Paula Musich

Although some IT shops find it hard to justify and get the funding to implement one monitoring and management tool for systems and applications, some high-transaction volume shops require redundant monitoring systems. To meet the requirements of those very large shops, eG Innovations is preparing to launch a new eG Redundant Manager Cluster. The new […]

Most large enterprises have the instrumentation for measuring the performance of networks and systems. But Netuitive, a real-time Business Service Management analysis software provider, plans to help customers take that up a notch to correlate business performance metrics with infrastructure performance metrics. The Reston, Va., company will soon launch its Netuitive Integration Studio, which will […]

IBM late last week quietly celebrated the 10th anniversary of its acquisition of Tivoli Systems, marking a 10-year roller coaster ride in the network and systems management market. Although IBM in the early years made significant profit on its $743 million acquisition, it struggled with internal integration headaches along with even bigger customer integration headaches […]

The worldwide market for application acceleration technology grew to $1.2 billion in 2005, a 36 percent spike over 2004, according to Gartner in a new report issued April 3. The market is made up of application delivery controllers and WAN optimization controllers, although application delivery controllers made up a larger share of the overall market, […]

Configuresoft will add to the compliance drumbeat on April 10 when it launches the next major release of its Enterprise Configuration Manager software for managing desktop and server configurations. ECM version 4.8, aimed at enterprises trying to get a handle on the policy and regulatory compliance of large populations of desktops and servers, adds a […]

The problem with first-generation Web application firewalls is that they require users to make a variety of changes to existing networks. Imperva plans to change all that with the latest version of its SecureSphere Dynamic Profiling Firewall. The new application firewall, deployed on Imperva security appliances, now supports four different deployment modes to “make it […]

Getting a real-time view of traffic as it traverses the network to better troubleshoot problems and plan for growth has always been a difficult task. Packet Design on March 27 made it a little easier with a new set of appliances that can provide that end-to-end visibility from source to destination even as the paths […]

BMC Softwares planned acquisition of Identify Software is expected to give BMCs fledgling transaction management initiative a big leg up in helping its IT customers to quickly locate, diagnose and resolve application transaction problems. The proposed $150 million acquisition, announced on March 27, brings to BMCs initiative the ability to capture all details of a […]

InteQ on March 27 will launch what it claims is the first on-demand service to offload implementation and operation of HP OpenView network and systems management software. Given the high failure rates for achieving return on investment for NSM (network and system management) tools like OpenView Network Node Manager, InteQ is applying its expertise to […]

In an attempt to seed the market for its brand of software virtualization, Altiris on March 23 made a personal use version of its new Software Virtualization Solution available for free. The offering, which Altiris released to the market for general availability on March 23, was designed to streamline the software testing process and help […]