E-Business and Distributed Systems Handbook: Management Module

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Summary: Extremely useful reading
Review: I just read this booklet and found it to be very beneficial. The author has a very straightforward style of presenting the essential concepts without wasting the reader's time. The first chapter of this 5 chapter booklet gives an incredibly well rounded discussion of ebusiness management in terms of the typical planning, organizating, staffing, monitoring and control activities. My favourite is the second chapter that gives a really good coverage of "management platforms" that support the FCAPS (fault, capacity, accounting, performance and security) in modern environments. Although I have been in the industry for almost 20 years and had heard of Netview, Tivoli, Opeenview and other such things, I never quite understood what are all these things and what do they have to do with management. This chapter alone is worth the cost (only $18) of this booklet. The next 2 chapters on security are equally good. They cover security management and organizational issues, discuss the core security technologies, and then show how this fits in to secure all the IT assets -- starting from network links to corporate databases and web transactions. The security design procedure with attack trees is just wwonderful. The final chapter gives a good scan of state of the practice, market, and art. Beautifully done!