Paula Musich

To Citrix customer Christopher Boone, Citrix Systems decision to buy virtualization provider XenSource makes sense, given the rapid growth in the increasingly competitive space. However, like other Citrix customers interviewed Aug. 15 after the deal was announced, that doesnt mean Boone will use XenSource technology for his virtualization needs. “We prefer more freeware and open […]

Load balancing provider Kemp Technologies will attempt to move up the food chain on Aug. 14 with the latest version of its appliance line aimed at medium-sized businesses. The Bethpage, N.Y., company, which has focused its lower cost load balancers on small and mid-size businesses (SMBs), will ship on Sept. 1 its new LoadMaster 3500. […]

Open-source IP PBX provider Fonality on Aug. 13 will do its part to drive down the cost of voice calls for small businesses when it launches a new hybrid hosted IP PBX offering and IP-based calling service. The combination of Fonalitys new trixbox Pro business phone system and trixNet in-network calling service allows small businesses […]

Application performance management vendor Network Physics on Aug. 10 will release a new version of its NetSensory monitoring tool that gives IT administrators and CIOs a quick view into whether application service-level agreements are being met. Network Physics, which focuses on helping IT administrators and network operators locate the source of application performance problems across […]

A small startup hopes to turn how routing is done in the Internet on its head, thanks to breakthroughs the company achieved in the new flow-based router it launched Aug. 6. Anagran, founded by one of the four pioneers credited with creating the Internet, introduced on the Aug. 6 its Anagran FR-1000 Flow Router, which […]

BMC Software continued to build on its momentum in its first fiscal quarter of 2008 by posting 7 percent revenues gains to $385 million and net income of $57 million. The Houston-based software company, building on its competitive lead in the business service management space, racked up earnings per share of 28 cents, compared to […]

Enterprise management provider CA on August 6 moved to align its service level management suite more closely with the recently released IT Infrastructure Library Version 3. The company, which is based in Islandia, N.Y., released new versions of its Unicenter Service Catalog and Unicenter Service Accounting programs that incorporate new ITIL Version 3 recommendations on […]

F5 Networks on Aug. 6 announced its intent to acquire Acopia Networks for $210 million in cash, thus snatching up the last independent file virtualization vendor left standing. Privately held Acopia will help to propel F5 Networks further into the data center with its product portfolio technology, which allows customers to virtualize heterogeneous file-storage subsystems. […]

With a handful of customers still offline on the afternoon of Aug. 3 after service outages caused by a data center migration snafu, executives at Hostway are not yet ready for a Monday morning quarterbacking session. But industry pundits had plenty of opinions on how to avoid the type of lengthy outages some of Hostways […]

Cisco Systems, after planting its strategy flag in the fertile data center soil earlier this week, wasted no time in advancing that strategy by announcing on July 27 that it has taken a $150 million stake in VMware. With its new 1.6 percent ownership of VMware, Cisco hopes to gain new ground in the data […]

ANAHEIM, Calif.—Cisco Systems Cisco Networkers user conference, normally a place for network engineers and technicians to learn new tricks and techniques to keep networks humming, this year began to move up the food chain. At at the July 22-26 conference here, Cisco added new sessions, user case studies and high-level briefings to draw more IT […]

Riverbed Technology is tossing its WAN optimization hat into the client ring with its first software-based offering for road warriors and other remote workers. The new Riverbed Steelhead Mobile client, announced July 26, delivers a performance boost for centralized applications accessed from individual laptops or desktops over a WAN connection. It is intended to help […]