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. 

Presence can be defined as the indication, based on user-provided information, on whether co-workers are available and how they prefer to be reached. We will discuss an option that will allow our users to see availability status information of other users in the network via the Cisco Unified Presence Solution version 7.0. (CUPS). 

When the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) was first introduced in SQL Server 2005, it received mixed reviews. With the launch of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has succeeded in transforming the SSMS into a much more useful tool set. This whitepaper will list and discuss each of these improvements of SSMS 2008. 

Here five things about Windows Server 2008 that are the less obvious, more esoteric, yet useful features or quirks. The following is a brief list of some things that I tend to assume that many people know, and I am constantly amazed by clients and students who really don't know them. How many do you already know? 

vSphere, VMware's latest release, adds approximately 150 new features to its previous VI3 product! The purpose of this white paper is to highlight the most notable of these features and to discuss the benefits they offer your organization's IT infrastructure. 

As IT commoditization continues to increase audit and control activities, IT gets better at identifying and documenting the causes of significant outages. In an increasing number of cases, these ITIL efforts show the source of the outage to be action from the security department, and the BSM processes show the impact to be devastating. 

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. 

It may be surprising to some that Cisco routers run many services that could create vulnerabilities. This paper is meant to be a vehicle for discussion regarding the security of Cisco routers. Additionally, some best practices for securing your Cisco routers are defined. 

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 presumes that your enterprise already has a data network security policy in place. It examines the many different settings that are available to help secure the Cisco IP Phones from potential hacker attacks, and it looks at a selection of Cisco secure infrastructure technologies that are especially useful for protecting voice systems. 

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

This paper explains the need to select Cisco IP Phones, switches, routers for your home lab and explores how to configure the options of VMware so that you can load Cisco Call Manager and Cisco Unity virtual machines in a lab environment.