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Mercury Interactive will test the service-level management waters next week, hoping to dip into a more mature market for SLA monitoring. The Sunnyvale, Calif., Web site monitoring and testing leader added a new application on top of its Topaz framework that provides monitoring and enforcement of SLAs (service-level agreements). The Topaz for SLM (service-level monitoring) […]

BMC Software Inc. is looking to emphasize the “manage” in managed services with a new monitoring service. The Houston-based application management provider at Comdex in Las Vegas on Tuesday will introduce its GuardianAngel Monitoring Service. The subscription-based service allows application service providers or hosting providers to create a hosted service that can deliver server, network […]

Lucent Technologies is looking for a buyer for its enterprise professional services unit, the last step the company needs to take in its exit from the enterprise market for networking technologies and services. The services organization, formerly INS before Lucent acquired in late in 1999, is now on the block, and Lucent hopes to find […]

Candle Corp. is offering specific versions of its Omegamon Extended Edition (XE) System performance monitoring and reporting tools with the release of its IBM WebSphere tool. The Omegamon XE for WebSphere Application Server, released on Monday, is designed to help application developers and operations managers test WebSphere applications performance during implementation and deployment. Candle will […]

Startup Kevsoft Corp. is preparing to launch software that automates optimization of terminal servers such as Citrix Systems Inc.s WinFrame or Microsoft Corp.s Terminal Server. The Alpharetta, Ga., company created a series of patent-pending algorithms that can watch how servers use cache and memory and then determine how to improve the servers use of page […]

Despite its pending merger with hardware provider Compaq Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. today will reassert itself as a major software company when it introduces some 45 new or enhanced offerings targeting the data center, middleware and management. HP, in its second big attempt this year to assert its presence in the software arena, will gather […]

Much of Hewlett-Packard Co.s Utility Data Center news relies on OpenView technology, which itself will see major changes in HPs latest set of announcements. In its latest OpenView developments, HP is delivering on the Integrated Services Management vision it laid out last June at the OpenView Users Forum. That vision calls for integration of management […]

One year into the largest government outsourcing contract ever awarded, the going has been anything but smooth sailing for the $6.9 billion Navy Marine Corps Intranet project. Not only is political support for the closely watched deal wavering, but also, due to scope creep, outsourcing provider Electronic Data Systems Corp. has so far taken over […]

Perhaps one of the first real tests of the Navy Marine Corps Intranet contract came after the terrorist attack on the Pentagon Sept. 11. With an estimated 70 percent of the Navys space inside the Pentagon gone and most of the Navy Communications Center and Navy Budget Office destroyed, the Navy turned to Electronic Data […]

Web performance testing provider Atesto Technologies Inc. will challenge market leader Mercury Interactive on its own turf on Tuesday when it debuts a licensed version of its hosted testing technology. The Fremont, Calif., startup will offer its 100 percent Web-based LoadModeler software to large enterprises with their own in-house testing expertise. The new Atesto LoadModeler […]

Startup KevSoft Corp. is preparing to launch new software that automates optimization of terminal servers such as Citrix Systems Inc.s WinFrame or Microsoft Corp.s Terminal Server. The Alpharatta, Ga. company created a series of patent-pending algorithms that can watch how servers use cache and memory, and then determine how to improve the servers use of […]

Server management startup Intoka Software Inc. next week will go after medium-sized enterprises with a cheaper and simpler server management offering. For companies with between 20 and 2,000 servers, the San Francisco-based companys Cruiser software will offer top-line monitoring of servers running on multiple operating systems, including Windows, Solaris and Linux. And it will do […]