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• Agile can help bring change, but needs internal support: ThoughtWorks

  By Patrick Budmar | 01 November, 2012 17:16

  Agile software development is reaching mainstream in many Australian IT organisations, according to ThoughtWorks director of client relations, Keith Dodds, who has seen growing adoption of the iterative and incremental-based software development methods worldwide.

• Riverbed to acquire Opnet in $1B deal

  By Martyn Williams | 30 October, 2012 00:21

  Riverbed Technology will acquire Opnet Technologies for about US$1 billion, the two companies said Monday.

• Startup claims it saw early signs of Amazon's cloud outage

  By Brandon Butler | 26 October, 2012 15:43

  Almost two hours before Amazon Web Services publicly acknowledged an outage that brought down websites such as Reddit, Imgur and Heroku, application monitoring startup Boundary claims it started noticing the problem.

• Telecom firm tightens internal application management with HP tool

  By Ellen Messmer | 25 October, 2012 19:46

  Vodafone Ireland was faced with a problem, according to Shane Gaffney, head of IT operations: It had about 200 applications running for internal business units tied to customer services, but was having a hard time measuring application availability.

• 100,000 new jobs for tech industry through midyear 2012, report says

  By Ann Bednarz | 25 October, 2012 18:31

  Three of the four high-tech job sectors analyzed by TechAmerica Foundation saw positive job growth in the first half of 2012, amounting to nearly 100,000 new jobs for the tech industry. The organization called the gains "modest," however, and warned against taking the industry's relative job strength for granted.

• yARN: Call to action – put your best foot forward

  By Jennifer O'Brien | 25 October, 2012 11:22

  The ongoing issue of female to male parity across different business units in the ICT sector continues to frustrate many women.

• IT budgets up, but salary cuts still a concern: study

  By Ann Bednarz | 24 October, 2012 21:51

  Companies are still looking for ways for IT to reduce costs, still trying to increase employee productivity, and still cautious about raising IT salaries, according to the latest survey data from the Society for Information Management (SIM).

• HP CEO tells users what she's going to do -- and what she isn't

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 24 October, 2012 18:29

  Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman took to the stage at Gartner's Symposium/ITexpo here Wednesday looking to convince customers that that HP is on solid footing.

• Gartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013

  By Michael Cooney | 23 October, 2012 18:46

  If some of the top 10 strategic technology trends going into 2013 look familiar it's because quite a few -- like cloud computing and mobile trends -- have been around for awhile but are now either morphing or changing in ways that will continue to impact IT in the next year.

• Why risk management can succeed in IT

  By Steve Schlarman, eGRC solutions architect, RSA | 22 October, 2012 19:48

  Earlier this week Richard Stiennon published an article that questions the value of risk management in IT, and I would argue that, although risk management presents challenges to IT, best practice-driven approaches leveraging aspects of risk management are essential to good security.

• Gartner: 10 critical IT trends for the next five years

  By Michael Cooney | 22 October, 2012 19:48

  Trying to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to IT issues is not a job for the faint of heart. That point was driven home at Gartner's IT annual IT Symposium fest here where analyst David Cappuccio outlined what he called "new forces that are not easily controlled by IT are pushing themselves to the forefront of IT spending."

• F5 boosts capacity, transaction capabilities of its application delivery hardware

  By Jon Gold | 19 October, 2012 15:45

  F5 Networks this week debuted the 4200v version of its BIG-IP line of application delivery controllers -- specialized hardware designed to help lessen the load imposed on network-based services -- significantly bolstering the transaction handling and capacity over its current high-end box.

• Naval researchers pioneer TCP-based spam detection

  By Joab Jackson | 24 December, 2011 08:39

  A group of researchers from the U.S. Naval Academy has developed a technique for analyzing email traffic in real-time to identify spam messages as they come across the wire, simply using information from the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) packets that carry the messages.

• The CIO's lament: 20-something techies who quit after 1 year

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 23 December, 2011 22:29

  Louis Trebino, CIO and senior vice president at the Harry Fox Agency (HFA) in New York City, is experiencing significant turnover on his Web development team.

• Can you keep your IT staff in 2012?

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 23 December, 2011 22:29

  IT staff retention is shaping up to be one of the biggest challenges facing CIOs in 2012.