January 8, 2015

Backlash Against Agile Software Development

In recent years, agile software development has enjoyed a steady rise in popularity, but now some developers have begun criticizing the methodology. At the Reaktor Dev Day in Finland, computer scientist Erik Meijer told the crowd, “Agile is a cancer that we have to eliminate from the industry.” He added,

AWS Named Most Reliable Large Public Cloud Provider

Cloud Harmony has posted reliability ratings for thirty different cloud computing providers. Among the largest providers, Amazon’s EC2 appeared to have the best ratings for a compute service, achieving 99.9974 percent uptime. By comparison, Rackspace Cloud Servers had 99.9889 percent, Google Compute Engine achieved 99.9816 percent, and Microsoft Azure Virtual

The New Barracuda Security Suite Is Now Shipping From Wick Hill

Combines Barracuda Firewall, Barracuda Web Filter and Barracuda Spam Firewall Virtual Appliances in a single, integrated high-performance hardware platformWoking, Surrey: 8th January 2015 – Now available from Wick Hill is the Barracuda Security Suite, which allows customers to purchase and deploy proven protection across three common threat vectors ??? email,