Paula Musich

Cisco Systems Inc. this week will launch a suite of network management tools that marks the companys first attempt at providing multivendor network management. The Network Application Performance Analysis suite, comprising both tools and services, is aimed at helping network operators optimize performance to meet the requirements of both planned and existing applications. The suite, […]

Adding voice onto an existing IP network is not the same as adding any other data application. Successful VOIP rollouts require careful planning, proper design and—in most cases—changes to the networking infrastructure to adequately support latency-sensitive voice traffic. But the first and most critical step that enterprises can take to ensure a successful voice-over-IP installation […]

Cisco Systems Inc. formally launched its latest advanced technology initiative—Application Networking Services—at its Worldwide Analyst Conference last week. One of a series of nine growth opportunities Cisco has identified to become $1 billion businesses within seven years, ANS represents Ciscos strategic alignment of various sales and marketing functions around optimizing and securing the delivery of […]

Coyote Point Systems Inc. will play David to Cisco Systems Inc.s Goliath at Interop in New York on Tuesday when it launches its next-generation Web application accelerator platform. On the heels of Ciscos Application Network Services strategy launch, Coyote will introduce its new Equalizer Extreme II appliance, which can handle up to 100,000 connections per […]

Alcatel hopes to squeeze into the tight WAN router market with a new family of low-cost routers aimed at small and midsize enterprises. As part of an Interop New York launch on Monday, Alcatel introduced four members of the OmniAccess 600 family, which was built to offer good performance and integrated security at a lower […]

Cisco Systems Inc. formally launched its next new advanced technology initiative at its worldwide analyst conference on Tuesday, when it outlined its new Application Network Services initiative. The ninth in a series of growth opportunities Cisco has identified to become $1 billion business opportunities within seven years, ANS represents Ciscos strategic alignment of various sales […]

FullArmor Corp. on Tuesday launched a new Web services tool that extends Active Directory Group Policy security benefits to machines not connected to the directory. The new PolicyPortal provides a centralized way to manage ADs Group Policy on any machine connected to the Internet. Those could include kiosks, point-of-sale machines, traveling or home clients as […]

BEA Systems Inc. and Mercury Interactive Corp. on Thursday announced that they have inked a partnership that calls for BEA to bundle Mercurys diagnostic tools with the latest releases of BEAs WebLogic Web application server and JRockit Java virtual machine. The aim of the alliance is to give developers and QA testers a leg up […]

Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday will launch a new suite of network management tools that marks Ciscos first attempt at providing multivendor network management. The new Network Application Performance Analysis suite, composed of tools and services, is aimed at helping network operators optimize the performance of the network to meet the requirements of both planned […]

nLayers Inc. ratcheted up the competition in the application discovery and mapping arena on Monday at the Gartner Data Center Conference with the latest release of its InSight software. With its new InSight Release 4.5, the San Jose, Calif., company sought to provide one of the broadest as well as most detailed discovery capabilities in […]

Novell Inc. on Monday launched Version 3 of its Identity Manager, which seeks to strike a balance between automation and ease of use in managing identity-based security. Novell Identity Manager 3 adds a new user portal that gives end users greater access to identity data and provides visual mapping of relationships. “Sometimes it can be […]

IBM Corp. will reach another milestone in its autonomic computing drive on Friday when it makes three automated management offerings generally available. The new Tivoli offerings that enable automated monitoring and self-healing of systems and applications are intended to help reduce the complexity of IT environments and reduce the amount of manual labor that has […]