Get your transition to virtualization off the ground Here is the only hands-on beginner's guide to teach IT professionals how to incorporate virtualization into a corporate environment. The book helps you evaluate and compare the major ven...

The virtual enterprise as a new organizational paradigm has three fundamental features: dynamics of network reconfiguration, virtuality, and external entities as environments for enabling or supporting the virtual enterprise integration as well as...

Implement a Hyper-V virtualization solutionMicrosoft Virtualization with Hyper-V shows you how to deploy Microsoft's next-generation hypervisor-based server virtualization technology in a corporate environment. You'll get step-by-step guidelin...

E-Collaboration promotes interaction between people over the Internet, and is vital in virtual organization arrangements where people co-exist or work together, independent of time and location. E-Collaborations and Virtual Organizations covers a...

Law and Order in Virtual Worlds: Exploring Avatars, Their Ownership and Rights

A Networked Self examines self presentation and social connection in the digital age. This collection brings together new work on online social networks by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines. The volume is structured around the core t...

Whether your second, virtual life has just begun, or you’ve been “in-world" for a long time, a successful and rewarding experience depends on your mastery of design. Everything from your avatar to your home, your clothes to your beh...

As the first title to focus on haXe and Neko, this book walks you through unleashing the potential of these two free tools in order to use them to develop desktop and web based applications, including server-side and client side logic, using a sin...

Meta-plasticity in Virtual Worlds: Aesthetics and Semantics Concepts provides in-depth coverage of the state-of-the-art among the best international research experiences of virtual world concept creations from a wide range of media culture fields...

This book acts as a primer and strategic guide to identify Cloud Computing best practices and associated risks, and reduce the latter to acceptable levels. From software as a service (SaaP) to replacing the entire IT infrastructure, the author ser...