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Virtualization Review now presents the industry's first print guide to virtualization products in a handy PDF format.

Featuring myriad products in over a dozen categories, this guide is a must-have for the IT professional. Get it from the Tech Library today!

(PDF, 19 pages)

Get an overview of several Windows Installer concepts related to the design of your installation project (including working with features and components, files, custom actions, and properties), which should help you avoid certain types of problems at build and deployment time.

Get it from the Tech Library! (PDF, 9 pages)

LiteSpeed™ 5.0, the ultimate backup and recovery performer, is here! It’s faster, easier and expands backup tuning capabilities with just a few clicks.

See for yourself -- check out five incredible aspects of this new release in the technical brief, "Five Fantastic Features of 5.0," today.

Get it from the Tech Library now. (PDF, 13 pages)

This white paper describes 11 best practices for peer code review, substantiated by the world's largest peer code review case study at Cisco Systems.

Use these techniques to ensure your code reviews improve your code -- without wasting your developers' time.

Download it now from the Tech Library! (PDF, 8 pages)

This survey of 417 executives in the US, Britain, France and Germany, conducted by Forrester Consulting, explores the challenges of application development and how IT leaders can use better metrics to communicate project status, manage business expectations and improve outcomes.

Get it from the Tech Library today. (PDF, 13 pages)

This white paper describes how you can use Vitria M3O Suite to improve the ROI from your investments in a SOA strategy by combining and leveraging the best of approaches, processes and functionalities offered by SOA and Business Process Management (BPM).

Get it now from the Tech Library. (PDF, 8 pages)

Using Change Data Capture Technology with Microsoft SSIS. Yesterday's data is no longer sufficient to run a business.

Real-time data integration keeps your business responsive and agile in a world where the demand for information immediacy is growing.

Getting the most out of the data you already have, and being able to deliver it in a timely manner can be tough.

Change data capture (CDC) provides a solution. Download it today from the Tech Library. (PDF, 19 pages)

Learn how to unleash the power of SQL Server Analysis Server (SSAS). Get this paper to learn about overall design, cubes, performing calculations, business intelligence reporting, delivery methos, ad-hoc data access and more.

Get it from the Tech Library today! (PDF, 9 pages)

The heartbeat of Agile software development is the iteration – the ability to create working, tested, value-delivered code in a short time box.

This paper describes the iteration pattern and the activities that a team engages in to meet this key challenge.

Get it today from the Tech Library (PDF, 14 pages)

Extract, transform and load (ETL) your operational databases into a powerful data warehouse for integrated analysis.

This must-read paper gives you an in-depth look at the components of an ETL process and how to leverage the tools for your organization's requirements.

Get it from the Tech Library today! (PDF, 6 pages)