A New Website for Business Managers with IT Duties or IT Managers with Business Tasks

(PRWEB) June 29, 2007 -- Bill Holtsnider and Brian D. Jaffe are pleased to announce the launch of their new website: www.ITManagersHandbook.com. The site is designed to showcase the major features of their successful book, IT Manager's Handbook, Getting Your New Job Done, 2nd edition.    

Are you:

?    a Business manager "stuck with" IT responsibilities? (Forced to approve a hardware upgrade for a division that wouldn't know a line item from a line dance?)

?    an IT manager "stuck with" business responsibilities? (Forced to defend the costs of a required network upgrade to a bunch people in a meeting that wouldn't know a software patch from a pirate's patch?)

Don't get mad. Don't get even. Instead, learn what 'the other side' is talking about. Learn about their world. Use this book and this site to find out exactly what they are thinking.

Two important sections of the site are: "If you are a Business manager with IT responsibilities" and "If you are an IT manager with Business responsibilities".

IT Manager's Handbook is designed to address both of these issues directly:

?    The first 8 chapters (out of 20) address the business side of IT: What is an IT Manager?, Managing Your IT Team, Staffing Your IT Team, Project Management, Changing Companies, Budgeting, Vendors and Their Products, IT Compliance and Controls.

?    The last 12 chapters address the technical side of IT: Getting Started with the Technical Environment, Operations, Physical Plant, Networking, Security, Software and Operating Systems, Enterprise Applications, Storage and Backup, User Support Services, Websites, User Equipment, Disaster Recovery.

The IT Manager's Handbook is a modular book, so the reader can jump in, get the data they need, and jump out. Its presentation is carefully balanced, with sections entitled "pros and cons" about topics such as open source, outsourcing, VOIP, among others. It is fully indexed (14 pages), has both a brief (one-page) as well as a complete (13-page) table of contents, chapter overviews, and web site, book and article references at the end of each chapter.

The market for this book is enormous: every organization that has an IT department needs to train both current members thrown into the fire without training as well as new personnel coming from other departments. Morgan Kaufmann has special quantity order discounts.

Book specs: 632 pages, $49.95.

Available from Amazon, Morgan Kaufmann (mkp.com), and other on- and off-line retailers.

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