Whether you're an individual, part of an IT support team, or managing staff supporting PC users in their homes, this book will help you understand the right way to approach, troubleshoot, and isolate problems so they can be handled efficiently, with least disruption and cost to your business.

By Mike Halsey

Providing advice and techniques which apply unilaterally to every IT service provider and ITSM framework, standard, and maturity model, this book offers detailed guidance on assessing, designing, measuring, and integrating ITSM processes.

By Donna Knapp

The Service Desk Handbook: A guide to service desk implementation, management and support provides operational guidance for implementing, managing and supporting service desks in the enterprise.

By Sanjay Nair

Defining what a USD is, why it is valuable to an organization and how to build and implement one, this book provides the tools and insight to further develop and professionalize the USD within your company.

By Brian Johnson, Léon-Paul de Rouw

Applying the COBIT 5 framework and its component publications to transforming cybersecurity in a systemic way, this book will enable a uniform governance, risk management and security management framework for enterprises and other organizations.

By ISACA

This book puts all this frustration behind you and gets you straight to work solving the problem yourself!

By Dan Gookin

Intended for the hobbyist, student, educator, or engineer, this hands-on guide shows, step by step, how to build, debug, and troubleshoot a wide range of analog electronic circuits.

By Ronald Quan

With practical examples and implementation guidance based on proven techniques, this essential book considers the challenges facing today's enterprise, IT's critical role in value creation, and the practical road map for achieving strategic IT management competencies.

By Pieter M. Ribbers, Robert J. Benson, Ronald Blitstein

Look beyond the basics of Mac programming and development to become a Mac power user. This book approaches working directly in the terminal with fun projects and ideas to help turn you into an advanced Mac user.

By Daniel Platt

Bridging the gap between all operating systems, this clever guide describes and illustrates every command in every commonly used operating system, and cross-references each command to the equivalent commands in other operating systems.

By Guy Lotgering

Explore how Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) has transformed the audio landscape. This book describes the rationale behind moving to LE audio, the potential power savings, and how various specifications need to be linked together to develop a final end product.

By Himanshu Bhalla, Oren Haggai

Whether you want to prepare your computer for Windows 7, avoid investing in a new one, or just "go green," this fully illustrated guide will show you how to add printers and new keyboards, boost performance and increase memory, improve power consumption, and much more.

By Andy Rathbone

Providing a mapping to compare Val IT to MSP, PRINCE2 and ITIL V3, this publication shows practitioners of these frameworks how they are complementary and is particularly useful when implementing multiple frameworks.

By ISACA

Including practical sample templates and checklists as well as a detailed case study, this concise guide describes the vendor management process and its activities and then presents the most common threats, risk and mitigation actions.

By ISACA

Covering everything from the most likely use cases, spectrum aspects, and a wide range of technology options to potential 5G system architectures, this book is an indispensable reference for academics and professionals involved in wireless and mobile communications.

By Afif Osseiran, Jose F. Monserrat, Patrick Marsch

Get up to speed on 5G and prepare for the roll out of the next generation of mobile technology.

By Rajaneesh Sudhakar Shetty

Appealing to both industry practitioners and academic researchers, this innovative resource describes both the standards features of New Radio and the mathematical models/open research issues for 5G.

By Amitav Mukherjee

5G NR and Enhancements: From R15 to R16 introduces 5G standards, along with the 5G standardization procedure.

By Hai Tang, Jia Shen, Ning Yang, Zhi Zhang, Zhongda Du

After an initial discussion of the background to 5G, including requirements, spectrum aspects and the standardization timeline, this book describes all technology features of the first phase of NR in detail.

By Erik Dahlman, Johan Sköld, Stefan Parkvall

This book A one-stop reference that offers an accessible guide to an understanding of the enhanced core technologies of 5G.

By Jyrki T. J. Penttinen

Based on the knowledge and consensus from researchers and experts from around the globe, this book provides an overview of the latest research and standardization progress towards the 5th generation (5G) of mobile communications technology and beyond.

By Mauro Boldi, Olav Queseth, Patrick Marsch, Ömer Bulakçi

This book on 5G technology starts with the evolution of mobile networks to 5G. It then addresses basic concepts and technologies such as NGN, IMS, virtualization with NFV and MEC, SDN, and Service Function Chaining.

By Ulrich Trick

This book weaves emerging themes in future 6G and Next G networks carefully together. It points to three spheres of contexts with different narratives for the year 2030 and beyond, in which the coming Metaverse as the precursor of the future Multiverse can be embedded naturally.

