Paula Musich

Storage giant EMC on June 7 acquired its second company in 26 days, snaring privately owned nLayers, which specializes in application discovery and mapping software. The move continues a trend toward consolidation in the application-dependency discovery and mapping space. EMCs acquisition follows Symantecs acquisition in February of nLayers rival Relicore, IBMs acquisition of Collation in […]

Akamai Technologies on June 12 will launch a new suite of services that address the dynamic nature of Web 2.0 rich media content. Recognizing that all Web sites are not cache-able—especially with the growing adoption of AJAX (Asynchronous Java Script and XML), the Cambridge, Mass., company added new techniques to accelerate more dynamic sites. “With […]

Avaya borrowed a page from cell phone makers playbook on June 8 when it launched the latest additions to its line of one-X IP phones. The new Avaya one-X Deskphone Edition is designed to mimic the ease of navigation that cell phones provide as well as offer lots of choices to different types of users. […]

As enterprise IT shops struggle with configuration and compliance reporting on increasingly complex application infrastructures, more and more are turning to automation tools to help ease the burden. Three-year-old startup mValent on June 5 will seek to help solve the configuration complexity issue with the latest release of its Integrity change and configuration management software. […]

Storage giant EMC June 7 acquired its second company in 26 days, snaring privately owned nLayers Inc. and adding to the consolidation in the application dependency discovery and mapping space. The deal was announced by EMC CEO Joe Tucci at an analysts conference in New York. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. EMCs […]

Cisco Systems at the Globalcomm conference on June 5 planted a flag in the fertile service provider ground in its aim to be the triple-play services enabler for telecommunications carriers. Cisco added new hardware and software enhancements aimed at the edge of service provider networks intended to better support the connected life of consumers. Among […]

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. […]