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Network Storage: Tools and Technologies for Storing Your Company's
Data explains the changes occurring in storage, what they mean, and
how to negotiate the minefields of conflicting technologies that
litter the storage arena, all in an effort to help IT managers
create a solid foundation for coming decades. The book begins with
an overview of the current state of storage and its evolution from
the network perspective, looking closely at the different protocols
and connection schemes and how they differentiate in use case and
operational behavior. The book explores the software changes that
are motivating this evolution, ranging from data management, to
in-stream processing and storage in virtual systems, and changes in
the decades-old OS stack. It explores Software-Defined Storage as a
way to construct storage networks, the impact of Big Data,
high-performance computing, and the cloud on storage networking. As
networks and data integrity are intertwined, the book looks at how
data is split up and moved to the various appliances holding that
dataset and its impact. Because data security is often neglected,
users will find a comprehensive discussion on security issues that
offers remedies that can be applied. The book concludes with a look
at technologies on the horizon that will impact storage and its
networks, such as NVDIMMs, The Hybrid Memory Cube, VSANs, and NAND
Killers.
What exactly is pretexting anyway? A pretext is a carefully
manipulated act to gain factual evidence that you would not
otherwise be able to naturally discover. Some investigators call it
a gag or a scam. The purpose of this book is to bring a wide
variety of pretext ideas that work in today's working class age of
internet connectivity with overall scam awareness in the general
public. Used by law enforcement, investigators and other
professions that need to find out things about people. "A major
part of skip tracing includes some type of pretext styled to fit
the target's circumstances. We just simply can't do now, in
detective work, what we could do 20 or even 10 years ago on an
investigation. But, there are more things that we can do than ever
before." There is a little bit of truth in every lie. Pretext
scenario's are used to go beyond what a typical database cannot
reveal. To discover bank information, place of employment, the
times when a person is home and who they live with, and even just
simply where a target is living. All can be accomplished with a
pretext conformed to the lifestyle of the target.
Want to own a repo company? Vehicle repossession is a recession
proof business with fast payoff. In this easy to understand guide
you'll learn every angle of the business from a career repo man.
Learn how to get started, get work, find people and get paid. James
O'Reilly gives specific insight into a debtor's mind for profiling
and getting the repo work that no one else can get. Business
building advice gives you the good reputation you need to stay in
flooded in work for years to come. Cash in on a down turned economy
with your own repossession agency.
The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11 is the latest in the annual
Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's
best travel writing from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new
writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes
encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and
misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic
cuisines and cultures. Includes winners from the annual Solas
Awards for Best Travel Writing. Introduction by Rolf Potts In The
Best Travel Writing, Volume 11, readers will: Piece together the
puzzle of life in rural Cambodia Reawaken the joy of travel on a
bus ride through Mexico Reexamine war memories with former soldiers
in Vietnam Learn the ropes and the art of sailing with a "good
captain" on the Pacific Find a true soul sister in the highlands of
Ecuador Follow Vincent van Gogh's footsteps in France Survive (or
not) a home invasion in Brazil...and much more
This title launches a new Travelers’ Tales series, an annual
collection of the best travel writing, to celebrate ten years of
publishing the world’s best travel writing—from Nobel Prize
winners to complete unknowns. Many of these stories will be
published for the first time in this book, while some will have
appeared in other Travelers’ Tales titles or elsewhere. But the
common thread connecting them will be fresh, lively storytelling
and compelling narrative to make the reader laugh, weep, wish he
were there, or be glad he wasn’t. These 25 stories cover the
globe, from battling snakes in Costa Rica to probing your own
relation to the caste system in India to charting your way through
the "oldest tourist trap in the world" in Egypt to learning to cook
an octopus in Mexico. The writers come from many countries, not
just the United States, so the points of view and perspectives are
global in reach. Themes are as eclectic as all of our books,
including stories that encompass spiritual growth, absolute
hilarity and misadventure, high adventure, romance, women’s solo
journeys, stories of service to humanity, family travel, and
encounters with exotic cuisine.
The Best Travel Writing, Volume 11 is the latest in the annual
Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's
best travel writing from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new
writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes
encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and
misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic
cuisines and cultures. Includes winners from the annual Solas
Awards for Best Travel Writing. Introduction by Rolf Potts In The
Best Travel Writing, Volume 11, readers will: Piece together the
puzzle of life in rural Cambodia Reawaken the joy of travel on a
bus ride through Mexico Reexamine war memories with former soldiers
in Vietnam Learn the ropes and the art of sailing with a "good
captain" on the Pacific Find a true soul sister in the highlands of
Ecuador Follow Vincent van Gogh's footsteps in France Survive (or
not) a home invasion in Brazil...and much more
This book will appeal to: lovers of travel literature the thousands
of writers who entered the Solas Awards over the past ten years and
counting readers who love powerful, inspiring true stories about
life and the world
Since 1993, readers have looked to Travelers' Tales for
award-winning stories about the world, adventure, spirituality, and
the transformative experiences that accompany life on the road. The
Best Travel Writing 2008 is the fifth volume in the series launched
in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing — much of it
never before published — from Nobel Prize winners to up-and-coming
new writers. The stories provide a perspective and depth of
understanding that can only come from people who have actually been
there, and encompass everything from high adventure to
misadventure, spiritual growth to romance, service to humanity to
encounters with exotic cuisines. Reading the book is like sitting
in a café filled with fellow travelers, swapping tales about
destinations near and far — readers emerge changed, eager for more,
and ready to plan their next trips.
For ten years the editors of Travelers' Tales have run a writing
competition to find the best travel story of the year: The Solas
Awards. Over those years, thousands of stories have come across
their desks, from writers famous and unknown, covering all corners
of the globe with stories of adventure and discovery, love and
loss, humor and absurdity, grief and joy. In this collection appear
all of the top prize winners of the last ten years, stories that
bring readers along for journeys that are inspiring, uplifting,
and, very often, transformative. These tales are powerful, moving
testaments to the richness of our world, its cultures, people, and
places. In this book, readers will: Deposit a loved one's ashes in
a Bolivian River Find the Celtic soul you never knew you had in
rural Ireland Grope through the maze of sorcery and madness in
Cameroon Rediscover your sense of self on a return to Russia after
many years away Follow the spirit of John Wesley Powell down the
Grand Canyon in Arizona Engage loss and the specter of death in
Mexico Face your deepest fears alone in an Alaskan winter Encounter
the realities of prostitution in Thailand Absorb the rhythms and
soul of Flamenco in Spain Fall in love with a home in rural France
and make it your own... and much more
The Road Within is a very different kind of travel book, a venture
into the hidden territories of the human spirit and heart. A book
of transformation, of lessons learned, maps drawn and burned, and
spiritual blessings bestowed by that great and hard teacher:
travel. It will show you what the great mystics and saints have
always known—that you are closer to yourself, the world, and the
divine, than you can possibly imagine, and that wondrous things
await you on your journeys. In this book you will discover the
Garden of Paradise in the human heart with Natalie Goldberg; get
swept up in a dance of dervishes with Paul William Roberts in
Cairo; and feel the chill that accompanies Annie Dillard with a
long-time Communist Party member in China. You will meet an angel
in Paris, have strange sexual encounters on Asian seas, play a
vomiting game in an African initiation ceremony, get a taste of
satori, and discover the strange and haunting beauty of Mother
Meara in Germany. You will go on a worldwide quest at the
invitation of a Shinto priest and have your sins forgiven, but most
important, you will encounter the ultimate stranger—you.
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