Paula Musich

Juniper Networks reported on Oct. 18 a 5 percent rise in revenue for its third fiscal quarter of 2006, but the company did not detail net income and earnings because of an ongoing internal stock options investigation. Revenue for the quarter rose to $573.6 million compared to $546.4 million a year ago. For the year […]

CA on Oct. 9 made its biggest bid yet to help IT customers get their budgets under control when it introduced a major upgrade of its Clarity project portfolio management software. Clarity 8, in development since before CA obtained the software with its Niku acquisition in 2005, includes four new modules and 150 individual enhancements […]

Application delivery controller vendor Radware announced Oct. 9 it is teaming up with Forum Systems to integrate XML acceleration and security functions into Radwares AppXcel appliances. The result of the joint development effort will be an optional software module that combines Forums XML acceleration, policy-based XML message handling and protection against message-based security threats and […]

Juniper Networks on Oct. 18 will seek to silence critics who bemoan the companys lack of an Ethernet edge aggregation switch for service providers by launching its new MX-Series product line. The MX-Series switch/router is built to optimize both Layer 2 and Layer 3 functions and provide high-density Ethernet interfaces. The 14-slot MX960 chassis can […]

Better management of voice over IP technology as well as enhanced management of call center activities is the focus of several new or enhanced products to debut at the Internet Telephony conference in San Diego on Oct. 10. A handful of VOIP vendors, including Toshiba, Qovia, Switchvox and Spanlink Communications, are targeting small and midsize […]

Application delivery controller vendor Radware on Oct. 9 will announce that it is teaming up with Forum Systems to integrate XML acceleration and security functions into Radwares AppXcel appliances. The result of their joint development effort will be an optional software module for the AppXcel appliances that combines Forum Systems XML acceleration, policy-based XML message […]

Citrix Systems on Oct. 9 announced that it has “Citrix-sized” its acquired user response time monitoring software and made it available through its Global Citrix Partner Program. Citrix, which last May acquired Reflectent Software and its EdgeSight application performance monitoring tool, has integrated a standalone version of the tool and a version specific to monitoring […]

Juniper Networks and Silver Peak Systems are looking to grow their offerings in the application acceleration space. Juniper on Oct. 16 will address the need to scale deployments of its WXC line of application acceleration appliances by introducing a new high-end version and an update to the lines operating system software. The WXC 590 is […]

Technology executives are centralizing data while their employees are dispersing far and wide. Theyre all waiting anxiously for the WAN to deliver hot applications—fast—to mobile workers hankering for performance. Technology managers and vendors are racing to oblige. This perfect storm of needs—including more mobile workers, the Webification of software, speedier networks and office consolidation—is driving […]

Force10 Networks on Oct. 9 will make its move out of the data center and into the wiring closet when it introduces its first LAN switches for enterprise networks. The San Jose, Calif., company, a mainstay in many high performance computing and large data center environments, will introduce its new S50V and S25 wiring closet […]