The SmartCompany Dun and Bradstreet Growth List for the IT Sector has ranked ComOps, a leading Australasian provider of business software products and services, as the 15th fastest growing IT company in Australia.

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced the results of a Frost & Sullivan survey that looked at enterprise views towards application delivery and cloud computing with respect to their business needs as well as their understanding of the technology drivers behind these needs.

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced the expansion of its industry-leading application delivery services portfolio. Building on the recent announcements of BIG-IP® v10.1’s unique web security capabilities and functionality supporting the intelligent scaling of mobile infrastructures, F5 is introducing additional advanced Application Delivery Controller services and products designed to support enterprises’ efforts to move toward a more dynamic data centre, reduce infrastructure costs, enhance workforce efficiency and simplify access policy enforcement.

WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today released a significant upgrade of its multifunction firewall appliance operating system, Fireware XTM, which includes new security capabilities and improved management functions. With this new release, businesses gain the ability to block multiple instant messaging applications, as well as gain a myriad of management, reporting and logging features.

engin (ASX:ENG), Australia’s leading broadband telephone company, has launched its new hosted phone system for small business, saving customers up to 60 per cent on the total cost of a fixed line PBX system. The new engin hosted phone system offers the features and functionality of a full premise-based PBX system without the expense or complex maintenance, helping businesses to reduce their overheads and boost profits.

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a provider of leading application infrastructure software to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications today announced that IDC has ranked the award-winning Progress® OpenEdge® business application development platform as the number one pure-play embedded database management system (DBMS) in the world in 2008 for the fifth consecutive year, and was ranked this way for each of the six reports that IDC has issued for this market over the years. IDC presented findings in a report released on January 5, 2010: ‘Worldwide Embedded DBMS 2010-2013 Forecast and 2008 Vendor Shares’ (document 221438).

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software infrastructure provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, announced today that advanced User Interface (UI) flexibility is a key focus of the enhancements within the latest version of Progress® OpenEdge®. The OpenEdge SaaS platform simplifies the development and deployment of business applications to numerous users and devices, an increasingly important factor for Cloud Computing.