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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.