By Martin Maier

Offering insight on how the IPv6 ‘Internet of Things' fit together into a complete architecture, this book provides a complete overview of IPv6 over Low Power Wireless Area Network (6LoWPAN) technology.

By Carsten Bormann, Zach Shelby

Demonstrating how to configure equipment in order to implement various network solutions, this unique and highly practical text introduces the principles of WLANs based upon the IEEE 802.11 standards.

By Alan Holt, Chi-Yu Huang

Fully addressing the most critical WLAN and Wireless IP issues today, this practical book provides guidance on deployment, insights on interworking with 3G mobile communications systems, and discussions on the market and business aspects of WLANs.

By Anand R. Prasad, Neeli R. Prasad

Communication is the backbone of life, in all its spheres, and Networks form the essence of any such interchange. This book aims to provide an in-depth understanding on network technologies that have continued to revolutionize the world of communication.

By Rachna Sharma, Sudipto Das

Without assuming prior knowledge of telecommunications or routing protocols, this book provides an introduction to multicast routing, which is the study of methods for routing from one source to many destinations, or from many sources to many destinations.

By Eric Rosenberg

With simple steps, easy troubleshooting, and online resources, this friendly and approachable guide will help you learn and understand how you can perform a wide range of tasks on your new Windows computer.

By Wallace Wang

Providing a solid introduction and going on to discuss internetworking technologies, architectures and protocols, this book also shows the application of the concepts in next generation networks and discusses protection and restoration, as well as various tunnelling protocols and applications.

By Christian Vogt, Eiji Oki, Mallikarjun Tatipamula, Roberto Rojas-Cessa

The book includes clear descriptions of planning techniques for different integrated femto/pico/micro/macrocell deployments.

By Nathan Blaunstein

Including many supporting illustrations and tables along with a valuable set of references at the end of each chapter, this book introduces Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) systems, their architectures, and projects.

By F. Richard Yu (ed)

Featuring contributions from leading experts in this field, this book discusses the major research advances in mobile cloud computing systems and covers different aspects of modeling, analysis, design, optimization, and architecture.

By F. Richard Yu, Victor C.M. Leung (eds)

Investigating the latest theories, methods, and technologies, this forward-looking book provides the insight of a recognized expert into the fundamental concepts and contemporary challenges in network management.

By Jianguo Ding

The foremost resource for those looking to make themselves IP subject matter experts, this comprehensive, impressive guide presents readers with detailed information to prepare them for various sections of the Service Routing Architect certification, and to familiarize them with topics and learning material for three of the SRA written exams.

By Ghassan Shaheen, Glenn Warnock, Mira Ghafary

Using a task-based approach focusing on what information needs to be extracted, then on how to do it, this book provides a guide to both basic and advanced techniques and algorithms for extracting useful information from network data.

By François Fouss, Marco Saerens, Masashi Shimbo

Covering all of the objectives of the CCIE Data Center 400-151 V2.1, this methodical and precise book contains practice quizzes, study plans, and blog articles to help you further prepare for the exam and the real world.

By Paul Adam

For CCNP and CCNA professionals, and recent candidates who would prefer an in-depth review, this all-purpose CCIE study guide methodically and precisely covers all of the objectives of the CCIE R&S Written Exam 400-101 (V5.1)

By Paul Adam

For CCNP and CCNA professionals, and recent candidates who would prefer an in-depth review, this all-purpose CCIE study guide methodically and precisely covers all of the objectives of the CCIE R&S Written Exam 400-101 (V5.1)

By Paul Adam

For CCNP and CCNA professionals, and recert candidates who would prefer an in-depth review, this all-purpose CCIE study guide methodically and precisely covers all of the objectives of the CCIE Routing and Switching Written Exam 400-101 (V5.1).

By Paul Adam

Containing Exam Essentials sections to help reinforce key concepts to pass the exam, this all-purpose CCIE study guide methodically and precisely covers all of the objectives of the CCIE Service Provider Written Exam 400-201.

By Paul Adam

Carefully covering all exam topics with core concepts, configuration snippets (where applicable), and topic summaries, this study guide will help you master the skills so you can confidently face the pressures of the Cisco exam as well as their real-world application.

By Muhammad Afaq Khan

Helping you comprehensively prepare for the DEVASC exam, this book covers the subjects with core concepts, code snippets, and topic summaries to help you master the skills so you can confidently face the pressures of the Cisco exam as well as its real-world application.

