Paula Musich

With 10 Gigabit Ethernet prices coming down and data center performance requirements going up, Cisco Systems is moving to grab broader market acceptance for its high-speed networking technology. On Sept. 25, Cisco launched a higher-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet module for its Catalyst 6500 that doubles the number of ports, increases performance by 60 percent and […]

EMCs Smarts unit on Oct. 2 will bring greater insight into the impact of infrastructure problems on applications and services when it introduces the next major release of its EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager software. The new release begins to integrate with its Smarts root-cause analysis software the application dependency discovery and mapping technology EMC […]

3Com on October 2 will claim a first in introducing a single Layer 2 switch that combines Gigabit Ethernet switching, Power over Ethernet on every port and an integrated wireless controller designed and priced specifically for small and midsize businesses. The new 3Com Unified Gigabit Wireless PoE Switch 24 supports converged wired and wireless networking […]

CA on Sept. 27 will officially enter the configuration management database fray when its own CMDB becomes generally available. CA at the same time said that the automated application dependency discovery and mapping technology it acquired earlier this month with its Cendura acquisition will be offered to CA CMDB customers as a free upgrade by […]

Cisco Systems will bring its heft and credibility to the video streaming and video-on-demand market on Sept. 26 when it launches its digital media system. The new system, which includes a line of digital media encoders, a digital media manager and a video portal, is the first fully integrated offering from a well-known brand in […]

With 10 Gigabit Ethernet prices coming down and data center performance requirements going up, Cisco Systems moved to grab greater IT mindshare in preparation for broader market acceptance of the high speed networking technology. Cisco on Sept. 25 launched a higher-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet module for its Catalyst 6500 to that doubles the number of […]

Klir Technologies on Sept. 25 brought the community collaboration experience of Web 2.0 applications to the task of managing IT infrastructure with its Klir Analytics 3.0 release. Klir, which provides a SAAS (software as a service) offering for managing the performance and availability of servers and network devices, hopes to bring to SMBs (small and […]

Network General, in conjunction with its 20th anniversary, revamped its products and architecture at Interop on Sept. 18 in a broad update to its Sniffer platform. The company, with its new Network Intelligence Suite and Network Intelligence Architecture, hopes to move out of the trenches as a tool supplier for network engineers to offer a […]

Citrix Systems, wasting no time launching WAN optimization appliances based on its recent Orbital Data acquisition, introduced Sept. 18 its WANScaler 8000 line along with a new release of its NetScaler Web application acceleration software. With WAN optimization and application acceleration poised to go mainstream in some large enterprises, Citrix at Interop in New York […]

BlueNote Networks on Sept. 25 introduced a pair of new software offerings that marry voice over IP with service-oriented architectures. The startups aim in the new SessionSuite SOA Edition and SessionSuite Desktop products is to allow voice to be embedded within SOA applications running on IP networks. “SOA brings to an IT organization a distributed […]