Paula Musich

Businesses that moved to voice over IP calling services to lower their phone bills could see a portion of their savings disappear if the most recent FCC proposal to add VOIP services to the Universal Service Fund is adopted. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin proposed recently that VOIP service providers such as Vonage, Skype and others […]

Niche application performance management vendor Confio Software will combine the deep dive it does into Oracle database operations with a deep dive into the Java applications that rely on those databases in a suite it is expected to launch in June. Confio carved out a place among vendors such as Quest Software, Symantec and the […]

With voice over IP consumer usage poised to become a mass market, existing users are fairly satisfied with their service, according to a new survey released on May 31 by SupportSoft. Sixty one percent of the 100 VOIP users subscribing to a cable-based service surveyed said that they are satisfied with their service, despite the […]

ProactiveNet, the David of the Business Service Management realm, on May 30 will launch a new version of its namesake software to compete with BSM Goliaths such as Mercury Interactive and BMC Software. ProactiveNet 7.0 goes toe-to-toe with Mercurys products through a new, re-architected Web recorder and transaction playback function that integrates technology from Segue. […]

Now that its wrapped up the big integration work with its major R11 releases, CA plans quick integration releases to capitalize on the common services exploited by the R11 releases. The first quick release involves the combination of CAs Service Desk and Harvest change management software and initial integration of the Niku Clarity project portfolio […]

Larger networks with multiple firewalls often leave black holes in a network managers visibility into portions of a corporate network beyond a campus firewall. Magnum Technologies, which provides a correlation adjunct to network management frameworks like HPs OpenView and IBMs NetView, will boost that visibility by as much as 75 percent in the latest release […]

Application acceleration startup Silver Peak Systems on May 22 made a play for space in medium-sized data centers with the release of its second appliance and a new global management system. The Mountain View, Calif., companys new NX-5500 appliance supports a WAN capacity of 50M bps (megabits per second) and two terabytes of locally encrypted […]

IBM on May 18 announced that it has agreed to acquire a privately held Swiss company that markets software capable of automatically installing software on thousands of servers, desktops and laptops in hours rather than days. The small, privately held Rembo Technology, based in Geneva, Switzerland, will extend IBMs Virtualization Engine product portfolio, bringing to […]

BMC software is promising to bring users another step closer to the holy grail of IT management: managing infrastructure from the business perspective. BMC on May 15 is releasing new deliverables in its BSM (Business Service Management) initiative, including the second generation of both its Atrium CMDB (Configuration Management Database) and its Automated Discovery. In […]

CA announced a third executive departure on May 15 when it said that Robert Davis, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will leave. Davis, who took over the CFO job in February 2005, follows the announcement last week that CAs Chief Technology Officer Mark Barrenechea is leaving. In mid-April Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke […]

Application acceleration provider Expand Networks on May 15 will take its OEM arrangements with wide-area file services provider DiskSites to a deeper level when it announces its agreement to acquire the company. Although the two privately held companies would not disclose the purchase price, the deal calls for DiskSites shareholders to receive 13.5 percent of […]

CAs Wily Technology Division, following its acquisition by CA early this year, wasted no time in launching a major new release of its Introscope applications management platform. The division on May 15 will introduce a re-architected version of the Java-based application management system that extends its coverage to .Net. Introscope 7, the most significant release […]