Paula Musich

Force10 Networks Inc. later this month will roll out its first fixed-configuration switch, a move that the high-end network switch company believes will help it extend beyond its traditional place in the network core and begin to push into the data center market. The Force10 S50 switch, which was launched last week, provides 48 Gigabit […]

Although Hewlett-Packard Co.s newly minted CEO said he plans no major changes any time soon, industry observers say Mark Hurd has little time to waste in reshaping parts of the struggling company. “There is a short list of things he has to address immediately: what happens to the enterprise server business, the enterprise services business […]

The recently formed Application Performance Index Alliance, dedicated to creating a single number to measure application performance, gained some momentum Thursday when it announced that Keynote Systems Inc. and Akamai Technologies Inc. have joined the group. The Apdex Alliance, formally launched early in March, was created to develop and promote a single ranking for application […]

Juniper Networks on Tuesday made its first foray into the burgeoning voice-over-IP space when it announced a deal to acquire Kagoor for $67.5 million. Tiny Kagoor Networks brings to the table key session border-control functions required for carriers and telecommunications companies to cost-effectively roll out VOIP services. It also brings to Juniper Networks Inc. significant […]

Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday confirmed that it has tapped NCR CEO Mark Hurd to take over as its president and CEO, replacing the ousted Carly Fiorina. But his quick assignment, for many observers, raises more questions than it answers—especially around HPs services and software business. “There is a short list of things he has to address […]

Application acceleration provider HyperSpace Communications last week agreed to acquire MPC Computers in a deal valued at about $16 million. The smaller software company is acquiring MPC from its current owner, Gores Technology Group, which acquired MPC from Micron Technology four years ago. MPC has 800 employees and makes some 50,000 PCs, laptops, desktops and […]

Fidelia Technology Inc. is adding automatic application discovery capabilities to its integrated performance, fault and business service monitoring software. NetVigil 3.6 extends Fidelias business container technology, which stores the relationship of components that make up a business service by adding analysis of the underlying relationships among business service components. Such analysis reduces the number of […]

Compuware and IBM last week announced a settlement to their intellectual property and antitrust litigation that calls for IBM to license $140 million in Compuware software and buy $260 million worth of Compuware professional services over the next four years. The agreement, which brings to an end a federal trial that began in early February, […]

High-end network switch vendor Force10 Networks Inc. hopes to move beyond the network core and into the data center with its first fixed-configuration switch. The Force10 S50 switch, which will be launched Monday, provides 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports operating at line rate and two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Force10 brings to the switch its corelike […]

Compuware Corp. and IBM on Monday announced a settlement to their intellectual property and anti-trust litigation that calls for IBM to license $140 million in Compuware software and buy $260 million worth of Compuware professional services over the next four years. The agreement, which brings to an end a federal trial that began in early […]

Network General on Tuesday continued trying to build momentum from its spinoff from Network Associates Technology Inc. with a new release of its Sniffer Portable protocol analyzer. Sniffer Portable 4.8, a software-only analyzer typically used on Windows-based laptops, adds real-time protocol decodes, allowing users to “see details of captured data in real time for quicker […]

Growing interest in application discovery and dependency mapping has a handful of startups working to improve the technology with better integration and scalability. nLayers Inc. last week announced improvements in its InSight appliance, including automatic application and infrastructure discovery. InSight 3.0 can map dependencies in real time and can discover 400 servers per minute, according […]