Latest White Papers
A Distributed, Intelligent IPv6-Enabled Network Infrastructure
Command Information, Inc., is the largest pure-play Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) solutions provider in America. The company established Command Labs to provide a research and development laboratory for Fortune 1000 companies and government organizations to rapidly prototype IPv6 solutions for network-centric systems.
A key solution that Command Information wished to deploy in Command Labs was an open, scalable infrastructure that could serve as a test bed to link data from sensors and other distributed, edge devices directly into the IPv6 network and provide real-time information over the Internet. When Command Information was designing the lab within an IPv6 network powered by Cisco Systems, Inc., the company turned to Augusta Systems, Inc., to provide technologies for the open, scalable, intelligent network infrastructure.
Command Ready
Command Ready is a complete IPv6 product development service with a range of
support services for any company throughout their IPv6 product development process.
IPv6 support is an important feature as federal defense and civilian agencies fulfill the
broader IPv6 mandate and must acquire IPv6-capable certified products. Vendors
wishing to sell to the federal market will need to ensure their products conform to IPv6-
capable standards established by the federal government. Command Ready services
vary from creating and incubating a product from concept until it is ready for delivery, or
simply providing design and testing support. Command Ready support allows you to
focus on your core business while we focus on ensuring your product is IPv6-optimized.
Mashups using an Agile Process
In today’s world of hyper-connectivity, techno-savvy business users demand faster access to data they need in a format they can quickly manipulate. While enterprise mashups provide a good option for this audience, without agile practices in place to support the process, the time saved by selecting an enterprise mashup tool can be lost.
Refactoring Agile
Today, even the strongest agile-detractors grudgingly concede that the methodology has its
merits. Some go as far as to admit that agile represents the preferred approach given the
proper conditions—small, highly-skilled teams working on systems with minimal interfaces,
known architectures, and fluid requirements. Unfortunately, these concessions signal only
limited acceptance of agile for use in confined projects, which do not necessarily impact the
heart of a company’s operations or compel changes to a company’s organizational, process,
or behavioral DNA.
Refactoring Agile: A Retrospective on a Decade of Agile Development
Commanding Thought - IPv6 Top 10 Things You Should Already Be Doing
IPv6 is coming whether you and your organization have adequately planned for it or not. IPv6, all its new features
and functionality, resulting security issues, as well as a number of other enterprise issues, should be considered in
your preparation. Consider these 10 things companies and government agencies should do now to be prepared
for this inevitability.
IPv6 Quick Reads
IPv6 Quick Reads provide short educational nuggets of timely IPv6-related content. Areas of concentration include IPv6 transition, deployment, and documentation.
Teredo Transition Mechanism – Quick Read
IPv6 and IPv4 Packet Formats – Quick Read
Agile in the Enterprise
For large organizations, fully realizing the benefits of agile requires change and support across the enterprise--beyond IT and project stakeholders. Traditional operational processes that previously supported waterfall development now slow down agile project progress, causing interruption, adding waste to activities, restricting flexibility and limiting innovation.
Automated Functional Testing During Agile Development
Selenium the Tool of Choice for Web Applications
Most enterprises have already learned some of the benefits of automating the functional testing of web applications. However, simply doing automated functional testing is not enough. The approach taken to testing can make a substantial difference in the cost of the testing as well as the quality of the application that is ultimately delivered. Most phased-based application development processes involve a “test last” approach. During these processes, the application is not sent to the testers for testing until development is either completed or close to being completed. This can be called a “handoff” or an “over the wall” approach. However, there is another way to perform automated functional testing, using the concepts from agile software development. These concepts emphasize the importance of iterative development, simplicity, and frequent regression testing and refactoring.
IPv6 White Papers
- 802.11 Wireless vLAN Trunking and IPv6 Deployment Brief
Wireless vLAN implementations can allow broadcast and multicast traffic to "leak" across vLAN boundaries. Once some vLANs are enabled for IPv6, creating dual-stack or IPv6-only vLANs, IPv6 multicast traffic may leak onto IPv4-only subnets, resulting in connectivity problems. This brief describes the issue, and provides an explanation and solutions. - IPv6 Explained: Anatomy of an IPv6 Address
IPv6 is the next generation Internet protocol. In simplest terms, Internet protocol is the set of techniques used to transmit data over the Internet. IPv6 was designed to replace the current version, IPv4, and will bring superior reliability, flexibility and security to the Internet.
Agile White Papers
- SOA, Meet Agile.
Experience Report:
Adopting SOA with Agile Teams
More and more companies today are turning toward dynamic solutions to replace existing legacy systems and frameworks. These solutions allow them to respond quickly to market demands and effectively meet ever-increasing business needs all the while reusing existing services and processes that exist within the enterprise. - Agile QA
Building Up Perfect Software
One of the benefits of adopting an agile software development approach is a significant increase in software quality. While teams rarely decide to try agile development for quality reasons alone, dramatically lower defect rates are almost always one of the first things that they notice. - Showcasing Agile Development
A Powerful Tool for “Crossing the Chasm”
As advocates of agile software development, we desire to see the use of agile methodologies increase within organizations. In striving to "cross the chasm" into the mainstream, however, it is possible that our current repertoire of techniques may not be adequate to effectively address the concerns many organizations face when they consider adopting an agile approach. . - The Agile Journey
Adopting XP in a Large Financial Services Organization
On January 14, 2004, two vice presidents met with a group of directors, project managers, and developers, and indicated their desire to embrace agile software development as "the way forward" in their organization. This is the story of our journey.