Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq: CPWR), the technology performance company, today announced several product enhancements that will help its customers overcome the business risks of the “New Normal of Mainframe” by increasing developer productivity and improving application performance management.

Many of Australia’s CIOs are concerned that further consumerisation of IT will lead to greatly increased business risks and that the trend to consumerisation is already driving unrealistic expectations around the role of IT in enterprises.

An international survey of 520 CIOs, including 30 in Australia, indicates that a retiring mainframe workforce is potentially exposing enterprises to skills shortages, rising costs and increased business risk.

Compuware has just brought out a new ebook providing information for all you ‘dummies” out there who want to learn all about web load testing.

Microsoft Windows Azure is once again the top cloud performer platform globally in the latest Compuware Cloudsleuth survey. However, like other offshore providers its performance in Australia is less than inspiring with much slower response times than most other regions of the world and an order of magnitude slower than the top local performer.

Two major global vendors, RightNow and Compuware have been named as leaders in their respective IT fields by analyst firm, Gartner in its Magic Quadrant for 2011. RightNow is in the quadrant with its web customer services solutions and Compuware gains recognition for its application performance monitoring solution.

Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, today announced that Gartner Inc. has placed Compuware in the “leaders” quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) (1). The report evaluated 29 vendors on completeness of vision and ability to execute. A complimentary copy of the report can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/q5jKi7 .

Compuware has released an application performance monitor which will extract data and trend information about the current state of web, non-web, streaming, mobile and cloud application performance.

Compuware has released a an upgrade to its data privacy solution which it says automates the process of masking production-level data for application developers and testers, cutting out the time-consuming task of performing data disguise coding on each data set they extract.

The Attachmate Group has appointed Martin Mooney as country manager for New Zealand.