Paula Musich

Despite flat earnings in its third fiscal quarter of 2006, Cisco Systems was bullish on its quarter overall and in looking ahead into the next quarter. Cisco posted a net income of $1.4 billion or 22 cents a share for the quarter ending April 29, similar to the same quarter a year earlier. But revenue […]

WAN optimization provider Packeteer on May 9 sought to extend its business into the wide-area file services arena when it announced its plans to acquire Tacit Networks for $78 million. Packeteer, which had already established a reseller agreement with the South Plainfield, N.J., company last fall, found Tacit to be a more strategic play for […]

NetScout Systems and Mercury Interactive on May 10 will team up to combine NetScouts deep-dive network monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting with Mercurys application management. Mercury, at its Mercury World Australia users conference in Melbourne will demonstrate the results of its integration partnership with NetScout—an adapter that allows performance data gathered by NetScout probes and nGenius […]

Citrix Systems hit the acquisition trail again, this time picking up privately held Reflectent Software for an undisclosed sum, the company announced May 7. Reflectent, with just under 50 customers and 31 employees, provides deskside application performance management software that provides IT administrators and LOB (Line of Business) managers with metrics that measure the actual […]

LAS VEGAS—Avaya is seeking to make it easy for midsize enterprises to adopt IP telephony applications by launching at Interop here new products and services that lower entry costs and ease implementation. Among the new offerings, targeted at businesses with between 100 to 500 employees, are flexible hosted services for IP telephony, contact center and […]

LAS VEGAS—Extreme Networks at Interop on May 2 turned its attention to security when it announced three new security partners integrating their technologies with Extremes open switch operating system and new standards commitments for securing IP telephony. Extreme teamed up with Internet Security Systems to create a prototype for implementing intrusion prevention within the Extreme […]

To date application accelerators have addressed performance bottlenecks in front of the Web server. Startup Crescendo Networks on May 1 at Interop in Las Vegas introduced new technology that deals with the bottlenecks behind the Web server. The company believes it is taking application accelerators, or Application Front Ends, to the next level by making […]

Its been a year since Microsoft said it wanted to become a major player in the competitive enterprise systems management space. At the Microsoft Management Summit here April 24-28, the company introduced several offerings designed to bolster that push. Two additions to Microsofts growing basket of System Center products include a new service desk offering […]

Juniper Networks made it clear it wants to become a bigger player in the WAN optimization and application acceleration space when it bought Peribit Networks and Redline Networks in 2005, but its since said little to enterprise customers about its vision for those technologies. That quiet ends the week of May 1 at Interop in […]

Ciscos 7200 Series Router—like a Swiss army knife—will get still more handy features to better handle the increasing demands coming from edge routers such as Ciscos newer Integrated Services Routers. Cisco at Interop on May 1 will introduce three new add-ons for its 10-year-old aggregation routers that can help the routers better aggregate the new […]

With the increasing number of Web applications enterprises are adding for internal use and the continued centralization of servers, performance demands on application-delivery controllers are skyrocketing. Two vendors at Interop the week of May 1 will address that problem with new high-end hardware platforms. Citrix Systems on May 1 will launch its new Citrix NetScaler […]

Juniper Networks acquisitions in 2005 of Peribit Networks and Redline Networks signaled an intention to become a bigger player in the WAN optimization and application acceleration space. But the company has done little since to share with enterprise customers its vision for those technologies. That relative silence will end on May 1 at the Interop […]