This guide to managing bandwidth and quality of service (QOS) in enterprise networks offers techniques for cutting costs, enhancing performance, deploying next-generation applications, handling peak loads, and maximizing the value of the network. The authors discuss real-time classification and packet handling as well as the systems and processes that are part of building and maintaining a bandwidth-managed network. Seven case studies describe specific network situations of various sizes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Managing Bandwidth: Deploying Across Enterprise Networks

Computers & Technology

Croll, Alistair

Packman, Eric

Certification

PRENTICE/HALL

Do you really understand your online presence? Are you confident that visitors can use your website? Do you know their motivations? How do online communities perceive your company? To innovate and adapt your business quickly, you must know the answers to these questions. Complete Web Monitoring demonstrates how to measure every aspect of your web presence -- including analytics, backend performance, usability, communities, customer feedback, and competitive analysis -- whether you're running an e-commerce site, a community, a media property, or a Software-as-a-Service company. This book's concrete examples, clear explanations, and practical recommendations make it essential for anyone who runs a website. With this book you will:
<ul>
<li>Discover how visitors use and interact with your site through web analytics, segmentation, conversions, and user interaction analysis</li>
<li>Find out your market's motivations with voice-of-the-customer research</li>
<li>Measure the health and availability of your website with synthetic testing and real-user monitoring</li>
<li>Track communities related to your online presence, including social networks, forums, blogs, microblogs, wikis, and social news aggregators</li>
<li>Understand how to assemble this data into clear reports tailored to your organization and audience</li>
</ul>
You can't fix what you don't measure. Complete Web Monitoring shows you how to transform missed opportunities, frustrated users, and spiraling costs into online success. "This is a very comprehensive view of just about everything one needs to know about how websites work and what one needs to know about them. I'd like to make this book required reading for every employee at Gomez."-- Imad Mouline, CTO of Gomez

Complete Web Monitoring: Watching your visitors, performance, communities, and competitors

Power, Seán

Computer Science

O'Reilly Media

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

Business & Money

Yoskovitz, Benjamin

Education & Reference

Marc Andreesen once said that "markets that don't exist don't care how smart you are." Whether you're a startup founder trying to disrupt an industry, or an intrapreneur trying to provoke change from within, your biggest risk is building something nobody wants. Lean Analytics can help. By measuring and analyzing as you grow, you can validate whether a problem is real, find the right customers, and decide what to build, how to monetize it, and how to spread the word. Focusing on the One Metric That Matters to your business right now gives you the focus you need to move ahead--and the discipline to know when to change course. Written by Alistair Croll (Coradiant, CloudOps, Startupfest) and Ben Yoskovitz (Year One Labs, GoInstant), the book lays out practical, proven steps to take your startup from initial idea to product/market fit and beyond. Packed with over 30 case studies, and based on a year of interviews with over a hundred founders and investors, the book is an invaluable, practical guide for Lean Startup practitioners everywhere.

Every year, tens of thousands of companies--from industry giants to aspiring upstarts--apply to speak at conferences. They pump millions of dollars into these events, hoping to find new customers, strengthen their brand, and meet new partners. Sadly, for most of them, things don't go that way. Submitted topics aren't chosen; when they are, they come across as tone-deaf sales pitches. What does it take to be chosen to speak--and to rock the mic when given the chance? This book takes you behind-the-scenes of the conference process, showing you how to submit, plan, and deliver a talk that matters. Event organizer Alistair Croll provides many examples based on his experience with a wide range of conferences, including O'Reilly's Strata, Velocity, Web2Expo, and TOC Conferences. 
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<li>Learn 11 items that help your submission stand out--and 11 items that will get it tossed </li>
<li>Explore the hurdles your proposal has to clear before it's accepted </li>
<li>Tailor your talk to a conference's topics and themes </li>
<li>Discover why images work better than words in your slide deck </li>
<li>Achieve your business goals by engaging the audience before, during, and after your talk</li>
</ul>

Propose, Prepare, Present: How to Become a Successful, Effective, and Popular Speaker at Industry Conferences

Software

Lean Analytics: Cómo utilizar los datos para crear más rápido una startup mejor (Spanish Edition)

Management & Leadership

UNIR EDITORIAL

Técnicas de monitorización Web (Spanish Edition)

Networking & Cloud Computing

Anaya Multimedia

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