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High-impact business applications provider Progress has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Kemp, the always-on application experience company, for US$258 million in cash.

GUEST OPINION by Craig Somerville, Managing Director and CEO, Somerville:  The benefits offered by the adoption of cloud computing are now well understood, however many IT managers are still struggling to put a clear migration strategy in place.

GUEST OPINION by Fleming Shi, Chief Technology Officer, Barracuda: With remote working now the norm for many organisations, security is topping the list of concerns for Australian CIOs.

RMIT is set to become the first Australian university to implement a dedicated cloud supercomputing facility on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to drive digital innovation in research and education at scale.

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly, a global edge cloud platform provider, today announced the availability of JavaScript in Compute@Edge, allowing developers to build with even more flexibility in Fastly’s serverless compute environment. With more JavaScript developers in the world than there are for any other development language, the availability of a faster, more secure way of building with JavaScript brings Compute@Edge’s safety benefits and speedy execution to more workloads around the globe.

GUEST OPINION by Ashley Diffey, Ping Identity:  The business strategy dubbed ‘digital transformation’ has been part of the forward plans of many organisations for years. Their aim has been to take advantage of rapidly evolving technologies to improve efficiencies and drive growth.

COMPANY NEWS: Hazelcast, the provider of the real-time intelligent applications platform, today is announcing the addition of disk-based persistence and enhanced SQL support for the company's new solution, Hazelcast Platform. In addition to new capabilities, the Hazelcast Platform provides a seamless, zero-downtime upgrade path for customers using Hazelcast 3.x and 4.x products.

Business applications company Progress has announced new digital marketing capabilities with the latest release of its SaaS analytics, personalisation and optimisation system Sitefinity Insight.

GUEST OPINION by George Tsoukas, Gigamon ANZ:  Growing innovative solutions provided by every cloud vendor have enabled applications to span different public clouds, utilising the best of every cloud service to provide the best experience for end users.

Cloud visibility and analytics provider Gigamon today announced a partnership with Riverbed, the leader in performance and visibility of networks and applications, in support of the recent Gigamon Hawk launch.

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IT SUMMIT INVITE: Join industry leaders and ServiceNow experts on March 16, 2021 at 2pm AEDT as they share insights into how improved agility and a more proactive approach to IT and operations will deliver the digital transformation you need and define the future of IT and the future of work.

The new Dell Hybrid Client is centrally managed client software for using private cloud, public cloud and local applications in one place.

Global security vendor Sophos claims to have developed a means of blocking malicious software, that is evading detection by loading fileless executables into temporary memory, from running.

With its growth equity raised demonstrating an “expanding market for smarter ways to build modern applications”, the funding will be used to “expand investments in its R&D and go to market strategy.”

Customer engagement company Verint Systems and integrated cloud communications platform provider 8x8 have announced a partnership to bring integrated cloud workforce management applications and cloud contact centre to mid-market and enterprise businesses worldwide.

GUEST OPINION by Yaniv Hoffman, Radware: With cloud-based applications come new security risks that require expertise which is typically scarce and that can delay application deployment and maintenance.

UK-based technology vendor Micro Focus has announced artificial intelligence (AI)-powered enhancements to the intelligent testing capabilities of the UFT Family of solutions designed to reduce the overall complexity of automating the functional testing processes.

Enterprise cloud computing vendor Nutanix has expanded integration with digital workflow company ServiceNow, coinciding with the introduction of new capabilities in its application automation and management solution for DevOps, Nutanix Calm.

GUEST OPINION by Pavan Thatha, Radware: The data sought by cybercriminals vary from one vertical to another, whether banking credentials, medical records, pricing information or confidential research, to name just a few.