Paula Musich

Startup Apere hopes to carve out a place in the midsize enterprise with a unique security appliance that melds identity management with access control. The Identity Managed Access Gateway takes the labor out of creating firewall policies by automatically discovering identity management information that already exists in the network and in applications and then creating […]

Hewlett Packard on July 25 advanced the consolidation trend in the management software space when it announced its plans to acquire Mercury Interactive for $4.5 billion in cash. The acquisition, rumored for months, will allow HP to combine its OpenView enterprise management software business with Mercury Interactives market leading application development testing tools and applications […]

BMC Software on July 17 turned its attention to data center optimization when it launched updated releases of several acquired tools now integrated with each other. BMC, which is based in Houston, updated BMC Virtualizer 2.5, BMC Performance Assurance 7.3 and added new workflow integrations in existing BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database, BMC Discovery, BMC […]

Foundry Networks on July 17 will try to raise the bar on voice-over-IP-ready network switches when it debuts its third generation of chassis switches built for VOIP and wireless traffic. Foundry is claiming the highest Power over Ethernet density in its new FastIron SX 800 and FastIron SX 1600 8- and 16-slot switches. The FastIron […]

Juniper Networks will straddle the carrier and large enterprise router markets with the launch on July 17 of a new 10 Gigabit Ethernet-capable multiservice edge router. For large enterprises and data centers, the new Juniper M120 router can serve as a WAN gateway linking multiple sites across different carrier networks or the Internet. The router […]

Opsware on July 11 put the final piece of the data center automation puzzle into place when it announced its intent to acquire storage management startup Creekpath Systems for $10 million in cash. Opsware intends to move quickly to integrate Creekpaths storage management technology, once the acquisition closes in the August time frame, to bring […]

Blue Coat Systems on July 10 launched a new release of its WAN optimization/application acceleration software that fills in a missing piece of the quality of service puzzle. Blue Coat, the content distribution network company formerly known as Cache Flow, linked the knowledge in its MACH 5 software about applications traffic traversing a network with […]

A startup is looking to make Web conferences more accessible to more people through a greater range of devices. TalkShoe, a small company in Pittsburgh, has created a Web service that allows users to create and join real-time voice conferences that can be extended to thousands of participants using cell phones, regular telephones or VOIP […]

Telephony pioneer Inter-Tel will release a next-generation voice over IP switch in August aimed at 21st century applications. The 27-year-old company, which focuses on the telecom needs of SMBs (small and midsize businesses), developed a new Session Initiation Protocol softswitch aimed at midsize enterprises as well as the lower end of large enterprises. The new […]

Cisco Systems on June 20 extended its wireless reach into new mobility services and for the first time integrated its WLAN technology into a stackable form factor. The Catalyst 3750G “has a wireless LAN controller baked into the switch,” said Alan Cohen, senior director of mobility solutions at Cisco, based in San Jose, Calif. The […]