By Muhammad Afaq Khan

Including all of the topics from Cisco's official exam blueprint, this book carefully covers the content with core concepts, code snippets and topic summaries to help you master the skills so you can confidently face the pressures of the Cisco exam as well as their real-world application.

By Muhammad Afaq Khan

Carefully covering all exam topics with core concepts, configuration snippets (where applicable), and topic summaries, this study guide will help you master the skills so you can confidently face the pressures of the Cisco exam as well as their real-world application.

By Muhammad Afaq Khan

Including all of the topics from Cisco's official exam blueprint, this book carefully covers the content with core concepts, code snippets and topic summaries to help you master the skills so you can confidently face the pressures of the Cisco exam as well as their real-world application.

By Muhammad Afaq Khan

The book's approach provides a comprehensive, end-to-end overview of the 5G standard, which enables readers to move on with confidence to the more specialized texts and to the specifications themselves.

By Christopher Cox

Giving a clear explanation of what LTE does and how it works, this book covers the whole of the system, both the techniques used for radio communication between the base station and the mobile phone, and the techniques used to transfer data and signalling messages across the network.

By Christopher Cox

This book provides a detailed "how-to" guide, addressing aspects ranging from analysis and design to the implementation of applications, which need to be integrated within legacy applications and databases.

By Arthur M. Langer

Written by an antenna engineer turned professor who has worked at Apple, Nokia and Amphenol, this comprehensive guide instructs readers through all aspects of real world antenna designs, and emphasizes key parameters of antenna optimization.

By Zhijun Zhang

Providing an essential guide to becoming a Network Security Monitoring (NSM) analyst from the ground up, this practical book takes a fundamental approach, complete with real-world examples that teach you the key concepts of NSM.

By Chris Sanders, Jason Smith

Explaining the practice and methodologies that are necessary to solve a broad range of problems in network system design, this book exposes major challenges in network systems architecture and divulges their solutions.

By Dimitrios Serpanos, Tilman Wolf

Written in a compelling, conversational manner, this insightful book advises those who buy, install, and support all types of computing and communications technology, empowering them to optimize their systems in new and innovative ways.

By Stephen J. Andriole

Written with the goal of supporting those involved in the design and deployment of multimedia VoIP projects, this comprehensive guide shows readers how to prepare the network and exploit the technology to its full potential.

By David Gurle, Jean-Pierre Petit, Olivier Hersent

By identifying key features and functionality in BGP, this guide focuses on real-world problems and provides not only design solutions, but also the background on why they are appropriate and a practical overview of how they apply into a top-down design.

By Micah Bartell, Randy Zhang

Taking a fresh look at biometrics and identity management within a fast-changing world, this accessible and thought-provoking work is an essential guide for biometric systems integrators, professional consultancies, government agencies and other consumers of biometric technology.

By Julian Ashbourn

Offering a wide, current selection of information to students, chemists, safety officers and others concerned with the safe handling and use of reactive chemicals, this volume assesses the potential for reaction of chemical compounds or reaction systems.

By P.G. Urben (ed)

Designed to be customized by the IT audit and assurance professionals, this review offers the tools and techniques, along with methodologies and templates that provide direction in the application of IT audit and assurance processes.

By ISACA

The increasing use of personal devices such as smartphones and tablets in the workplace is offering an opportunity as well as a challenge for organisations, particularly the IT department. This book examines ways to embrace the benefits, while offering advice on how to minimise the risks.

By BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

Authored by experts in the field, this in-depth and comprehensive book provides an overview of all forms of broadband subscriber access networks and technology, including fiber optics, DSL for phone lines, DOCSIS for coax, power line carrier, and wireless.

By Arvind R. Raghavan, Stefano Galli, Steve Gorshe, Thomas Starr

Focusing on broadband distribution and systems architecture, this book emphasizes practical concepts that will allow readers to do their own design, improvement and troubleshooting work.

By David Large, James Farmer

Authored by EMC Proven Professionals, Knowledge Sharing articles present ideas, expertise, unique deployments, and best practices. This article examines new products Brocade has introduced that enhance storage area network (SAN) internetworking through Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) technologies.

By Joe Holbrook

This guide will help you understand how to design, plan, implement, maintain, secure, and test a DMZ segment using a variety of technologies.

By Damiano Imperatore, Thomas W. Shinder, Will Schmied, et al.

Including hands-on exercises to reinforce critical concepts, this book combines the foundational concepts with practical exercises to provide a well-grounded approach to networking in business today.

