Cisco Press, the official publisher of Cisco certification and networking technology materials,

announced today the release of PM Crash Course™ for IT Professionals, the first book of its
kind bringing together the largest IT Publisher with the best-selling Project Management author
Rita Mulcahy. The new resource targets IT professionals and helps them get projects back on
track using proven, real-world project management tools and techniques. Readers learn how to
make an immediate impact on IT projects.

News Facts:

 IT professionals are often faced with extremely challenging project deployments, as well
as initiatives that are mission-critical to their organizations. However, most books and
training materials on project management pay little or no attention to the unique
challenges IT project managers face.
 This practical Course in a Book® covers the basics of project management, including
planning, scheduling, budgeting, and more. The authors provide checklists, templates,
and exercises to reinforce learning of these concepts, and include dozens of tricks,
insights, and contributions from project managers sharing what has made a difference for
them when managing real-world projects.
 Real-World Issues Covered:
o Understanding why IT projects fail—and how to prevent failure
o Defining effective IT project charters and requirements
o Organizing IT roadmaps into manageable projects
o Capturing, creating, and using historical data
o Establishing “soft” and “hard” project metrics and milestones
o Identifying and managing stakeholders and expectations
o Choosing the right PM tools—including in-house, hosted, and cloud-based
solutions
 Cisco Press products can be purchased at your favorite local bookstore,
computer/electronic store, online bookseller, www.ciscopress.com or www.informit.com.

Product Information:
PM Crash Course™ for IT Professionals
Real-world project management tools and techniques you can start using today
ISBN-13: 9781587202599
ISBN-10: 158720259X
$59.99 US print book
Special value print and ebook offer at ciscopress.com
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Useable Quotes:

Quote from Paul Boger, Vice President/Publisher Pearson/Cisco Press

“Pearson has a long history of partnering with top experts, leaders, and creators of technology.
When developing a project management resource that would specifically help IT Professionals,
Rita Mulcahy was the only logical choice. We are thrilled to have Rita as a valued member of the
Pearson and Cisco Press family, and to be able to deliver such rich content to the IT
community.”

Quote from David Dusthimer, Associate Publisher Cisco Press

“Cisco Press is excited to bring the world-renowned Project Management expertise of Rita
Mulcahy to the community of IT professionals. Networkers have always applied project
management as an integral workplace process, and guidance from the preeminent expert, tailored
to their industry, will be an invaluable tool for further success.”

Quotes from Rita Mulcahy, Founder and CEO RMC Project Management

“My focus has always been on developing resources that project managers can use to make an
immediate impact on their current projects. Our partnership with Cisco Press has finally allowed
me to bring this real-world project management focus directly to IT professionals.”

Software developers:, Infrastructure engineers

Cloud Computing involves two types of organizations. One the supply side are organizations
such as Microsoft and Amazon, that offer IT services on the Cloud platform. The other is the
demand side comprising of companies that consume such services. For the supply side, i.e. the
service providers, there will be several opportunities created in different areas.

Microsoft

, HP, IBM, Dell and many more are setting up numerous mega-data centres across the globe to
provide Clients with Cloud Computing solutions. Prepare for taking advantage of the Perfect
Storm and understand the way you need to work with it, and manage the services that use this
computing approach.

As can be seen from past experience, a new technology brings in new career opportunities and
also makes old technologies redundant, you can expect the same from Cloud Computing.

Cloud Computing is becoming the latest buzz word in the Information Technology Sector.
Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon and IBM have all been investing heavily in Cloud
Computing. Come to think of it, it could actually revolutionize the way we have come to use the
PC and Internet.
Source: Do We Have the Standing Ground For Making It Big in Cloud Computing??

cloud computing allows businesses and consumers alike to remotely access a vast computing
resource that can be tapped on-demand to deliver next-generation services that consumers
demand, like online medical records or mobile stock portfolio management. It also improves energy
efficiency because of its principle as a shared infrastructure, and allows organisations to better track
information, pay for what they use and access more computing, storage, services or applications on
demand

In India, clients such as mid-market vendors, universities, telecommunications companies and

government bodies will be able to access the centre for the resources they need to pilot cloud
infrastructures and applications, and deliver new services to their customers.

Enterprises are looking at alternate ways to support their dramatically increasing computing needs,
one that will allow for massive scalability while providing an energy efficient and resilient
infrastructure. Technology collaboration between IIT Kanpur and IBM India will drive new
developments in computing to support academic advancement and economic development in India

With the advent of cloud computing some of the low level IT jobs may get automated, there will
be a need to manage more complex environments. For this, Cloud Computing Architects will be
in high demand.

