In To Burgundy and Back Again, Roy presents a richly evocative account of their journey—one replete with discovery, adventure, and poignant surprises. Written in the tradition of A Year in Provence and Sideways, this elegantly penned book will delight wine lovers and armchair travelers alike.
The Cloud! It sounds so fluffy and soft. Amorphous, remote, floating above the world. Run it in the Cloud, we cay. A modern metaphor, but once we had another name, a more descriptive name for using someone else's computer. We called it time-sharing. Today we mix the idea of using distant computers and the idea of communicating via a network and call the combination The Cloud, imagining we have invented something new. But it isn't so new after all. Beginning in the 1960s, a company created a successful business making remote computer services available inexpensively to anyone via a network built for that purpose. Companies offered online resources from banking to research, email to instant messaging, and the ability to run applications on powerful, remote computers and access them from anywhere. In doing so, they created the first cloud. They called it Tymnet, and the company was Tymshare. I worked for Tymnet for more that 12 years, from the beginning of 1980 until 1992. The people I worked with were some of the finest anywhere, and the memories of my years with Tymnet are among my fondest. It gives me great pleasure to present the story of the first cloud, as told by those who created it."--Back cover.
Cloudwalker, describing the creation of the rivers, is the second in a series of Northwest Coast legends by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd. Their previous collaboration, Raven Brings the Light (2013), is a national bestseller. On British Columbia’s northwest coast lies the Sacred Headwaters—the source of three of British Columbia’s largest salmon-bearing rivers. These rivers are the source of life for all creatures in the area. But what gave life to the rivers themselves? Astace, a young Gitxsan hunter, is intent on catching a group of swans with his bare hands. He is carried away by the birds’ powerful wings and dropped in the clouds. With only a cedar box of water Astace wanders the clouds, growing weaker, stumbling and spilling the contents. When he finally returns to earth he discovers lakes, creeks, and rivers where there were none before. The Gitxsan rejoice at having him home, and name the new river they live alongside Ksien—“juice from the clouds.” Roy Henry Vickers’ vibrant artwork, including 18 new prints, accompany this new retelling of an ancient story—readers of all ages will be captivated.
The Great Global Warming Blunder provides a simple explanation for why forecasts of a global warming Armageddon constitute a major scientific faux pas: climate researchers have mixed up cause and effect when they have analyzed cloud behavior. Combining illustrations from everyday experience with state-of-the-art satellite measurements, Roy W. Spencer reveals how these scientists have been fooled by Mother Nature into believing that the Earth's climate system is very sensitive to humanity's production of carbon dioxide through the use of fossil fuels. He presents evidence that recent warming, rather than being the fault of humans, is a result of chaotic, internal natural cycles that have been causing periods of warming and cooling for thousands of years" --Cover, p. 2.
Summary Elasticsearch in Action teaches you how to build scalable search applications using Elasticsearch. You'll ramp up fast, with an informative overview and an engaging introductory example. Within the first few chapters, you'll pick up the core concepts you need to implement basic searches and efficient indexing. With the fundamentals well in hand, you'll go on to gain an organized view of how to optimize your design. Perfect for developers and administrators building and managing search-oriented applications. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Modern search seems like magic—you type a few words and the search engine appears to know what you want. With the Elasticsearch real-time search and analytics engine, you can give your users this magical experience without having to do complex low-level programming or understand advanced data science algorithms. You just install it, tweak it, and get on with your work. About the Book Elasticsearch in Action teaches you how to write applications that deliver professional quality search. As you read, you'll learn to add basic search features to any application, enhance search results with predictive analysis and relevancy ranking, and use saved data from prior searches to give users a custom experience. This practical book focuses on Elasticsearch's REST API via HTTP. Code snippets are written mostly in bash using cURL, so they're easily translatable to other languages. What's Inside What is a great search application? Building scalable search solutions Using Elasticsearch with any language Configuration and tuning About the Reader For developers and administrators building and managing search-oriented applications. About the Authors Radu Gheorghe is a search consultant and software engineer. Matthew Lee Hinman develops highly available, cloud-based systems. Roy Russo is a specialist in predictive analytics. Table of Contents PART 1 CORE ELASTICSEARCH FUNCTIONALITY Introducing Elasticsearch Diving into the functionality Indexing, updating, and deleting data Searching your data Analyzing your data Searching with relevancy Exploring your data with aggregations Relations among documents PART 2 ADVANCED ELASTICSEARCH FUNCTIONALITY Scaling out Improving performance Administering your cluster
