A One-Stop Reference Containing the Most Read Topics in the Syngress Security Library
This is the perfect reference for any IT professional responsible for protecting their enterprise from the next generation of security threats. This anthology represents the "best of" this year's top Syngress books on the Human, Malware, VoIP, Device Driver, RFID, Phishing and Spam threats likely to be unleashed in the near future.

This book covers the native tools that VMware provides with ESX Server. It then discusses in detail the different scripting API's and how they can be leveraged to provide some very useful, practical and time saving tools to manage a virtual infrastructure. From virtual server provisioning to backups and everything in between, all are covered in detail with real world examples that have been tested and will work either copied directly from the book or with slight modifications for the reader's specific environments.

Multimedia stands as one of the most challenging and exciting aspects of the information era. The extremely rapid growth of this field means that books even just a few years old may offer information that is already obsolete. Multimedia Image and Video Processing offers not only up-to-date research and developments, but does so in a way that provides a solid introduction to each topic that builds a basis for future study, research, and development. It deals with every aspect of image and video processing, at both algorithmic and systematic levels.

The architects of the Software Factories method provide a detailed look at this faster, less expensive, and more reliable approach to application development. Software Factories significantly increase the level of automation in application development at medium to large companies, applying the time tested pattern of using visual languages to enable rapid assembly and configuration of framework based components.Unlike other approaches to Model Driven Development (MDD), such as Model Driven Architecture (MDA) from the Object Management Group (OMG), Software Factories do not use the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a general purpose modeling language designed for models used as documentation. They go beyond models as documentation, using models based on highly tuned Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) and the Extensible Markup Language (XML) as source artifacts, to capture life cycle metadata, and to support high fidelity model transformation, code generation and other forms of automation.

This book is about using electronic techniques to record, synthesize, process, and analyze musical sounds, a practice which came into its modern form in the years 1948-1952, but whose technological means and artistic uses have undergone several revolutions since then. Nowadays most electronic music is made using computers, and this book will focus exclusively on what used to be called computer music", but which should really now be called \electronic music using a computer".