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GUEST OPINION by Steve Singer, Regional Vice President and Country Manager – ANZ, Zscaler:  The ongoing global pandemic has caused fundamental changes to businesses. Two of the most significant have been the widespread adoption of remote working and the increased usage of cloud-based collaboration platforms.

GUEST OPINION by Steve Singer, Regional Vice President and Country Manager – ANZ, Zscaler:  The ongoing global pandemic has caused fundamental changes to businesses. Two of the most significant have been the widespread adoption of remote working and the increased usage of cloud-based collaboration platforms.

GUEST OPINION: While there is pressure on application developers to make their products perform better under variable network conditions, networks themselves are also ripe for rework.

Enterprise identity solution provider Ping Identity has announced PingOne Authorize for cloud-based dynamic authorisation.

GUEST RESEARCH: Hazelcast, the provider of the real-time intelligent applications platform, today released a global study revealing that 8 in 10 (79%) of retail and financial services companies globally struggle to harness real-time data and combine it with historical data to glean better insights for engaging customers, increasing revenue and boosting conversion rates, especially amid increasingly unpredictable consumer behaviour trends and a rising tide of incoming data. This compares to 65% of retail and financial services companies in Australia and just 55% in New Zealand.

A large majority of Australian and New Zealand organisations were not adequately prepared for COVID-19 and fear the increased risk they are being exposed to through working from home and flexible work policies, according to newly published survey findings.

GUEST OPINION by Shehzad Merchant, Chief Technology Officer, Gigamon:  Dealing with a security incident requires not just prompt notification of the incident but the ability to triage the cause of the incident.

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.

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.”