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• ​Tool eases Mission Australia’s app performance woes

  Slow performance of a bespoke application was making life extremely tough for around 3500 case workers at community service organisation, Mission Australia.
  

• 7 keys to delivering better applications faster

  While my co-founders and I were in business school, we saw firsthand how painful and frustrating it is to be involved in the application development process from the business side. So we set out to improve collaboration between IT and the business and to make development radically faster and simpler while ensuring project success.

• Cisco, Akamai team to boost branch performance

  Cisco and Akamai this week announced a collaboration to boost application performance for branch office sites.

• Big data drives 47% growth for top 50 public cloud companies

  Big data analytics are driving rapid growth for public cloud computing vendors with revenues for the top 50 public cloud providers shooting up 47% in the fourth quarter last year to $6.2 billion, according to Technology Business Research Inc.

• Sleight of hand? Behind Riverbed's Gartner Magic Quadrant leadership claim

  Network management vendor Riverbed Technologies proudly proclaimed that it had been rated a "leader" in Gartner's most recent Magic Quadrant report for the application performance monitoring category for the third time in a row in early January – despite the fact that the latest report is the first in which the company technically appears at all.

• Time to set end users free

  How would you like to free up 10 percent to 20 percent of your total IT budget to spend on other things? It's not a pipe dream. But to achieve that benefit you're going to have to give up control of end-user services.

• ABS seeks better management over its software

  The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is looking to get a better handle over the 600 or so applications used across its PCs and notebooks.

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  Introduction to Enterprise Cloud Operating Models

  How do you make sure that you gain everything that has been promised to you? To secure the benefits of the cloud, you need to evolve your organisation and the processes by which you manage your infrastructure and applications.