Paula Musich

Pure-play ASP Corio Inc. just bulked up to become what officials say is the largest of the pure-play ASPs in closing its acquisition of Qwest CyberSolutions LLC. The San Carlos, Calif.-based ASP, already considered a leading application services provider in some of its practice areas built around applications from Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc., Siebel Systems […]

In the burgeoning arena of offshore software development and services outsourcing, India remains the country to beat. But a growing number of international contenders, notably Russia, are bidding to grab a bigger slice of the pie. Today, India accounts for 85 percent of the global offshore technology outsourcing business, with the remaining 15 percent scattered […]

Hewlett-Packard Co.s services unit last week announced its largest IT outsourcing contract ever in a $1.5 billion deal with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The Palo Alto, Calif., company separately bought out CIBCs half interest in its Intria-HP joint IT services venture with CIBC subsidiary Intria Corp. In the seven-year contract with CIBC, HP will […]

Heroix Corp. today continued to play to its installed base of application-performance management customers with new features in the latest release of its Heroix eQ Management Suite. Version 1.5 of the monitoring, reporting and alerting tool adds 18 new sensors for monitoring Microsoft Active Directory implementations. The sensors are intended to help detect problems with […]

At the end of this month, MicroMuse Inc. will address the scalability issues that have dogged large enterprise users of its NetCool/Omnibus event management software. The network and systems management tool, widely used among service providers and large enterprises to manage IP networks, was re-architected to be able to handle hundreds of concurrent operators and […]

With capacity planning back in vogue now, thanks to tight IT budgets, BMC Software is moving to beef up its performance management and capacity planning tools to attract new business. The Houston, Texas, enterprise management software provider earlier this week launched a new Enterprise Performance Assurance initiative that cuts across its mainframe and distributed systems […]

Hewlett Packard Co.s services unit this morning announced its largest IT outsourcing contract ever in a $1.5 billion deal with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The Palo Alto, Calif., company separately bought out CIBCs half interest in its Intria-HP joint IT services venture. In its seven-year outsourcing contract with CIBC, HP will provide a range […]

IBMs Tivoli software unit next month will roll out across-the-board updates to its management tools to offer better performance and tighter integration with other IBM offerings, such as WebSphere and storage products. The unit will announce the sweeping product enhancements along with claims of significant competitive advances against large rivals such as Computer Associates International […]

Startup CenterRun Inc. will give Opsware Inc. a run for its money in chasing data center management opportunities with the latest release of its namesake automated configuration management tool. The Redwood City, Calif., startup this week announced Version 2.0 of its tool, which provides automated change management for complex Web applications. CenterRun 2.0 adds clustering […]

Sept. 11 proved for some telecommunications companies that their security mechanisms were airtight. Others found that security needed tweaking. Most believe their contingency plans stood up well under the attack. AT&T Wireless discovered that it needed to alter how its network was configured. Prior to Sept. 11, the wireless carrier relied on a single Verizon […]

Traffic-management-turned-application-performance-management-provider Resonate Inc. Monday announced a new release of its flagship Commander tool that further expands the products reach. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company next week will release Commander 2.1 with enhanced root cause identification, more corrective actions, and enhanced usability and scale. The new Commander release can now identify failures across multi-URL transactions and execute […]

Electronic Data Systems Corp. last week announced plans to meter computer usage in its hosting centers in order to bill customers based on use rather than on flat fees. EDS, which is implementing Ejasent Inc.s MicroMeasure software, is building on its computing-on-demand initiative and will offer the new service to EDS hosting clients. The service […]