The Westminster-stylized model of Parliamentary democratic governance is out of step with today’s digitally and socially networked world. The resulting context for public sector governance brings both promise and peril – with profound consequences for public servants, elected officials, and citizens alike. This book presents a timely and thorough examination of the main sources of tension between the political and administrative foundations of the traditional state apparatus, commonly referred to as ‘machinery’, and newly emerging alternative governance mindsets and mechanisms driven by the advent of ‘mobility’. Consistent with the emergence of Government 2.0, some of the critical technological and organizational dimensions of mobility include openness, cloud computing, privacy and security, and social media. Furthermore, a more informed, educated, and connected citizenry creates new pressures and opportunities for public engagement, particularly online. Blending conceptual and empirical perspectives from Canada and many other jurisdictions around the world, this book aims to provide scholars, students, and practitioners of democratic and public sector governance with fresh insight into both the prospects for reform and the critical choices that lie ahead for governments and citizens in an increasingly mobile and participative age.
Clouds face many threats like compromises of the hypervisor, insecure cloud storage, insecure images of VMs that are used infrequently, and remote cloud clients that face threats from malicious outsiders and insiders. Whether in a private cloud or third-party infrastructures, your services remain under threat and need protection that must be ever more sophisticated. Expert Cloud Security: Solutions for Service-oriented Organizations offers the solutions IT pros need to secure clouds from malicious sources as well as from poor security practices and IT ignorance. Arpan Roy, a cloud security expert for Infosys, first takes a deep dive into security issues relating to cloud systems. These span four broad areas that include the computing infrastructure, the data, security in communication, and external and insider service integration threats. For each security issue, the reader will learn about the potential causes of threats, a comparative study of relevant security case studies in the area, and a range of possible countermeasures. Roy also provides background on each--the significance of each security area, its relevance to a service company that deploys or manages clouds, and the current state of research. You will learn: Which attack scenarios are exploited most often in the cloud environment Attack scenarios that require you to secure the hypervisor, prevent the exploitation by a co-resident VM, secure VM images, mitigate insider threats, secure cloud storage, eliminate abuse of lightweight SaaS clients, and protect data propagation in clouds. Industry standards and innovations in cloud security in the form of hardware, firmware, and software security solutions aimed at securing cloud infrastructures. Wearing a practitioner's glasses, Roy explores the relevance of each attack scenario and how to protect your company or clients from them. There are many threats to your company's or client's cloud, but as you will learn, knowledge, insight, and effective tools--all of which this book provides--can keep your cloud infrastructure working and secure at all times. What you’ll learn The threats to each of the four pillars of cloud service: infrastructure, data, communication, and external service integration. How to secure against side-channel attacks, among others How to secure and patch unattended VMs Architecture and encryption solutions for secure cloud storage How to monitor and secure SaaS sites Hardware, software, and firmware solutions for cloud security Who this book is for Those charged with protecting an organization's cloud services.
This book is a hands-on, practical guide that will help readers to understand the various capabilities of VMware Fusion with the help of real-world examples. This book is a must for every Mac user out there who is in the process of transitioning from Windows to OS X. Whether you’re new to Fusion or you’ve been using it for years, there’s something new for everyone to learn.
A five-step office automation plan for small businesses to use cloud computing technology to simplify business planning, project management, and accounting. Written for non-technical business readers.
This is an inspiratory fact of our family. This book highlights the positivity of life. To enrich further the positivity of life, I wish to imbibe the spirit of survival with a poetic line from a poem by Sri Rabindranath Tagore which states, “No one should fear the black cloud in the sky, you all know that there is always the shining Sun behind the cloud.” It is you and only you who is the architect of your own fate. This book is a gift to my grandson, to guide him when he finds himself in tough times.
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