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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.
  

• It's SysAdmin Day: Let us celebrate with coffee

  Ross Derewianko is a systems administrator for <a href="https://www.pingidentity.com/en.html">Ping Identity</a>, a maker of cross-platform identity management and security software. We spoke to him on <a href="http://sysadminday.com/about-sysadmin-day/sysadwhat/">SysAdmin Day</a> to get his thoughts on the holiday and on his job.

• Shocking study results: People actually think IT is doing a pretty OK job

  Lame jokes about IT support have been around since businesses started using computers, flying in both directions users are dumb, IT is lazy, "did you actually plug it in," "did you try turning it off and turning it back on again," and so on.

• Google killing PageSpeed website service

  Google has alerted users of its <a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/">PageSpeed Service</a> for making websites zippier that it will be killing off the tools as of Aug. 3.

• IDC's state of the network at Interop: Change, or be left behind

  The confluence of mobile, social and big data trends are driving a tectonic transformation and businesses that do not change with these trends will be left behind, analysts from research firm IDC said at Interop 2015.

• Interop 2015: SDN reality-check, apps aplenty

  This week's Interop agenda includes more than 125 sessions covering topics as wide ranging as a status update on the latest trends in software defined networking (SDN) to tips for new application development and delivery methods, infrastructure management, and the pervasive issues of security and mobile workers.

• SDN management battle: TAPs vs. network packet brokers

  Network management is a sticky issue when it comes to implementing software-defined networks and network virtualization.

• Vic gov and Motorola renew emergency services network contract

  The Victorian Government has signed a $41.5 million extension on a contract with Motorola Solutions to manage the government’s emergency services data network.

• VCs bet $33M you'll want to use Avi Networks' white box hardware for app delivery

  Avi Networks, a network startup formed by ex-Cisco executives and backed by $33 million in venture capital, came out of stealth Wednesday with the announcement of a system designed to boost the performance of enterprise applications accessed via the cloud and mobile devices.

• Network slowdowns are the biggest issue for IT, survey shows

  The single most common issue faced by the IT pros surveyed recently by Kelton Research is network slowdowns or outages, which outstripped application performance problems, availability and even the dreaded "unanticipated change request."

• Improving performance and security with a visibility plane in virtual network infrastructures

  <em>This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.</em>

• Brocade Pitches Open Networking to Cash-Strapped Feds

  WASHINGTON -- If storage and compute power can be purchased on a usage-based pricing model, like a utility, then why can't networking follow the same path? Moreover, why shouldn't that network run on an open architecture that fosters competition among multiple service providers?

• Riverbed bolsters net mgmt. software for greater automation

  Riverbed tacked three new software modules onto its SteelCentral network management product today, broadening the features already available through that framework.

• Netscout sues Gartner over Magic Quadrant rating

  A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Connecticut Superior Court accuses tech analyst firm Gartner Research of demanding kickbacks in exchange for favorable placement in the company's famous Magic Quadrant report.

• F5 CEO sees opportunity in myriad challenges facing IT

  F5 Networks CEO John McAdam said Tuesday at his company's Agility conference in New York that, in essence, the future of IT is complicated, confusing and riddled with security threats - and that's a good thing.