Cloud computing is seen as a game-changer in the technology landscape. Several IT companies

have announced their visions for cloud computing and many have begun implementing these.
This model is creating a huge buzz among service providers and the end-user because of its
potential to deliver major cost and operational benefits, with services replacing infrequently-used
resources. Other benefits include the ability to respond immediately and inexpensively to
changes and a reasonable price model for purchasing only those resources that a company really
needs, and paying only for those resources that the company uses.

However, cloud computing is not an easy business model to implement. It rolls together a range
of IT concepts—network computing, SaaS, server-based computing, utility computing, and grid
computing—into a single, all-encompassing service abstraction.

FAQs

India Inc. is still a laggard when it comes to having the right infrastructure for Cloud Computing.
We are nation where un-interrupted Internet Connectivity/power supply is still considered a
luxury.

So, investing huge amount of money in developing Cloud Computing solutions without the
customer unable to utilize it owing to slow Internet Connections makes little sense.
Source: Do We Have the Standing Ground For Making It Big in Cloud Computing??
Cloud computing provides strong opportunities for network service providers that have mastered
the complexity of operating large data centres. They can pre-empt markets for cloud computing
if they use existing infrastructure and management systems.

Telecom companies can grasp the new business opportunities presented by cloud computing by
leveraging their inherent advantages in having an IP infrastructure and operating capacity that
goes far beyond those of other IT service providers.

In addition, communications-related operating software fits well with cloud computing. Next
generation telecommunications technology like IMS, which can efficiently provide services
using an IP network or next generation network service architecture, is also a logical service
component for the cloud computing environment.

To translate these advantages into sustainable growth, based on the provision of differentiated
service, the cloud computing network service providers need the following:

* A reliable IT infrastructure and operating capacity that can guarantee stability of service.

* An enhanced service infrastructure and large economies of scale through which a large
physical IT infrastructure can be established and used in a cost-efficient manner.

* Advanced software technology and efficient resource management capabilities, along with the
ability to provide flexible services.

* A long-term business strategy and stable operations, which are vital to establishing private
cloud computing for larger companies.

Enterprises need economically compelling solutions that help them run their businesses in
smarter ways, while never taking their eyes off of security, resiliency and compliance. Cloud
computing gives them the opportunity to leverage considerable cost advantages, while
maintaining integrity, responsibility and control. As enterprises and service providers gain
experience with the cloud model and confidence in the security technologies that are available,
many will decide to deploy cloud-based services.

At the start of last year, Gartner predicted that "by 2011, early technology adopters will forgo
capital expenditures and instead purchase 40% of their IT infrastructure as a service... 'Cloud
computing' will take off, thus untying applications from specific infrastructure." To judge by the
phenomenal growth rates experienced by some of today's public cloud offerings, this may have
been a conservative outlook.

Data centre networks stand at the epicentre of powerful technological and economic trends.
Cloud computing, together with the processing, storage and software technologies that make it
possible are straining the capabilities of legacy networks, even at this early stage of
transformation. The way companies plan their network migrations today will determine their cost
structure, performance and scalability for years to come.
This new production environment fits a new set of demands. New technologies make it possible
to virtualise computing and storage, centralise infrastructure, and scale operations radically and
instantly. At the same time, businesses and consumers demand more, richer and faster content,
and services delivered to any device, at any location. Cloud computing matches these new
capabilities and demands—but only if data centres can overcome the challenges embedded in the
design of today's data centre networks.

Today's data centre networks have grown too complex to realise cloud computing vision. Most
IT executives will recognise these trends in their own data centre networks:

New application architectures—the old 'stateful client-server' application model confined

application traffic to 'north/south' communications between servers and clients, but couldn't scale
to serve tens of thousands of users, let alone millions. Today's service-oriented and other Web
2.0 architectures spread that traffic across multiple specialised servers, placing new demands on
the network.

New content—now that everything from training courses to phone calls is digitised, there's an
exploding volume of progressively richer content to store.

New clients—the explosion of portable and wireless clients, plus all the server and storage
infrastructure needed to accommodate them, guarantees more network traffic and complex
network connections.

Today's oversubscribed switching resources and sprawling aggregation and core layers are
symptoms of legacy problems. Most networks were originally designed to accommodate the
limited throughput and port densities of an older generation of switches and routers, and the
traffic volumes and patterns of client-server applications.

Ideally, a centralised, virtually partitioned network would be implemented as a single 'logical'

switch that is physically redundant, and capable of delivering high-performance, low-latency
any-to-any conductivity across the data centre.

Few of today's data centre networks even approach this ideal, but most can profit from a fresh
approach. New technologies let designers reduce network complexity and cost of ownership by
collapsing switching layers, reducing interconnection links, consolidating security infrastructure,
and standardising on a single operating system to automate network operations across switching,
routing and network-services infrastructure. This approach sets the stage for high performance,
and rapid adaptation and growth tomorrow, regardless of whether a company goes all the way to
the highly-virtualised, network-intensive services of cloud computing.