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The Software-defined Datacenter Has Arrived
VMware and Microsoft provide solutions for software-defined datacenters where all resources – compute, storage, availability, networking and security – are virtualized and automated. This article focuses on the latest additions: virtualized networking and security.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Glacier for Low Cost Data Archives
Amazon Glacier is a new service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides extremely low cost, durable storage for archive-ready data. This service targets organizations who want to retain large, infrequently-used data sets but don’t want to maintain a local storage infrastructure.
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Weeding Out "Bluffers"?
A few weeks back Steve Jones asserted that IT valued technology over thinking. Well now he follows up on this with the belief that some of this problem is down to bluffers who manage to get senior jobs in the industry based solely on buzzwords and are ignorant of IT reality and landscape. So Steve suggests a couple of ways to try to weed out these bluffers at an early stage.
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Gartner’s Software Hype Cycles for 2012
In a series of reports, Gartner has evaluated the maturity, adoption and future direction of more than 1,900 technologies and trends for 2012.
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Microsoft Release New REST API Framework as Part of .NET 4.5
As part of the recent Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 launch, Microsoft formally unveiled its new web services framework called the ASP.NET Web API. Included as part of the ASP.NET MVC 4 offering, the open-source ASP.NET Web API is designed to simplify the development and consumption of RESTful services.
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A Microsoft Branded Service Bus without BizTalk
For quite some time now BizTalk has been essentially on life support. Being both very complex and very expensive, it was never a particularly popular product. None the less, many companies used it because they trust the Microsoft name and actually do need some sort of enterprise service bus. Seeing this gap, Microsoft has created a new product called Microsoft Service Bus 1.0 for Windows Server.
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OpenXava 4.5 Supports JPA Inheritance Mapping and Automated Business Logic
The latest version of OpenXava, a Java framework for rapid development of enterprise applications, supports all strategies of JPA inheritance mapping and the Automated Business Logic (ABL) library. OpenXava version 4.5 was released last month.
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IG Group Open-Sources RESTdoclet
IG Group has open-sourced its RESTdoclet Maven plugin for generating web documentation from Spring REST based services.
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Amazon Registers AWS with CSA STAR
CSA security registry continues to gain relevance through the incorporation of Amazon AWS into the registry.
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Network Virtualization Makes its Way to Major Cloud Software Vendors Via Acquisitions
Recent acquisitions by Oracle and VMware accentuate the growing network virtualization market.
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Elizabeth Hendrickson On The Bugs Spread Disease
Elizabeth Hendrickson recently discussed the wasted hours she spent in bug triage meetings. In her blog testobsessed.com she addressed the problem that some organizations spend so much time and money on testing without really leveraging the information testing reveals. Such organisations suffer from severe problems due to what Hendrickson calls the bugs spread disease.
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The Planning Poker Prevents Fallacies in Effort Estimates
In his recent blog posting “Planning Poker: Avoiding Fallacies in Effort Estimate” Hayim Makabee discusses a common problem of effort estimation called planning fallacy and why planning poker helps to avoid it.
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The Future of HTTP and the Controversy over SPDY
IETF has discussed the future of HTTP, and the next version is to be using SPDY as a starting point. There is a controversy though: Microsoft claims SPDY is no better than HTTP/1.1 with all optimizations turned on, while SPDY’s inventor says Microsoft’s tests actually confirm SPDY’s advantage in a real world scenario.
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Business of Software Engineering - Throughput Accounting and the Theory of Constraints
In his recent blog posting “Theory of Constraints and Software Engineering” Steve Tendon addresses why throughput accounting should be preferred over cost accounting in software development organizations. He also provides a simple model for throughput accounting that is applicable to software engineering.
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QConSF Update: 50/100 Speakers Confirmed; Eric Brewer, John Hughes to Keynote; Nov 5–9, 2012
Over 50/100 speakers have been confirmed for the sixth annual QCon San Francisco 2012, including keynote speakers Eric Brewer, father of the CAP Theorem, and John Hughes, Haskell & QuickCheck Co-Designer. QConSF will take place at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco on November 5 - 9, 2012. Save up to $500 if you register by Aug 24th.