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LAS VEGAS—Cisco Systems CTO Charlie Giancarlo played technology visionary to CEO John Chambers economic seer in his keynote address at Networkers, the companys annual user conference. Giancarlo described for the audience of networking engineers and operators the architecture and strategy Cisco is pursuing as it seeks to move its influence higher up the ISO 7 […]

Hewlett-Packard Co.s procurve networking unit and 3Com Corp. are vying for the attention of enterprise network operators, as both organizations launch a range of new switches and software enhancements designed to make their offerings more useful in enterprise environments. Both vendors—relative outsiders for many large enterprises—continued their assault on well-established enterprise players such as Cisco […]

EMC Corp. this week will seek to convince network services providers that it understands their key problems when it launches the next generations of its acquired Smarts MPLS Manager. In its first Smarts product debut since acquiring management software provider System Management Arts Inc. earlier this year, the Hopkinton, Mass., company will add greater granularity […]

Computer Associates International Inc., on the heels of completing its Concord Communications Inc. acquisition, announced its plan to acquire project portfolio management provider Niku for about $350 million on Thursday. The Niku acquisition is expected to bring a greater level of control over the direction of Nikus Clarity IT-MG suite of IT governance software, which […]

3Com Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co.s ProCurve networking unit dueled earlier this week over the attention of enterprise network operators when both launched a range of new switches and software enhancements designed to make their offerings better corporate network citizens. Both vendors—relative outsiders for many large enterprise networks—continued their assault on the market share of well-established […]

A new startup hopes to squeeze into the crowded market for network discovery and mapping with a proprietary technology that overcomes limitations of existing techniques. Insightix Ltd. last week launched its DID (Dynamic Infrastructure Discovery) technology, which officials claim can detect and identify the 10 to 40 percent of elements that other passive or dynamic […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. at its HP Software Forum in Denver next week will address two hot topics with new offerings that provide compliance management and full life-cycle management for service-oriented architectures. HPs OpenView SOA Manager takes a holistic approach to managing SOA environments by going beyond Web services transaction management to managing loosely coupled services, their […]

Automated IP address management has been used for years to streamline the administration of IP addresses, but one small company and a couple of its customers have discovered a new use for the tool: to create an extra layer of endpoint security and access control. MetaInfo, a spinoff of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., is […]

Desktop administration tool provider FullArmor Corp. next week will further extend the features of Microsoft Corp.s Active Directorys Group Policy function to reduce security vulnerabilities. The latest release of IntelliPolicy for Clients fills a security gap in Active Directorys Group Policy by extending it to provide more granular application privileges than Group Policys basic local […]

Cisco on Thursday picked up its own application front end technology provider with an agreement to acquire FineGround Networks Inc. for $70 million. Cisco Systems Inc.s acquisition announcement follows by several weeks rival Juniper Networks Inc.s announced intent to acquire FineGround rival Peribit Networks Inc. and Redline Networks Inc. for $469 million. FineGround Networks, a […]

Computer Associates may have put the SEC investigation behind it, but it is not yet out of the woods if its fourth fiscal 2005 quarter is any indication. The Islandia, N.Y., software giant on Thursday afternoon reported a 40 percent drop in earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2005 down to 3 cents a […]

Desktop administration tool provider Full Armor Corp. next week will further extend the features of Microsoft Corp.s Active Directory Group Policy function to reduce security vulnerabilities. The latest release of IntelliPolicy for Clients fills a security gap in Active Directorys Group Policy by extending it to provide more granular application privileges than Group Policys basic […]