Paula Musich

Even in the most sophisticated network operations groups, knowing whether a proposed change to a router or firewall configuration will have its intended effect without breaking something else is still little more than educated guesswork. Next week, security risk assessment vendor Skybox Security Inc. hopes to convince network engineers that it can take much of […]

BMC Software Inc. this week at VMworld in Las Vegas will finally weigh in as a late entrant in the virtualization race with a full range of automated provisioning and control offerings. Houston-based BMC will take a vendor-agnostic stance in its Service-Oriented Resource Management initiative for provisioning and managing virtual servers from VMware Inc., Microsoft […]

Citrix Systems Inc. last week announced a new version of its NetScaler application delivery product geared specifically for small and midsize enterprises and launched a new release of its Citrix Access Gateway SSL VPN offering, acquired late last year with Net6 Inc. Both offerings, announced at Citrixs iForum Global user conference, are part of the […]

EMC Corp. this week will lay the groundwork for its bid to take a stronger role in managing applications through its System Management ARTS Inc. acquisition when it launches its first application-oriented management offering. The EMC Smarts division will introduce a new version of its Application Connectivity Monitor that can automatically discover TCP-based applications and […]

Cisco Systems Inc. last week made its biggest play yet in the application acceleration/WAN optimization market with the launch of new offerings for the branch office and data center and the formation of a new business unit. Cisco, four months after its acquisition of FineGround Networks Inc., created the Application Delivery Business Unit, headed by […]

Cisco Systems Inc. on Thursday will make its biggest play yet in the application acceleration/WAN optimization space with the launch of new offerings for the branch office and data center and the formation of a new business unit. Cisco, four months after its acquisition of Fineground Networks Inc. in June, created the new Application Networking […]

When it comes to lean it operations, the it operations group at Rockwell Automations Power Systems division just may give new meaning to the term. Rockwell Automation Inc. markets industrial automation power, control and information systems designed to help customers boost their manufacturing productivity. While most businesses of Rockwell Automations type fund IT operations at […]

Mercury Interactive Corp. plans to debut this week a broad set of integrated application testing, change and performance management software that straddles the development and operations sides of IT. The Mercury BTO Enterprise suite, to be unveiled at the companys user conference in Las Vegas, represents Mercurys biggest product development investment ever. The suite integrates […]

Network Physics Inc., originally a WAN optimization/application acceleration provider, spent so much time proving to customers that its products worked that it discovered a new niche for itself: helping IT shops decide which vendors products worked best to solve their performance problems. This week, the Mountain View, Calif., company will build on that idea by […]

Citrix Systems Inc. at its iForum Global 2005 user conference on Monday polished up a pair of recent acquisitions in the application acceleration and security space. Citrix announced a new version of the NetScaler application delivery product, acquired in June, that is geared specifically for small- and midsize enterprises. The company also launched a new […]