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Avaya reasserted its leadership in the fragmented Unified Communications space on Nov. 16 when it launched a revamped product lineup and announced its acquisition of mobility applications provider Traverse Networks. Avayas new Unified Communications Division, formed in September in an effort to more coherently address the entire market, will bring Traverse Networks under its wing […]

Network management software vendor AlterPoint on Nov. 14 will release portions of its code, contributing to the development of open-source network management. AlterPoint will launch its ZipTie open-source project at the Gartner Enterprise Networking Summit, in Las Vegas, with the aim of creating a community to maintain and extend multivendor network element management software. Specifically, […]

Nortel Networks will continue its convergence push into the small and midsize business space on Nov. 15 when it broadens its portfolio of LAN switches and mobility offerings. Nortel will fill out its convergence-ready LAN switches for SMBs first launched in September with a pair of new Business Ethernet Switches aimed at small workgroups and […]

Microsoft will try to move from the kids table at the enterprise management feast to the grown-ups table when it launches the private beta of its new help desk offering and announces its participation in the Configuration Management Database Federation Working Group at the TechEd: IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain. Microsofts new System Center help […]

Keynote Systems is looking to bolster its dominance in the Web performance measurement services space with a major new release of its Keynote Transaction Perspective service. On the heels of its largest revenue gain since the company was founded—it posted $15.2 million in revenue in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2006—Keynote on Nov. 7 added […]

REDMOND, Wash.—An important distinction between the Windows Vista rollout and previous Microsoft operating system upgrades is the amount of effort Microsoft has put into reducing both the cost and time to deployment for Vista. When Vista launches later this month, there will be at least $40 to $50 million worth of investment in making Vista […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft will try to move up from the kids table at the enterprise management feast when it launches the private beta of its new Service Desk offering Nov. 14 and announces its participation in the Configuration Management Database Federation Working Group at the IT Forum, in Barcelona, Spain. The new System Center help desk […]

Keynote Systems on Nov. 7 will seek to bolster its dominance in the Web performance-measurement services space when it launches a major new release of its flagship Keynote Transaction Perspective service. On the heels of its largest revenue gain since the company was founded, at $15.2 million for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2006, Keynote […]

Microsofts new open XML file format could take the wind out of the sails of application acceleration vendors thanks to the compression it adds to those files. One new startup in the fast maturing market is working to exploit that. Certeon on Nov. 6 will release its new S-Series application acceleration blueprints for Microsoft Office […]

Former CA CEO Sanjay Kumar on Nov. 2 was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $8 million for his actions in CAs customer contract backdating scandal. Kumar pleaded guilty earlier in 2006 to several charges, including obstructing justice, securities fraud, false filings to the Security Exchange Commission and others. He was convicted on […]

Most hotel property management companies are not forward thinkers when it comes to technology. With a converged network project at the new luxury Hotel 1000 in Seattle, MTM Managements MTM Luxury Lodging seeks to establish itself as a technology leader among its peers. Using the Cisco Unified Communications system and a series of VOIP (voice […]

Juniper Networks in an uncharacteristic move on Oct. 30 previewed its branch office strategy that calls for delivery of products that consolidate functions over the next 18 to 24 months. In jumping on the branch-in-a-box bandwagon, Juniper hopes to establish its presence in enterprise remote sites on the strength of its newer NetScreen Secure Services […]