Paula Musich

The Distributed Management Task Force on Dec. 4 completed its work on developing a framework for managing heterogeneous servers in a data center. The full suite of specifications for the Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware, released on Dec. 4, is intended to help enterprises lower operational costs by providing an intuitive and uniform way […]

Cisco Systems, fresh from selling its 2 millionth Integrated Services Router, is launching a host of additional services and features in the branch office router. Officials for Cisco, which rolled out the ISRs more than two years ago with integrated support for voice over IP, security and other services, said Dec. 4 that the company […]

Video conferencing vendor Codian on Dec. 4 sought to raise the bar on the quality of conferences for mixed standard and high definition conferences. Recognizing that participants are often on different types of equipment and use different network connection speeds, the London-based company developed a new Multipoint Control Unit conference bridge that can accommodate those […]

Juniper Networks on Dec. 4 launched a new operating software release for its SSL VPN appliances that further broadens the range of end user devices that it supports. Junipers new IVE (Instant Virtual Extranet) version 5.4 release extends SSL security to Windows Mobile 5.0 and other PDA clients as well as Intel-based Macintosh and Red […]

Cisco Systems at ITU Telecom World in Hong Kong on Dec. 4 will continue its push into the uncharted IP TV waters with a series of new products and enhancements to the Cisco 7600 router series that will enable service providers to deliver the “Video 2.0” experience. In reaction to the rise of VOD (video […]

One year after its latest identity management acquisition, Hewlett-Packard will launch a major upgrade to its identity management suite on Nov. 30. Almost a year to the date after announcing its acquisition of Trustgenix, HP will introduce new integration, automation and deployment features across the four products that make up the suite. New integration works […]

Novell trailed into the market for managing virtual machine and grid computing systems in the data center on Nov. 28 when it launched four new ZENworks offerings. At the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas, Novell introduced its first products designed to manage heterogeneous virtual machine and grid computing environments to help reduce the […]

CA on Nov. 27 will broaden the range of options for managing a heterogeneous mix of virtual servers and server clusters when it launches the next major version of its Unicenter Advanced Systems Management software. With the adoption of server virtualization and clustering ramping up quickly, a lot of IT shops are beginning to struggle […]

Solidcore Systems on Nov. 27 will come out with a unique twist on the change management automation theme for data centers when it introduces the ability to enforce change policies. That capability, delivered through a new module in Solidcores S3 Change Control software, integrates with BMC Remedy Action Request System to block any changes not […]

Qlusters married power management with open-source data center management on Nov. 20 when it added new power management plug-ins to its openQRM provisioning and data center management tool. The new plug-ins specifically deliver automated power management for Dell DRAC, HP ILO and Intel IPMI enabled servers. They allow users to automatically turn the power off […]

F5 Networks is marrying the scalability of its high-performance Big-IP traffic management appliance with the anti-spam protection of Secure Computings TrustedSource database to help enterprises better handle the rising tide of unwanted spam. With spam growing exponentially, enterprises are finding that their anti-spam infrastructure cant scale to match it in a cost-effective manner. F5 Networks, […]

Video networking vendor VBrick Systems on Nov. 17 will help enterprises deliver live and video on demand to even small, remote offices with a new appliance that can overcome low-bandwidth WAN restrictions. The new VBrick WM Appliance, which supports the widely used Windows Media format, provides a reflecting capability that allows a single video stream […]