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Microsoft this week at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver will announce plans to release to manufacturing its new Systems Center Remote Operations Manager 2007, intended to help channel partners provide remote management services for their midsize clients. ROM 2007, which will RTM later this month, works in conjunction with Systems Center Essentials 2007 installed […]

A new startup is moving to elbow its way into the competitive WAN optimization and application acceleration market with a new technique for speeding the transfer of very large files across TCP/IP. FastSoft will address the lag time in transmitting large files using industry-standard FTP with its new Aria appliance. It is an asymmetric device […]

As the use of smart phones skyrockets, the need to centrally manage those devices is becoming apparent. Remote PC control provider LogMeIn on June 28 jumped in to satisfy that demand with a new Web-based remote control program for centrally managing smart phones. The new LogMeIn Rescue Mobile software allows help desk technicians or other […]

Network and security services provider Virtela Communications on June 28 launched a new service allowing IT departments to outsource management of WAN optimization and application acceleration. Virtelas Accelerated WAN Service, offered in 190 countries worldwide, is the first to package and productize the service on a global scale based on next-generation appliances. “Weve seen a […]

Packet loss is a common occurrence for most network interface cards, whether theyre LAN or WAN interfaces. However, for certain security or financial services applications, 100 percent packet capture can be a must. Endace, a small company based in Manukau City, New Zealand, will introduce on June 28 a network appliance that officials claim guarantees […]

Compuware on June 26 will continue to assert its leadership in the IT project and portfolio management space when it launches Version 12 of its Changepoint product. Changepoint, positioned in the leaders portion of Gartners Magic Quadrant for IT Project and Portfolio management along with CAs Clarity, HPs PPM and others, addressed in the new […]

CA will put a new twist on an old network fault monitoring tool when it adds new features to its CA Spectrum. With the added ability to monitor network device configuration changes, the June 25 release of Spectrum 8.1 makes it possible to more closely relate configuration changes to availability or performance problems in the […]

Apparent Networks and Polycom will team up to help small and midsize enterprises cost-effectively perform predeployment assessments to determine whether an IP network is capable of effectively handling voice traffic. Starting on June 20, the two companies will provide to Polycom service providers a new tool that allows them to offer a hosted network-readiness assessment […]

Planview, maker of IT project and portfolio management software, is ready to take the wraps off a joint alliance with BMC Software. The alliance agreement, which will be unveiled June 19 at the Gartner Project and Portfolio Management Summit in Boston, calls for both vendors to provide a series of integrations between the BMC Remedy […]

Network General wasted no time upgrading its VoIP Forensics tool released last September with the launch on June 18 of a VoIP Intelligence module for the suite. VoIP Forensics, designed to help enterprise IT shops better monitor and manage new voice over IP services, marries high-level VOIP performance monitoring and alarming on VOIP metrics with […]

Seven months after the close of Hewlett-Packards acquisition of Mercury Interactive, HP will try to prove it is effectively integrating the largest software acquisition in its history with the launch of a wide-ranging set of software releases and services. With new offerings in quality assurance, load testing, IT service management, and change and configuration management, […]

The use of video as a communications tool in the enterprise is moving out of the executive suite and onto users desktops, and videoconferencing provider Polycom is stepping up to help enterprises manage and secure that video content. On June 18, the Pleasanton, Calif., company will launch what officials say is the first enterprise video […]