Paula Musich

Apparent Networks on Aug. 21 at VoiceCon will launch a version of its AppCritical network troubleshooting tool designed specifically for small and midsize enterprises and the professional services organizations that support them. AppCritical is designed specifically to help enterprises with pre-deployment assessments for adding VOIP (voice over IP to a network), and to troubleshoot and […]

The sale of IP phones went through the roof over the last year, and especially in the second quarter, with shipments growing 53 percent over the last year and 23.8 percent from the first to the second quarter, according to report just released by Synergy Research Group. The research report, which looked at the worldwide […]

CAs Wily Technology Division on Aug. 14 took a different tack on change management when it launched an extension to its Introscope 7 application performance management tool. Introscope 7, which gathers real-time performance metrics on Web applications, can now through the new ChangeDetector 7 add-on detect changes to complex Web applications and correlate those changes […]

Smaller businesses with a lot of remotely distributed PCs and laptops have always struggled with managing those far-flung resources. One vendor plans to step up to the plate to deliver a tool that will simplify that task. LogMeIns upcoming new release of its IT Reach software builds on the companys history in the area of […]

IBM in its continuing march of software acquisitions on Aug. 3 announced its plans to acquire industrial and IT asset management provider MRO Software for $740 million. The move comes a day after IBM announced its acquisition of privately held Webify for an undisclosed sum. Both companies bring to the table strong roots in SOA […]

Cisco Systems on July 31 let the next shoe drop in its bid to raise its stature as a management software provider to its networking customers when it launched its Proactive Automation of Change Execution suite. The suite, made up of both products and services, is aimed at helping the network operations team implement a […]

Ten major IT vendors including IBM, Microsoft, Intel and Hewlett-Packard on July 31 launched a standards initiative to create a common method using XML for describing network elements, servers, applications and other IT resources. The group, which also includes BEA Systems, BMC Software, Cisco Systems, Dell, EMC and Sun Microsystems, published a draft specification for […]

What does it take to bring a multispecialty medical practice into the 21st century of technology-based automation? The answer for Fallon Clinic, in Worcester, Mass., turned out to be a lot of planning, a physician champion with vision and drive, and $24 million. The group practice, with 250 physicians and 20 locations in central Massachusetts, […]

Seven months after completing its acquisition of Swan Labs, F5 Networks on July 31 will introduce new version of Swan Labs WebAccelerator integrated with F5s Traffic Management Operating System architecture. The Seattle company created a module for its BigIP application traffic management platforms, ranging from the BigIP 6400 through the BigIP 8800, and it enhanced […]

CAs financial problems continue to dog the software behemoths attempts to move its business forward. The latest in a string of bad news is that the Islandia, N.Y., company is considering a layoff of between 800 to 1000 employees in August, according to sources close to CA. While the restructuring plans are still in flux, […]

Startup Apere hopes to carve out a place in the midsize enterprise with a unique security appliance that melds identity management with access control. The Identity Managed Access Gateway takes the labor out of creating firewall policies by automatically discovering identity management information that already exists in the network and in applications and then creating […]

Hewlett Packard on July 25 advanced the consolidation trend in the management software space when it announced its plans to acquire Mercury Interactive for $4.5 billion in cash. The acquisition, rumored for months, will allow HP to combine its OpenView enterprise management software business with Mercury Interactives market leading application development testing tools and applications […]