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Application virtualization provider Softricity on Feb. 3 introduced a version of its SoftGrid desktop virtualization software that is integrated with Microsofts Systems Management Server. The new SoftGrid for Microsoft SMS exploits SMSs software distribution infrastructure to deploy, but not install, virtual applications on targeted end points. “Previously, customers used our grid console to manage their […]

3Com Corp. on Feb. 2 announced it has bought controlling interest of its joint Chinese venture with Huawei Technologies. 3Com bought the 2 percent it needed to gain 51 percent control over Huawei-3Com Ltd. (H-3C) joint venture for $28 million, giving it governance rights and control over the board of directors. “The management team at […]

BMC Software on Feb. 13 will introduce a new end-to-end transaction management initiative intended to make managing transactions across a company easier. The new offerings in the initiative, which will be rolled out over the next year, will combine transaction data, end-user experience and infrastructure monitoring to improve business service delivery by reducing the time […]

Four-year-old startup Persystent Technologies on Monday will introduce a new support tool for desktop management, designed to automatically repair day-to-day damage. The company is encouraging desktop administrators to beat a path to its door for its a unique, policy-based approach to maintaining stable and healthy operating environments for end users. The tool allows IT operators […]

Predicting the impact that new applications will have on a production network and determining how well those applications will perform on those networks before they are deployed has been a long-standing problem for IT. Shunra Software Ltd. hopes to change that. The New York company will introduce a major new release of its Shunra Virtual […]

New products from a pair of WAN optimization vendors could be the beginning of a movement by vendors to offer enterprise-level WAN optimization and application acceleration products to support road warriors and teleworkers. To date, appliances designed to boost the performance of centralized Web applications and consolidated file servers and storage have focused on serving […]

F5 Networks on Monday continued its leapfrog game with competitors in the application delivery arena when it introduced a new 10G-bps hardware platform, a next-generation global link controller, and support for monitoring and managing traffic from loosely coupled Web services applications. F5s news, coming on the heels of competitor Foundry Networks launch of its next-generation […]

The open-source community will see yet another offering in the systems management arena when Qlusters Inc. introduces its OpenQRM project. The Palo Alto, Calif. company opted to take its server management automation platform to the open-source community to fill a void that executives saw in the market for an open-source server automation tool. “There is […]

In the culmination of a two-and-a-half-year development effort, CA on Monday will launch its new CA Asset Management suite, which exploits the companys common services platform and Management Database to improve control and accountability of IT assets. The suite, part of the continuing Unicenter R11 product rollout, delivers the highest level of integration yet across […]

On the heels of Orbital Datas early foray into WAN optimization and application acceleration for individual desktops, Tacit Networks on Tuesday took its own stab at extending the technology to small office and home office users. Drawing on its history as a WAFS (wide-area file services) company, Tacit Networks will include different functionality with its […]

Orbital Data on Monday became one of the first WAN optimization and application acceleration providers to extend the benefits of those functions to individual end users. The San Mateo, Calif., company launched a new Windows-based client for its lineup of symmetric WAN offerings, providing a performance boost for mobile workers and SOHO (small office/home office) […]

A new networking industry alliance, formed last week, is working to promote the spread of the ubiquitous IEEE 802 Ethernet standard technologies. The Ethernet Alliance, made up of 18 founding members, intends to act as a clearinghouse of vendor-neutral information on the application of IEEE 802 Ethernet technologies, promote established and nascent Ethernet technologies through […]