Paula Musich

Opsware Inc., the company formerly known as Loudcloud, reported a 24 percent jump in second quarter revenues over the same quarter last year. The Sunnyvale, Calif. company, which earlier this month closed the sale of its managed services business to Electronic Data Systems Corp. for $63.5 million, narrowed its net loss in the quarter to […]

Dutch banking behemoth ABN Amro Bank N.V. narrowed down its list of possible outsourcers to EDS for its Wholesale Client banking unit. Although the two firms dont expect to complete contract negotiations until the fourth quarter, EDS is the sole contender to supply IT services, worth at least $1.5 billion, although that figure could go […]

Unisys Corp. and partners get to start with a clean sheet of paper in setting up the IT infrastructure for the new U.S. Transportation Security Administration. The contract, signed last week, gives Unisys and its 31 partners the freedom to select the components they believe will best suit the TSAs goals, according to Clay Foushee, […]

Coradiant Inc. is looking to raise the bar on Web performance management with its latest OutSight tool. Version 1.7 includes enhancements to the software-as-a-service technology for tracking and tweaking Web sites performance. Coradiant, which competes most directly with Mercury Interactive Corp., added the ability to collaborate among members of a customers IT staff and between […]

Intel today finally launched support in its LANDesk Management Suite for mobile laptops and PDAs with its new LANDesk Mobile Manager option. The new software distribution, asset and inventory management option integrates Xcellenet Inc.s Afaria remote management software into the LANDesk management console. Although Intel is late to market with its mobile management offering, its […]

The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company hopes to find new ways to make money through its recently signed outsourcing contract with IBM Global Services (IGS). IGS won the 10-year contract—valued in the hundreds of millions—based on the strength of its cost savings bid and its “world class infrastructure services,” according to Greg Fox, […]

Maintenance services arent glamorous, but they can be strategic—especially when they cover mission-critical servers and applications that impact the bottom line. When America West Airlines Inc. began searching for a way to manage its systems and reduce the number of flight delays and cancellations resulting from server failures, the company went to Fujitsu Technology Solutions […]

Coradiant Inc. sought to raise the bar on Web performance management in the latest release of its OutSight performance management technology. The Boston-based firm next week will introduce a series of enhancements made to its software-as-a-service technology for tracking and tweaking the performance of Web sites. Coradiant, which competes most directly with Mercury Interactive Inc., […]

BMC Software Inc. next week will introduce a scaled-down version of its Patrol application performance management software. The Houston management software powerhouse today released the tool, called the Patrol Express, an agentless version of its enterprise-class application monitoring tool. It is intended for service providers as well as larger IT shops that interact with user […]

Managed services provider Digex Inc. will cut about 200 workers — 20 percent of its workforce — in an effort to improve the companys bottom line, according to officials. The cuts, despite coming as majority owner WorldCom Inc. prepares its bankruptcy plan, are not related to the Clinton, Miss. carriers financial woes, according to Digex […]

As Loudcloud Inc. works to build momentum behind its operations management software licensing initiative, issues from the companys roots as an MSP may dog the effort. Loudcloud, which is in the midst of changing its name to Opsware Inc., will announce this week the addition of some 60 modules to its namesake platform that deliver […]

A pair of it consultancies last week aligned themselves with vendors in the promising SAN- and service-level-management spaces. RJ Technology Solutions Inc. officials said the company has joined InfoVista Corp.s new partner program to provide implementation services built around InfoVistas performance management suite. RJ Technology Solutions, of Farmington Hills, Mich., chose the InfoVista software because […]