Jeff Burt

NetScout Systems wants to give IT administrators greater visibility into their applications that are running in a virtualized environment. NetScout Oct. 7 unveiled the nGenius Virtual Agent, software designed to enable IT professionals the same packet-flow monitoring and analysis capabilities that they get from using the vendor’s nGenius Probe in the physical world. The rapid […]

At an event in June, IBM officials touted the work they were doing with Amtrak. In particular, IBM and Amtrak officials spoke about how the railroad was using IBM’s Maximo asset management software to help monitor and control everything from tracks, electric substations and relays along Amtrak’s busy Northeast corridor. Now IBM is growing the […]

IBM scientists are developing a chip that can easily and quickly read strands of DNA, a development that could lead to more personalized health care. The goal of the research project, announced Oct. 6, is to create the capability to analyze a person’s genome information for as little as $1,000, which could mean better diagnosis […]

Cisco Systems continues to aggressively expand its smart grid ambitions. Cisco is already working with a growing number of energy companies and technology vendors in the United States and elsewhere on smart grid projects, and in September it unveiled its Smart Grid Ecosystem to bring together partners to work on interoperability standards and pushing the […]

Globalfoundries, the manufacturing spinoff from Advanced Micro Devices, is teaming with Arm to help businesses design smaller processors for such devices as mobile phones and low-end notebooks. In a partnership announced Oct. 6, the two companies said the partnership will enable mutual customers to design processors built with Arm tools for Globalfoundries’ 28-nanometer processor manufacturing […]

Citrix is looking to bring together all the elements in the fractured and competitive desktop virtualization space under one umbrella. That umbrella is XenDesktop 4. Announced Oct. 6, XenDesktop 4 essentially comes with some 170 new features designed to enable businesses to deliver virtualized desktops to any user on any device through any model, including […]

Emerson Electric officials are looking to expand what they can offer data center administrators by buying Avocent for $1.2 billion. Emerson offers products-from power and cooling supplies to racks and enclosures-designed to help businesses manage their IT infrastructure and reduce energy costs in their data centers. Buying Avocent will enable Emerson to enhance its data […]

OpSource, which unveiled its cloud platform during the VMworld 2009 show in August, is now putting the technology out into public beta. OpSource officials announced Oct. 5 that hourly access to public beta of OpSource Cloud is available here. The OpSource Cloud is designed to enable enterprises to bring the same level of security they […]

IBM is expanding its mortgage servicing business by buying the operating assets of Wilshire Credit Corp. from Bank of America. The deal, announced Oct. 5, includes Wilshire’s mortgaging service platform and is proof of IBM’s ambition to expand its capabilities around mortgage business process outsourcing solutions, according to IBM officials. Financial terms were not disclosed. […]

It was just more than a year ago, in July 2008, that Brocade Communications Systems announced its $3 billion acquisition of Foundry Networks, a move designed to give Brocade a greater unified networking fabric offering for the data center. Brocade had a strong history with Fibre Channel. Adding Foundry to the company would bring with […]

When Stephen Elliot talks to IT executives about virtualization in the data center, he often finds himself in discussions about management, risk reduction, procedure and controls. In short, executives who might be looking to virtualization for all the classic reasons-including reducing operating and capital costs-are also now keeping the management of those virtualized environments in […]

Zyrion is looking to make it easier for businesses to gauge the performance of their IT infrastructures. The company is launching Version 5.0 of its Traverse BSM (business service management) software, which includes the Network Flow Analysis feature to help IT administrators ensure the optimal performance of their IT infrastructure and various business services. Traverse […]