Paula Musich

IBM and Nortel Networks on Feb. 14 announced they will team up to bring service-oriented architecture technologies into the telecommunications space for carriers and service providers. IBM said it plans to leverage Nortels presence and expertise in carrier networks to drive more of its SOA-based technologies into next-generation telecom networks based on the industry standard […]

Citrix Systems moved past the engagement stage with OEM Aurema and into wedding on Feb. 14 when it announced it has acquired the workload management assets of the privately held company. Citrix, which has licensed portions of Auremas processor workload management technology for use in the Citrix Presentation Server since 2004, would not reveal the […]

Nimsoft, as part of its effort to be the vendor to bring service-level management to medium-sized enterprises, set its sights on both midsize enterprises and managed services providers on Feb. 12 with the release of the latest version of its IT infrastructure monitoring tool, Nimbus. The small but fast-growing company added automated discovery to the […]

Citrix on Feb. 12 will throw its weight behind the growing application streaming/virtualization movement when it launches the long-awaited Tarpon technology in a major new release of its Presentation Server. Citrix developed its own application streaming technology for use in Presentation Server 4.5, unlike heavyweights Microsoft and Symantec, which both bought application virtualization technology with […]

Configuration audit and control provider Tripwire is giving IT a better handle on controlling configuration changes that can cause outages or compliance issues. The company on Feb. 5 launched the latest release of its Tripwire Enterprise software, which is designed to help IT track changes made outside existing policies to help reduce the amount of […]

Avaya on Feb. 26 will bring the big business benefits of voice over IP to very small businesses when it releases a new version of its IP Office IP telephony offering. Avaya in the launch of its latest IP Office offering took several steps to make IP telephony accessible and affordable for businesses with as […]

BMC Software, now a Wall Street darling with a stock price thats doubled in the past two years, has transformed itself from a company struggling to remain profitable to one that is outpacing competitors—despite a relatively flat mainframe management software market. As it dismissed workers and suffered through acquisition rumors, the company worked to flesh […]

BMC Software surpassed the high end of revenue projections for its third fiscal quarter of 2007 on Feb. 8 when it posted a 9 percent gain to $413 million. BMC had projected last quarter that it would generate as much as $410 million. The company also topped out its non-GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) earnings […]

Novell on Feb. 7 put a blueprint forward on its vision for helping IT implement automated management spanning the desktop to the data center. Novells Desktop-to-Data Center Management Blueprint, based on ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) methodologies, is intended to describe for Novell customers and partners how to manage complex IT infrastructures to maximize use of […]

Performance monitoring provider eG Innovations moves to stake a claim as a leader in managing terminal services on Feb. 12, when it plans to introduce the next major release of its eG Enterprise Suite. Already a self-declared expert in managing Citrix environments, the company will extend its management offerings to Microsoft Windows Terminal Services. “Terminal […]

Cisco Systems on Feb. 6 showed that it has continued to roll up healthy earnings increases, reporting a 40 percent rise in net income and earnings per share at $1.9 billion and 31 cents per share respectively for its second fiscal quarter of 2007. The earnings increase came on the back of a revenue rise […]

NetCordia, a network management company following a road less traveled, released the second major software version for its unique NetMRI network analysis and reporting appliance. NetMRI uses a variety of collection mechanisms to gather configuration and operational data from switches and routers to allow network engineers to more quickly troubleshoot and resolve complex network problems. […]