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FullArmor Corp. on Tuesday launched a new Web services tool that extends Active Directory Group Policy security benefits to machines not connected to the directory. The new PolicyPortal provides a centralized way to manage ADs Group Policy on any machine connected to the Internet. Those could include kiosks, point-of-sale machines, traveling or home clients as […]

BEA Systems Inc. and Mercury Interactive Corp. on Thursday announced that they have inked a partnership that calls for BEA to bundle Mercurys diagnostic tools with the latest releases of BEAs WebLogic Web application server and JRockit Java virtual machine. The aim of the alliance is to give developers and QA testers a leg up […]

Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday will launch a new suite of network management tools that marks Ciscos first attempt at providing multivendor network management. The new Network Application Performance Analysis suite, composed of tools and services, is aimed at helping network operators optimize the performance of the network to meet the requirements of both planned […]

nLayers Inc. ratcheted up the competition in the application discovery and mapping arena on Monday at the Gartner Data Center Conference with the latest release of its InSight software. With its new InSight Release 4.5, the San Jose, Calif., company sought to provide one of the broadest as well as most detailed discovery capabilities in […]

Novell Inc. on Monday launched Version 3 of its Identity Manager, which seeks to strike a balance between automation and ease of use in managing identity-based security. Novell Identity Manager 3 adds a new user portal that gives end users greater access to identity data and provides visual mapping of relationships. “Sometimes it can be […]

IBM Corp. will reach another milestone in its autonomic computing drive on Friday when it makes three automated management offerings generally available. The new Tivoli offerings that enable automated monitoring and self-healing of systems and applications are intended to help reduce the complexity of IT environments and reduce the amount of manual labor that has […]

AmberPoint Inc. on Monday will launch the latest release of its namesake SOA application-management software that addresses the growing complexity and increasing maturity of service-oriented architecture implementations. Release 5.0 of the AmberPoint SOA runtime governance software—AmberPoints biggest release to date—recognizes that as more and more services are added, it becomes too complicated to manage each […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday announced that the head of its software business unit will resign. Nora Denzel, senior vice president and general manager of HPs Software Global Business, will resign as of Dec. 9 for “personal reasons,” a company spokesperson said. HP named OpenView General Manager Todd DeLaughter as interim GM for the Software Global […]

Hewlett Packard Co. on Tuesday morning announced a new portfolio of utility computing services designed to address a range of customer requirements. HP tried to set itself apart from rival Sun Microsystems and its Sun Grid utility computing service by giving customers a choice of server platforms and operating systems in the new HP Flexible […]

/zimages/2/120801.jpg CA, the company formerly known as Computer Associates International Inc., formally launched its Enterprise IT Management initiative at CA World in Las Vegas earlier this month. This bet-the-business initiative included the rollout of some 26 enhanced Unicenter offerings that exploit CAs common services integration platform, as well as three new products. /zimages/2/28571.gifRead more here […]