By Alan Dennis, Alexandra Durcikova, Jerry Fitzgerald

Providing the fundamental concepts and cutting-edge coverage of applications that students need to succeed in their careers, this book offers a balanced presentation from which new technologies and applications can be easily understood, evaluated, and compared.

By Alan Dennis, Alexandra Durcikova, Jerry Fitzgerald

With a concise and direct analysis of how to implement a scalable, profitable venture, this book focuses on both the business implications and technical differences between rich media and traditional broadcast distribution.

By Dan Rayburn, Michael Hoch

Covering risk assessment and mitigation strategies for a BYOD that are in line with medical laws, regulations, ethics, and the HIPAA and HITECH Acts, this book examines the broad range of technical considerations, including selection, connectivity, training, support, and security.

By Jessica Keyes

Fully updated for the growing demand of fiber optics for large-scale communications networks and telecommunication standards, this comprehensive resource will help you develop the skills you need to design and build a reliable, cost-effective cabling infrastructure.

By Andrew Oliviero, Bill Woodward

With loads of screenshots and illustrations and easy step-by-step instructions, this book will teach you how to use Cacti effectively to monitor your network through its web interface, leaving aside all the heavy chunks of code.

By Dinangkur Kundu, S. M. Ibrahim Lavlu

Including examples of real networks from diverse applications in automotive engineering, avionics, and home heating technology, this book presents thorough coverage of architectures, implementations and application of CAN transceiver, data link layer and so-called higher layer software.

By Wolfhard Lawrenz

Featuring hints, step-by-step descriptions, troubleshooting advice and exam tips, this guide covers everything you need to know to pass the CCENT Exam 640-822, including networking basics and how to work with Cisco devices, routers, switches, and more.

By Glen E. Clarke

Featuring an Exam Readiness checklist, Two-Minute Drills for quick review at the end of each chapter, as well as hundreds of practice questions and hands-on exercises, this authoritative guide covers what you need to know - and shows you how to prepare - for this challenging exam.

By Bob Larson, Matt Walker

Authored by leading Cisco networking authority Todd Lammle, this comprehensive study guide includes hands-on labs, real-world scenarios, and challenging review questions to help you prepare for - and pass - exam ICND1, the required exam for all CCENT candidates.

By Todd Lammle

Authored by industry expert and Cisco networking guru Todd Lammle, this authoritative study guide provides 100% coverage of the ICND1 (#100-101) exam objectives, from operating IP data networks to troubleshooting and network security, and more.

By Todd Lammle

Providing 100% coverage of all exam objectives with hands-on practice and robust study aids, this comprehensive guide offers conceptual and practical study tools, and gives you everything you need to pass the CCENT with flying colors.

By Todd Lammle

Helping you put your own theoretical knowledge of subjects into practice to find out how they interact with each other on a larger complex scale, this book presents three full configuration lab scenarios in exam style format to echo the real CCIE exam.

By Martin J. Duggan

Giving you the opportunity to put your own extensive theoretical knowledge into practice, this guide presents you with two full troubleshooting lab scenarios in exam style format to echo the real CCIE Routing and Switching v4.0 lab exam.

By Martin Duggan

If you're planning to advance your career by taking the all-important Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), this guide features all the concepts and topics on which you'll be tested, covering the latest version of the exam.

By Silviu Angelescu

Preparing you for the NEW Cisco CCNA certification exam, this comprehensive guide provides you with real-world examples, hands-on activities, in-depth explanations, and numerous review questions to ensure that you're fully prepared on exam day.

By Todd Lammle

With hundreds of practice questions, an Exam Readiness Checklist, and hands-on, step-by-step exercises, this authoritative guide covers what you need to know-- and shows you how to prepare--for these challenging exams.

By Richard Deal

Providing lively examples, hands on and written labs, easy-to-understand analogies, and real-world scenarios, this comprehensive guide will not only help you prepare for the exam, but also give you a solid foundation as a Cisco networking professional.

By Todd Lammle

Guiding you through 100% of all exam objectives with expanded coverage of key exam topics, and hands-on labs that help you become confident in dealing with everyday challenges, this comprehensive study resource will help you prepare for and pass the entire second (and final) exam required for certification.

By Todd Lammle, Todd Montgomery

Giving you the knowledge and confidence to pass the exam and advance your career, this complete study guide covers topics including operating IP data networks, understanding switching and routing technologies, working with IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, and troubleshooting.

By Todd Lammle