Paula Musich

Cisco Systems on Feb. 28 outlined its vision for Scientific Atlanta a day after its mega-acquisition closed, but product integration roadmaps wont follow for another couple of months. In one of its largest acquisitions to date, Cisco is going after service providers who are ultimately building next-generation applications for the consumer market. The traditional enterprise […]

Startup Gigamon Systems is launching a new tool to address a relatively recent problem for IT: too many discrete monitoring tools and not enough network Switch Port Analyzer ports to plug them into. “It used to be that having enough SPAN [switch port analyzer] ports wasnt a problem. Now with voice-over-IP IDSes [Intrusion Detection Systems], […]

Cisco Systems has expanded its carrier access offerings by launching a new platform that could help service providers launch next-generation services. The Cisco ME 6524 Ethernet Switch is the second in Ciscos new line of Metro Ethernet switches. The switch is intended to let carriers leverage their fiber infrastructure to deliver new services such as […]

IBMs Tivoli unit late the week of Feb. 20 added four new management products to IBMs Express line of offerings for SMBs. The four products, which focus on security and storage management as well as provisioning and monitoring, were designed from the ground up to be simple to install and deploy. They provide management of […]

Hewlett-Packard on Feb. 27 will become the last of the big four enterprise management providers to announce its strategy for creating a common configuration management database scheme. At the first HP Software Forum Asia Pacific conference in Sydney, HPs OpenView unit will outline its strategy and roadmap for developing a federated approach to the CMDB, […]

F5 Networks Inc. on Feb. 27 will launch a new release of the WAN optimization appliances it acquired with Swan Labs last year with new Wide Area File Services capabilities. The Seattle company wasted no time in preparing a new release of the WANjet software acquired five months ago, bringing to F5 customers new support […]

Cisco Systems on Feb. 21 will expand its new carrier access offerings designed to help service providers create next-generation services when it launches a new Metro Ethernet and Metro Access platform. The new Cisco ME 6524 Series Ethernet Switch is the second platform in Ciscos new line of Metro Ethernet platforms. The switch is intended […]

Microsoft on Feb. 21 will release the public beta of its Systems Management Server 2003 Release 2 in a bid to make the software distribution and inventory tool more open to third-party applications. Microsoft in SMS 2003 R2 seeks to simplify SMSs inventory capability with a new tool for custom updates. It addresses the requirement […]

Nortel on Feb. 13 spun out its blade server switch business unit in a deal with private equity company Garnett & Helfrich Capital. The Menlo Park venture fund, which specializes in venture buyouts, gained a controlling interest in the venture, renamed Blade Network Technologies. Garnett & Helfrich has struck similar deals with Computer Associates International […]

Juniper Networks on Feb. 13 released a new version of the operating system for its WAN optimization/application acceleration appliances acquired last May along with Redline Networks. Juniper in DXOS Version 5.1 delivers initial integration with its existing SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) VPN appliances and routers and adds a streamlined, Web-based user interface. In the new […]