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The nascent but fast-growing application-performance optimization market got a vote of confidence from a major networking vendor on Monday when Juniper Networks announced its intent to acquire Peribit Networks and Redline Networks in two deals with a combined value of $469 million. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company agreed to acquire WAN-performance optimization provider Peribit Networks Inc. […]

Microsoft Corp. executives are set on challenging Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and others for supremacy in the enterprise management market, but their company faces a long, hard road to get there, according to users. At the Microsoft Management Summit conference here last week, Steve Ballmer, Microsofts CEO, said the company is committed to managing heterogeneous computing […]

After long shunning the multivendor management needs of the real world of heterogeneous computing, Microsoft Corp. at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas this week took its first initial management interoperability steps. But despite the fanfare of a demonstration during CEO Steve Ballmers keynote that showed MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager) monitoring a Sun/Solaris server, […]

When Microsoft launched its Dynamic Systems Initiative two years ago to improve the manageability of its products and the applications that run on its platforms, it talked about fuzzy architectural concepts for building manageability into programs from their initial creation. Two years later, at this years Microsoft Management Summit, officials highlighted the concrete steps that […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dropped the pretense Tuesday around the companys platform-management intentions: Rather than managing only its own platform, Microsoft wants to become one of the primary enterprise management providers. In his keynote address Tuesday at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas, Ballmer highlighted Microsofts commitment to helping customers better manage their IT […]

ScriptLogic Corp. on Monday picked up the security drumbeat for remote desktop administration when it released the latest version of its Desktop Authority user administration tool. The mature tool, now at release 6.5, brings new patch management functions in addition to new anti-spyware capabilities to the remote desktop configuration management software. “Were going after security […]

LAS VEGAS—On the two-year anniversary of the launch of its Dynamic Systems Initiative, Microsoft Corp. set out an aggressive road map for the next two years to take its manageability forward. Among the coming developments are new versions of both Microsoft Operations Manager and Systems Management Server. MOM Version 3, due in the next two […]

Cisco Systems Inc. last week unveiled a series of router enhancements that are aimed at giving service providers greater network flexibility, efficiency and manageability. In an effort to build momentum behind its IP NGN (Next-Generation Network) initiative, Cisco is extending its modular IOS (Internetwork Operating System) XR to its 12000 Series routers. The San Jose, […]

FullArmor Corp. last week rolled out a solution that helps extend the ability to create and enforce Microsoft Corp. Active Directory Group Policy settings to devices that are not connected to the directory. The Boston-based company added a new member to its Intellipolicy for Clients suite, called GPAnywhere, that allows administrators to create corporate policy […]

VMware Inc. last week released the next major version of its desktop virtualization software, which emphasizes making application developers and testers more productive. VMware Workstation 5, which allows users to build a library of virtual machines for Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris x86 that mimics production environments, was designed to provide greater flexibility to the […]

Managed Objects on Tuesday will weigh in on the configuration-management database issue when it launches its first Business Service Configuration Management offering. In the debate over whether a centralized database or federation of multiple data sources is more effective, the Tysons Corner, Va. company is opting for the federated approach. Its offering, which relies on […]

As part of a new breed of startups challenging the old-guard enterprise management providers, Cittio on Monday will launch the next major release of its data center monitoring and management tool. San Francisco-based Cittio Inc. enhanced its WatchTower network monitoring and operating management software by revamping the user interface, beefing up performance to scale to […]