Paula Musich

Juniper Networks confirmed Jan. 25 that it is phasing out over the next six months its DX line of data center-scale application acceleration appliances that it acquired two years ago with the buyout of Redline Networks. News about the DX phase-out comes as Juniper prepares to launch on Jan. 29 its first foray into the […]

ConSentry Networks on Jan. will borrow a page from Enterasys Networks when it launches its approach to integrating security with LAN switching. While Enterasys has marketed LAN switches for years that integrate security functions into the core switching fabric, security upstart ConSentry believes it has taken the right approach with the new Intelligent Switching architecture […]

Open-source management tools provider Hyperic is preparing a new release of its Hyperic HQ Web applications management software that adds new integration with the Nagios management and cross-platform diagnostics. The four-year-old company matured its Web application infrastructure management software, which monitors the availability and performance of all of the elements that make up multitiered Web […]

Managing myriad application configuration changes in large-scale, multi-tiered application environments can be a nightmare when done manually or with homegrown scripts. Application configuration management provider mValent on Jan. 22 sought to address that complexity with the latest release of Integrity, the company’s automated application provisioning tool. Integrity v5 can automatically provision configuration settings for multiple […]

Avaya on Jan. 21 delivered on its promise to more broadly support the open standards Session Initiation Protocol when it launched a range of voice over IP and contact center upgrades featuring end-to-end SIP support. Avaya in its flagship Communications Manager IP PBX software delivered end-to-end SIP support, adding new endpoint support for using the […]

Cisco Systems is launching the next set of deliverables in its Data Center 3.0 strategy, this time focusing on application acceleration and delivery. Cisco on Jan. 22 turned up the heat in the competitive application acceleration and delivery networking market with its first application acceleration client, a new application delivery controller, new application profiling services […]

A year after launching its Open Services Networking strategy, 3Com on Jan. 21 will introduce a new Multi-Service Routing platform to support the initiative along with new OSN partners adding more services. It seems 3Com’s initiative to open its routing platform to third parties to add more services is part of a growing trend among […]

IT operations management provider Integrien has ratcheted up the sophisticated analysis of its Alive tool in a release to be launched Jan. 22 that can help predict and head off impending outages or performance problems. The analytics in the intelligent systems management software allow the tool to learn normal behavior in activity across an n-tiered […]

Blue Coat Systems hopes to capitalize on the growing interest in WAN optimization software for road warriors and remote workers with the Jan. 14 introduction of a client that combines application acceleration with security. Blue Coat’s new ProxyClient follows the first iteration of its WAN optimization software for laptops with added Web filtering as well […]

Imagine being a high-level executive trying to close a huge deal after hours from home using high definition video conferencing and your so-called high speed Internet connection, only to find congestion on the link makes communications impossible. Or imagine finding that your formerly reliable broadband Internet connection frequently slows down to the point that you […]

Apparent Networks on Jan. 14 hopes to move beyond being a diagnostics tool provider for network engineers into a more real-time network application performance monitoring provider with a major new upgrade to its flagship AppCritical software. With AppCritical version 3.3, Apparent Networks revamped the tool to appeal to more midsize and large enterprises with a […]

As Cisco Systems continues to push further into the data center, CEO John Chambers is looking to make Cisco a strategic partner to large IT customers there. At Cisco’s annual C-Scape industry analyst conference in December, Chambers went so far as to declare Cisco’s intent to be a leader not just in the networking and […]