With scores of step-by-step solutions, this cookbook helps you work with VMware ESXi in a wide range of network environments. You’ll not only learn the basics—how to pool resources from hardware servers, computer clusters, networks, and storage, and then distribute them among virtual machines—but also how to overcome the stumbling blocks you’ll encounter when you monitor systems, troubleshoot problems, and deal with security.This expanded second edition covers recent advances in vC...

Large IT organizations increasingly face the challenge of integrating various web services, applications, and other technologies into a single network. The solution to finding a meaningful large-scale architecture that is capable of spanning a global enterprise appears to have been met in ESB, or Enterprise Service Bus. Rather than conform to the hub-and-spoke architecture of traditional enterprise application integration products, ESB provides a highly distributed approach to integration,...

You may regard cloud computing as an ideal way for your company to control IT costs, but do you know how private and secure this service really is? Not many people do. With Cloud Security and Privacy, you'll learn what's at stake when you trust your data to the cloud, and what you can do to keep your virtual infrastructure and web applications secure.Ideal for IT staffers, information security and privacy practitioners, business managers, service providers, and investors a...

Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach, Second Edition, teaches students how to program massively parallel processors. It offers a detailed discussion of various techniques for constructing parallel programs. Case studies are used to demonstrate the development process, which begins with computational thinking and ends with effective and efficient parallel programs. This guide shows both student and professional alike the basic concepts of parallel programming and G...

Revised and updated with improvements conceived in parallel programming courses, The Art of Multiprocessor Programming is an authoritative guide to multicore programming. It introduces a higher level set of software development skills than that needed for efficient single-core programming. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the new principles, algorithms, and tools necessary for effective multiprocessor programming. Students and professionals alike will benefit from thorough cove...

Over 100 effective recipes to help you design, implement, and manage the software-defined and massively scalable Ceph storage systemKey Features\[\*\]Implement a Ceph cluster successfully and gain deep insights into its best practices\[\*\]Harness the abilities of experienced storage administrators and architects, and run your own software-defined storage system\[\*\]This comprehensive, step-by-step guide will show you how to build and manage C...

How can Apache Mesos make a difference in your organization? With this practical guide, you’ll learn how this cluster manager directs your datacenter’s resources, and provides real time APIs for interacting with (and developing for) the entire cluster. You’ll learn how to use Mesos as a deployment system, like Ansible or Chef, and as an execution platform for building and hosting higher-level applications, like Hadoop.Author David Greenberg shows you how Mesos manages your entire d...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionJulia is a well-constructed programming language with fast execution speed, eliminating the classic problem of performing analysis in one language and translating it for performance into a second. This book will help you develop and enhance your programming skills in Julia to solve real-world automation challenges. This book starts off with a refresher on installing and running Julia on different platforms. Next, you will co...

GPU programming in MATLAB is intended for scientists, engineers, or students who develop or maintain applications in MATLAB and would like to accelerate their codes using GPU programming without losing the many benefits of MATLAB. The book starts with coverage of the Parallel Computing Toolbox and other MATLAB toolboxes for GPU computing, which allow applications to be ported straightforwardly onto GPUs without extensive knowledge of GPU programming. The next part covers built-in, GPU-enab...

Unleash the full potential of ServiceNow from foundations to advanced functions, with this hands-on expert guide fully revised for the Helsinki versionKey Features\[\*\] Give your ServiceNow Helsinki implementation a powerful kick-start by understanding the deep capabilities of the platform,\[\*\] Learn by doing with an extended, comprehensive example, creating a feature-rich, secure and automated application from the ground up\[\*\] Interact w...

Get a problem-solution approach enriched with code examples for practical and easy comprehensionKey FeaturesExplore the use of more than 40 best-of-breed plug-ins for improving efficiencySecure and maintain Jenkins 2.x by integrating it with LDAP and CAS, which is a Single Sign-on solutionEfficiently build advanced pipelines with pipeline as code, thus increasing your team's productivityBook DescriptionJenkins 2.x is one of t...

Speed up the software delivery process and software productivity using the latest features of JenkinsKey FeaturesTake advantage of a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery solution to speed up productivity and achieve faster software deliverySee all the new features introduced in Jenkins 2.x, such as Pipeline as code, Multibranch pipeline, Docker Plugin, and moreLearn to implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery by orches...