Paula Musich

Foundry Networks will sing a convergence tune at Interop as it prepares to release new switch products that support voice over IP and wireless. To help network managers prepare for a second wave of POE (Power over Ethernet) requirements driven by the forthcoming IEEE 802.11n wireless standard and IP cameras for video surveillance, Foundry on […]

As Congress debates the merits of having a two-tiered Internet, one telecommunications industry group is looking to advance the ability to move premium content across different network boundaries. The IPSphere Forum—which includes equipment suppliers, service providers, application vendors and software companies—is creating the technical underpinnings to allow end-user applications to automatically request the level of […]

Acquisition-happy Avocent on April 27 announced its latest planned catch: longtime desktop administration tools provider LANDesk Group, to the tune of about $416 million. The Huntsville, Ala.,-based KVM switching provider, which has bought some eight companies in the last three years, plans to boost its ability to offer a more complete line of systems and […]

SAN DIEGO—Microsoft on April 26 as part of its Dynamic Systems Initiative announced that it has acquired a privately held company that provides an applications asset and license management tool. The relatively unknown Assetmetrix, which Microsoft acquired for an undisclosed sum, provides an inventory tool that can discover and catalog a large library of different […]

Cisco Systems and Microsoft are teaming up to help small and midsize businesses to overcome the obstacles of customer relationship management deployments with the launch on April 25 of a new release of the Cisco Unified CRM Connector. Version 3.0 of the Connector, which integrates Cisco Unified Communications VOIP (voice over IP) products with Microsofts […]

San Diego, Calif.—Microsofts Bob Muglia in his keynote speech at the Microsoft Management Summit opened the kimono on a couple of new developments in its Dynamic Systems Initiative. Microsoft is working to expand its Systems Center management umbrella with a new Systems Center Service Desk offering intended to streamline IT service management for Windows environments. […]

Apparent Networks is the latest in a long line of network and systems management vendors talking a good game about how they can help administrators manage proactively. The difference this time? Apparent Networks may actually be able to deliver, said Jimmy Brown, vice president of network services for Dallas-based outsourcer Affiliated Computer Services. Brown is […]

Microsoft this week at its Microsoft Management Summit will try to demonstrate concrete progress toward the broad goals it set out for its Dynamic Systems Initiative. Microsofts message to attendees this year will be managing complexity to achieve agility, according to Felicity McGourty, director of the Windows Enterprise Management Division in Redmond, Wash. “We want […]

Radware on April 24 will up the performance ante in the application-delivery controller space when it introduces its next-generation hardware platform. The new AS5 platform, based on Radwares three-tiered application delivery architecture, boasts some of the fastest speeds and deepest port density in the market, according to Michelle Blank, chief marketing officer at the companys […]

BigFix will continue the drumbeat of convergence for administrative and security management functions on April 24 when it releases the latest release of its Big Fix Enterprise Suite. The security configuration management provider, which claims that its software manages 5.2 million PCs, servers and mobile devices, brought new software distribution and asset management functions into […]