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SAN FRANCISCO—IBM Tuesday launched its most powerful zSeries mainframe—code-named T-Rex—and IBM Global Services will be one of the first to use it in its brand new data center in Boulder, Colo. When IBM “cuts the ribbon” on the new On Demand Data Center in June, it will seamlessly move its customers to a pair of […]

Keynote Systems Inc. last week delved deeper into a vertical focus on online performance benchmarking services, launching a pair of transaction testing services aimed at online banking and retail. Keynote at the Forrester Finance Forum in New York unveiled what it said is the first Consumer E-Commerce Transaction Index along with the Keynote e-Banking Transaction […]

Startup Ipsum Networks Inc. this week will up the ante in managing IP routing when it releases its flagship Route Dynamics tool with the ability to automatically perform root-cause analysis for IP routing failures. Traditional enterprise network management systems address the physical connectivity of network nodes, including routers, but do not detect logical network traffic […]

AmberPoint Inc. last week aimed to bring another level of business maturity to Web services with the release of its new AmberPoint Service Level Manager. The tool, which works with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition and .Net Web services platforms, can monitor performance and availability of Web services to match business priorities. The system can […]

Managed Objects Inc. on Monday will deliver some new guidance in the quest to make IT more business centric when it launches a pair of new management tools focused on the end user experience. The McLean, Va., company will introduce its new Business Experience Manager, which provides end user and application performance monitoring and reporting, […]

T-Systems Inc. is preparing to launch next month a new managed services toolset for its managed network and IT services operation that will allow customers to monitor the performance of their network and IT infrastructures against service-level agreements (SLAs). The DecisionPilot toolset is built on a series of third-party management tools integrated by T-Systems and […]

Foundry Networks Inc. last week unveiled its next-generation terabit switching architecture along with the first two products that implement the high-performance hardware architecture. The foundation of the architecture is 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology, and it will be targeted at enterprises as well as service providers for LAN, metropolitan area network and WAN applications. “The next-generation […]

Computer Associates International Inc. last week outlined its vision for on-demand computing and put products behind it. Unlike platform providers, with strategies centered on hardware, CA waited to be able to deliver functionality before launching its campaign, according to Sanjay Kumar (pictured), chairman and CEO of the Islandia, N.Y., company. “We decided a year ago […]

NetBotz Corp., which pioneered the development of IP-based physical security appliances, this week will launch the next generation of its Sentry devices. The WallBotz 500, along with a new version of the vendors management tool, was developed in response to customer feedback, said officials in Austin, Texas. The WallBotz 500 is a modular appliance that […]

The Siemens AG subsidiary Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. last week outlined its plans to marry physical security and network/information security in a wide-ranging initiative. Siemens ICN, based in Boca Raton, Fla., last week debuted its HiPath SIcurity Solutions portfolio of products and services geared toward network and application-level security for IP networks. The […]