Paula Musich

WAN optimization provider Blue Coat Systems on March 20 updated the software for its appliances that broadens the range of performance techniques and applications that can be accelerated. Blue Coat, formerly know as content distribution network provider Cache Flow, launched its MACH 5 software release, adding new bandwidth management, protocol optimizations, object caching, byte caching […]

CA on March 20 brought three of its desktop and server administration tools under the Unicenter R11 umbrella to provide an integrated tool set that shares a common architecture and agent. The new CA Desktop and Server Management R11 offering combines asset management, electronic software delivery and remote control into a single product that exploits […]

Cisco Systems opened the kimono at its Partner Summit meeting in San Diego March 16 to give channel partners a peak at new video conferencing technology that aims to transcend the problems of existing systems. CEO John Chambers in his keynote address told attendees that a forthcoming “telepresence” system, due out within a year, can […]

Dell on March 15 for the first time will bring integrated hardware and software configuration management to its OpenManage Client Administrator in a new release. Users working with the lightweight software configuration management tool no longer need to work with separate, multiple Dell utilities to manage desktop hardware and software. OpenManage Client Administrator 3.0 integrates […]

Symantec on March 14 will show desktop administrators how to teach an old dog new tricks when it launches the next major release of its 20-year-old remote control software, PCAnywhere. Along with version 12.0 of the widely used remote desktop management software, which emphasizes simpler connectivity and greater scalability, the Cupertino, Calif. company will also […]

Software virtualization vendor Softricity has pitched its SoftGrid platform and ZeroTouch offering as a means to lower the cost of deploying and updating applications on the desktop. On March 13 it plans to prove those claims when it releases a new calculator designed to show how the tool can reduce total cost of ownership. The […]

Voice over IP; mobile applications for handheld devices; and complex, n-tiered rich media applications all share one thing: Theyre part of the new frontier of Web 2.0. Keynote Systems will venture into those uncharted territories to help users map out the performance and quality of new Internet applications. Keynote Systems on March 8 updated its […]

Singlestep Technologies Corp. on March 9 will advance its aim of being the Switzerland of the enterprise management data world when it launches its Singlestep Unity Data Exchange Manager. The new offering, which is the foundation for Singlesteps event management offering—now called Unity Availability Manager—gathers and normalizes event and other network management data from a […]

With mobile applications finally coming of age and voice over IP taking off, understanding the performance of such applications from the end user perspective has never been more important. Keynote Systems Inc., the leading performance and availability monitoring service for Web applications, will step up to the plate over the next several weeks with new […]

NetDevices on March 6 extended its Branch Office Box, multifunction service gateway to smaller offices when it rolled out a new four-port version of the device. The BOB, or Branch in a Box, device combines wide area network access, routing, security, voice over IP and other functions in an appliance designed specifically for those functions. […]