As technology evolves, there is a never-ending question to designers and implementers: "What is coming next?" The answer is "Collaboration." The move to collaboration is strengthened by the actions of Cisco and Microsoft, as they have each unveiled several collaborative technologies and the means to integrate them utilizing Web 2.0 programming. 

Software installation failures frustrate customers and increase a software company's support costs. But the more complex your application's installation requirements, the more difficult it is to build a reliable, professional installer. 

This one minute flash video and accompanying interactive pdf will introduce you to the concept of a virtual software factory. Check out the interactive pdf for information and links to the solutions behind the factory, including links to some of our newest ROI calculators. 

View the December issue of Cisco trainings available in this latest Nxtbook. Inside you'll find a complete listing of dozens of courses offered in routing and switching, data center and storage, optical networking, security and much more. 

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely inventory small or large IT environments without requiring the installation of any agent software. This paper explains how to utilize it to "map" your infrastructure for Windows 7 and Server 2008. 

One of the most challenging topics for many CCNA candidates is subnet masking. This white paper will de-mystify the math behind subnetting, and provide examples of shortcuts that bypass the need for binary when doing calculations involving subnet masks. 

There is a well-spring of features and capabilities of Microsoft's Exchange Server 2007 messaging platform. The longer you use it, the more treasures you can pull up from the deep. In this paper, we'll look at and discuss five things you probably don't know about Exchange Server 2007. 

In this white paper, we examine how to use Wireshark, the world's most popular open-source network analyzer, to troubleshoot some of the top causes of poor network performance, including high latency, packet loss, inefficient window sizes, intercepting devices, and application dependencies. 

With spending on cost-saving technologies such as virtualization rising, and the maintenance of networking and enterprise Microsoft software keeping IT professionals constantly in demand, here's our top 10 hot skills that will take us from a down economy and beyond. 

This paper helps us to understand the importance of desktop search tools fit in the universe of Microsoft search tools. 

This paper takes an introductory look at the new categories of Group Policy, but anyone moving to Windows Server 2008 technologies would do well to consider the changes and additions to the existing policy categories, too. 

LINQ is an acronym which stands for Language Integrated Query. This new technology comes built into the .NET Framework 3.5 and can be used with any of the different languages that run under .NET. This paper serves as an introduction.