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Israeli database accelerator startup InfoCyclone Ltd. at this weeks Oracle World conference in San Francisco will show off its flagship appliance designed to help enterprises boost database performance without having to pay for costly server upgrades. The InfoCyclone acceleration appliance, installed between the application servers and database servers, monitors and analyzes SQL query traffic, identifies […]

Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday rolled out a laundry list of new and enhanced IP telephony products designed to help customers increase end-user productivity. The new and enhanced products run the gambit from a new low-end IP Phone to an executive assistant tool that allows administrators to manage phone calls for up to five executives. […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is making a run at a key piece of the Web services industry and is leveraging its system management software to do it. The Palo Alto, Calif., company next week will announce its Adaptive Management Platform, which is built around HPs OpenView management software and serves as an end-to-end service management infrastructure, sources […]

Service level management provider InfoVista S.A. this week at the Networld + Interop trade show in Paris brought out the latest release of its Vista Portal and a set of pre-defined performance reports combined with its configuration manager. VistaPortal, the Paris-based companys flagship browser-based console, provides a centralized view of performance and service-level management data […]

Automating software change management across multiple data centers will become a reality next week with the latest release of Opsware Inc.s data center automation tool. Opsware System 3.5, along with its new Multi-Master capability, adds the ability to automatically discover software, down to the patch level, running on systems in the data center and also […]

Despite the downturn and weak service provider market, Cisco Systems Inc. managed to post a 9 percent revenue increase to $4.8 billion for its first fiscal quarter of 2003, compared to the same year-ago period. Net income for the quarter rose to $618 million or 8 cents a share, compared to a net loss of […]

Avanade Inc. last week became the latest consultancy to follow the IT consulting dollars to a formalized set of services intended to help clients get the most out of their servers, storage and infrastructure. As new systems integration projects become increasingly scarce, the Seattle-based company is among a growing number of IT consulting and outsourcing […]

Network trouble-shooting startup Jaalam Technologies Inc. this week will launch a lightweight, portable version of its flagship product to deliver what it hopes will be the next must-have tool for network engineers. After months of gathering feedback from early users, the Vancouver, British Columbia, company is revamping its AppareNet software, making it faster and less […]

Web applications management provider Tonic Software Inc. this week announced it has refined its flagship software to speed time-to-repair for application failures. Tonic Version 3.0, which provides fault monitoring, problem isolation, reporting and automated resolution for applications running on IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLobic servers, adds new correlation functions that help to reduce the number […]

Keynote Systems Inc. late Monday reported that its revenues increased 2 percent to $9.7 million for its fourth fiscal quarter, ended September 30, but that it recorded a larger than expected net loss of $53.9 million or $1.93 per share. Although the San Mateo, Calif., Internet performance management testing provider had expected to record a […]

Micromuse Inc. saw quarterly revenues slip as the network management software maker continued to be hurt by the telecom slide. The company is planning layoffs as a result. The San Francisco vendor Tuesday reported revenues of $25 million for its fourth quarter, slightly less than projected, and a net loss of $56.5 million. “The September […]

Startup Quantiva Inc. hopes to break into Web transaction management with a tool that draws on sophisticated mathematical algorithms to automate the diagnosis of transaction problems from the customers perspective. The Quantiva Analysis System, announced last week, is a service designed to help business-to-business site operators detect and diagnose performance problems before they affect end […]