Jeff Burt

Juniper Networks is rolling out the latest generation of its WXC application acceleration platforms that company officials say will offer businesses greater scalability and cost-effectiveness. The WXC 1800, 2600 and 3400 appliances, announced July 14, are aimed at a wide range of businesses, from smaller remote offices and retailers through midsize companies to larger enterprises’ […]

It sounds like a water-cooler sort of discussion that you’d hear in any high-tech company. According to Tim Bray, one of the founders of XML and currently the director of Web technologies at Sun, some Sun employees were debating what were the best bug tracking and source code management tools out there. They decided to […]

With workers becoming increasing mobile, enterprises are relying more on virtual private networks and other point-to-point technologies to give employees access to their networks. VPNs (virtual private networks) offer solid security, but speed and reliability can be problems. The issue is that the connections are only as reliable and fast as their slowest links. Elfiq […]

WildPackets wants to give enterprises and midmarket businesses alike greater visibility into their networks. At the Cisco Live Conference June 24 in Orlando, Fla., WildPackets officials rolled out the Omnipliance SuperCore, a data recording offering to enable IT administrators to capture, monitor and analyze traffic on their 10-Gigabit networks. The goal is to give network […]

Cisco Systems wants to take the mystery out of virtualization. With virtualization spreading quickly from its roots as a server consolidation play into almost every aspect of IT-from storage to applications to desktops-Cisco is looking to rapidly grow its networking virtualization offerings. At its Cisco Live user conference June 24 in Orlando, Fla., company officials […]

Bill Karpovich knows the score. He knows that when you talk about IT monitoring and management software, the discussion starts and ends with the “Big Four”: Hewlett-Packard with its OpenView suite, IBM’s Tivoli, CA and its Unicenter software, and BMC’s Control offering. But Karpovich, the co-founder and CEO of Zenoss, also knows his IT history, […]

Uplogix is looking to make it easier for businesses to run their remote operations. With enterprises becoming more distributed and mobile, the need for more automated and secure management of those environments is rapidly growing. At the Gartner IOM (Infrastructure, Operations & Management) Summit and Cisco Live conferences in Orlando, Fla., Uplogix will roll out […]

When talking about Microsoft and virtualization, most people want to know about the company’s long-awaited Hyper-V, the hypervisor technology that sources say could arrive as soon as early July. (Microsoft officials will only say that it will ship by their early August deadline, and probably earlier.) But throughout the TechEd 2008 Professionals show here in […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-Microsoft is continuing its attempted evolution from primarily being an on-premises software provider to one that promotes services, compatibility and interoperability. That’s not to say that Microsoft is moving away from its core, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the company’s Server and Tools Business, said in his keynote here at the Microsoft TechEd […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-Microsoft officials are putting virtualization on center stage at their TechEd 2008 Professionals show here, though attendees shouldn’t expect to see the company’s Hyper-V technology. In his keynote June 10 to an expected 10,000 attendees, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business, will outline a number of new and upgraded […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-Eric Horschman knows that the once-cozy relationship that VMware and Microsoft once enjoyed is about to change in the next few weeks. “We’re clearly about to go into direct competition with Microsoft with its Hyper-V technology,” Horschman, director of product marketing for VMware, said in an interview here at the Microsoft TechEd 2008 Professionals […]

Stratus Technologies is looking to bring its fault-tolerant capabilities to the mainstream x86 server world through virtualization software. The server vendors, whose ftServer systems offer redundant components to ensure high availability, on June 10 is unveiling its Stratus Avance software, which has the open-source XenServer virtualization platform from Citrix Systems embedded inside. The technology allows […]