Paula Musich

With a new migration bundle of hardware, software and services, Dell Inc. is taking aim at the large number of procrastinators now facing the end of support for Microsoft Corp.s Exchange 5.5. “People havent moved because its hard and it costs money,” said Leslie Sobon, director of global alliances at Dell, in Round Rock, Texas. […]

WAN optimization vendor Expand Networks Inc., following the trend of melding application-performance optimization techniques in a single offering, next month will add support for moving WAFS and CIFS traffic across WAN links. The wide-area file services and Common Internet File System support, which Expand addresses with new appliances that can accommodate hard disks for disk-based […]

Startup Netuitive Inc. is looking to provide the business service management glue for enterprises struggling to determine the impact of IT infrastructure problems on business processes. The companys new Netuitive Service Analyzer is intended to bridge the gap between user-experience monitoring and systems/applications monitoring to correlate whats happening on the infrastructure side and show IT […]

CA announced Wednesday that it is cutting 800 jobs as part of a restructuring effort, and at the same time reported an 8 percent revenue rise to $920 million and earnings per share of 15 cents for its first fiscal quarter of 2006. The 5 percent workforce reduction, which will cut jobs worldwide, is intended […]

Cisco on Tuesday announced its intent to acquire service provider-focused network management provider Sheer Networks for $97 million. The privately held Sheer Networks Inc., based in San Jose, Calif. is expected to provide Cisco Systems Inc. with a framework for creating multivendor network management applications designed to take the cost out of operating next-generation service […]

As interest in the technology continues to heat up, application acceleration/WAN optimization vendors are launching new wares that boost performance, deliver new encryption capabilities and expand the range of applications that can be improved. Swan Labs Corp. and Riverbed Technology Inc. are among the remaining independent players in a $960 million annual market, which has […]

IBM Global Services chief John R. Joyce, on the heels of upbeat earnings news for the services behemoth, left IBM today for a new career at venture capital firm Silver Lake Partners. With his “retirement” effective immediately, IBM made three executive appointments to lead the $46.5 billion services organization. IBM promoted Mike Daniels to senior […]

“Rather than building a traditional hospital and then trying to retrofit it, we thought wed just bite the bullet and do it from the beginning,” said Dr. Robert Kipperman, one of the Oklahoma City hospitals founders. With the help of a consultant, the founders chose an electronic medical records system that best fit the hospitals […]

Startup NetDevices Inc. late last month became the first vendor to release a multifunction communications device designed for centralized management, integrated functionality and high availability for branch offices. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company launched its SG-8 Unified Services Gateway, designed to unify services, reduce management complexity and optimize network performance. The device initially integrates a Layer […]

Pushing ahead with its autonomic computing initiative, IBM said portions of the technology are now ready for prime time, but users say there is still work to be done. IBM recently announced several new autonomic computing offerings, additions that show the technology is fit for enterprise use, company officials said; they point to consistent savings […]

IBM on Thursday declared it has reached a major milestone in its ongoing autonomic computing initiative with developments in four key areas: services, technology, standards creation and partner programs. IBM Global Services launched a pair of new services designed to help speed troubleshooting of IT infrastructure problems and to speed implementation of MySAP and the […]

Cisco Systems Inc. is making its most decisive move to date in its effort to grow beyond its roots as a hardware maker as it fleshes out its Application-Oriented Networking initiative aimed at moving into the upper reaches of the protocol stack. The AON effort marks Ciscos first bid to peer into and act on […]