Paula Musich

Packeteer and Cisco Systems—a pair of old-guard vendors in the traffic management space—are waking up to new opportunities around application acceleration and WAN optimization. A week after Cisco released its multifunction ACE (Application Control Engine) module, Packeteer will launch on April 17 a new release of software for its PacketShaper appliance that accelerates applications that […]

Enterasys Networks will jump into the network access control fray early in May at Interop when it launches what officials claim is the first federated NAC offering. Enterasys, a networking hardware and network-based security provider, will introduce its new Sentinel family of agentless NAC products on May 1 in Las Vegas. The line is unique […]

CA hit the acquisition trail again April 13 to pick up automated job scheduling provider Cybermation for $75 million. Although the Islandia, N.Y., company is already a leading supplier of job scheduling automation tools for more batch-oriented jobs, Cybermation complements that with event-driven job scheduling. “Cybermation is a pioneer in event-driven automation,” said Ray Nissan, […]

Four vendors in the emerging market for enterprise-wide configuration management databases joined together to launch an effort to create a common specification for sharing configuration information across a federation of data sources. The four—BMC Software, IBM/Tivoli, Hewlett Packard and Fujitsu—announced April 11 their effort to create the specification and submit it to an appropriate standards […]

Everybody talks a good game when it comes to service-level management. But how many enterprises and service providers perform true service-level management? Heres one answer: The market spent almost $1.4 billion on service-level management products in 2005, according to the first market sizing report on service-level management. Enterprise Management Associates in early April released its […]

With support for an array of multivendor networking devices under its belt, network change and configuration management provider AlterPoint turned its attention to integrating its Device Authority tool with existing customer network and systems management platforms. The Austin, Texas, company on April 10 released Device Authority V. 4.5 with a new software development kit that […]

It can take Michael Tardif days to get his infrastructure ready to deploy a new application. Tardif, vice president and general manager of global hosting services for Savvis, a leading global IT utility services provider, often has to coordinate multiple teams within his staff to prepare the infrastructure for the introduction of the application. “There […]

Configuresoft will add to the compliance drumbeat on April 10 when it launches the next major release of its Enterprise Configuration Manager software for managing desktop and server configurations. ECM Version 4.8, aimed at large enterprises, adds a range of new features that allow companies to continually comply with internal policies and regulatory requirements. The […]

Although some IT shops find it hard to justify and get the funding to implement one monitoring and management tool for systems and applications, some high-transaction volume shops require redundant monitoring systems. To meet the requirements of those very large shops, eG Innovations is preparing to launch a new eG Redundant Manager Cluster. The new […]

Most large enterprises have the instrumentation for measuring the performance of networks and systems. But Netuitive, a real-time Business Service Management analysis software provider, plans to help customers take that up a notch to correlate business performance metrics with infrastructure performance metrics. The Reston, Va., company will soon launch its Netuitive Integration Studio, which will […]

IBM late last week quietly celebrated the 10th anniversary of its acquisition of Tivoli Systems, marking a 10-year roller coaster ride in the network and systems management market. Although IBM in the early years made significant profit on its $743 million acquisition, it struggled with internal integration headaches along with even bigger customer integration headaches […]

The worldwide market for application acceleration technology grew to $1.2 billion in 2005, a 36 percent spike over 2004, according to Gartner in a new report issued April 3. The market is made up of application delivery controllers and WAN optimization controllers, although application delivery controllers made up a larger share of the overall market, […]