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This unique, go-to guide for designers fully details the essential layout and design skills needed to succeed in this competitive industry. With fun and practical application, it offers valuable insight into strategy and business when working in the real world with real clients, starting with basic information on layout principles before delving more deeply into theory and application on a project-by-project basis. Illustrated with real-world assignments and case studies, this guide offers a behind-the-scenes take on the entire process and steps necessary to go from concept to final outcome, including how to overcome challenges presented along the way....

Whether your network is a complex carrier or just a few machines supporting a small enterprise, JUNOS High Availability will help you build reliable and resilient networks that include Juniper Networks devices. With this book's valuable advice on software upgrades, scalability, remote network monitoring and management, high-availability protocols such as VRRP, and more, you'll have your network uptime at the five, six, or even seven nines -- or 99.99999% of the time.Rather than focus on "greenfield" designs, the authors explain how to intelligently modify multi-vendor networks. You'll learn to adapt new devices to existing protocols and platforms, and deploy continuous systems even when reporting scheduled downtime. JUNOS High Availability ...

Apply industry-accepted best practices to design reliable high-performance datacenters for your business needs with this book and ebook. Overview Learn how to utilize the robust features of VMware to design, architect, and operate a virtual infrastructure using the VMware vSphere platform Customize your vSphere Infrastructure to fit your business needs with specific use-cases for live production environments Explore the vast opportunities available to fully leverage your virtualization infrastructure In Detail vSphere allows you to transform your IT infrastructure into a private cloud, then bridge it to public clouds on-demand, delivering an IT infrastructure as an easily accessible service. vSphere delivers uncompromised control over all IT resou...

Software Development is moving towards a more agile and more flexible approach. It turns out that the traditional "waterfall" model is not supportive in an environment where technical, financial and strategic constraints are changing almost every day. But what is agility? What are todays major approaches? And especially: What is the impact of agile development principles on the development teams, on project management and on software architects? How can large enterprises become more agile and improve their business processes, which have been existing since many, many years? What are the limitations of Agility? And what is the right balance between reliable structures and flexibility? This book will give answers to these questions. A strong ...

Learn the best ways to install and administer a Debian Linux distribution Overview An in-depth look at Debian administration subjects Discover what distinguishes Debian from other Linux distributions Learn how to install, maintain, and administer Debian Linux In Detail Debian is one of the most popular Linux-based operating systems, with over 37 thousand software packages available in several architectures. Debian 7 is the latest version of this universal operating system and provides the foundation for thousands of web servers. It is easy to install, stable, and provides mechanisms for system security. Debian 7: System Administration Best Practices provides valuable background information, tips, and advice on the major areas of installing, maintai...