HTML5/CSS3, Java Programming Book Excerpts Available for Free Download

Murach Publishing, which specializes in programming books for professionals, is offering three excerpts from two of its latest titles to ESJ readers for free download.

Murach’s Java Programming has been updated to the SE 7 edition. It explains the Java skills you’ll use every day and covers object-oriented features such as inheritance, interfaces, and polymorphism in an understandable and useful way. We’re offering two chapters from this book: Chapter 1- How to get started with Java and NetBeans and Chapter 2- Introduction to Java programming.

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IBM Study Highlights Data Center Efficiencies

How do you know if you’re running an efficient data center? A new report from IDC commissioned by IBM explains what separates the efficient enterprises from the inefficient ones.

Although the full report won’t be released until April, IBM released a preview of some of the results this week. The 65-question survey asked about key efficiency measures (everything from budgets and networks information to storage management and governance).

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IBM Study Says Cloud Driving Fundamental Business Innovation

The number of enterprises using cloud computing to overhaul their business models will more than double within three years, according to a new IBM study. “Businesses that embrace the transformative power of cloud will have a significant advantage in the race to introduce new products and services and capture new markets and revenue streams.”

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Growing Bandwidth Demands Weigh Heavy on Network Admins

If you manage networks, the fifth annual State of the Network Global Study, released today by Network Instruments will likely verify what you already know: bandwidth demands are rising -- and rising quickly. One-third of the 163 network professionals (located around the world) questioned say bandwidth consumption will grow by more than half within the next two years.

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IT: Fundamentals Trump Technology in Hackett Group Study

Cloud computing and virtualization may be taking a back seat in IT priorities this year according to the latest annual survey of key IT issues released recently. In fact, getting back to IT fundamentals will be vital to helping enterprises reach their goals, but it won’t be easy. The Hackett Group’s latest report, 2012 IT Key Issues: Coming to Terms with the “New Normal,” found that among its Advisory Program members, volatility is part of the new business landscape. In the present global economy, financial uncertainty abounds.

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Are Mainframe Problems Being Ignored?

How well prepared for mainframe skills leaving your IT department? If you’re like the enterprises sampled in a new Compuware survey, the answer is -- probably not well.

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SharePoint Security: Users Say No

The results of a new survey sponsored by Cryptzone, a threat-management solutions provider, should have security and SharePoint administrators worried. Although 92 percent of SharePoint users know that sharing data outside of SharePoint is risky for their enterprise, almost a third (30 percent) of those surveyed were willing to do so, saying they weren’t “bothered if it helps me get the job done.” One-third of survey participants (34 percent) admitted that they “never really thought about the security implications of SharePoint,” and 13 percent said that protecting company data wasn’t their job.

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Why Performance Management Systems Aren’t Meeting IT’s Needs

According to a new global survey of 150 IT operations managers conducted by eG Innovations, IT professionals managing service performance “in transformational IT environments” find it difficult to keep up “with the performance management requirements of virtualized IT infrastructures.”

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