Paula Musich

Altiris Inc. this week will bring the weight of its experience as a desktop management provider to application virtualization. Altiris new SVS (Software Virtualization Solution) is initially intended to streamline the software-testing process and help eliminate application conflicts when updates and patches are rolled out. SVS follows similar products from Softricity Inc. and AppStream Inc. […]

Hewlett-Packard Co.s ProCurve Networking unit last week filled in its Adaptive Edge Architecture strategy with the launch of its new ProCurve Interconnect Fabric Switch 8100fl, along with new security and mobile management products and a new power-over-Ethernet switch. The 8100fl line, based on the Riverstone Networks Inc. technology HP acquired last year, is an interconnect […]

Quest on Thursday at BEAWorld launched an upgraded, consolidated version of its PerformaSure and JProbe tools for managing J2EE application performance. The new and renamed Quest Application Assurance Solution for Java and Enterprise Portals, designed to link real end-user transactions to their performance impact on Java applications and Web portals, helps developers measure and optimize […]

Hewlett Packard Co.s ProCurve Networking unit on Monday continued to fill in its Adaptive Edge Architecture strategy with the launch of its new ProCurve InterConnect Fabric Switch 8100fl, along with new security and mobile management products and a new Power over Ethernet switch. The new 8100fl line, based on the Riverstone Networks technology HP acquired […]

As services used by service-oriented architecture applications are updated and changed to comply with new policies, theres been no way to accurately test those updates during predeployment testing against real services messages to ensure they function properly in a production environment. But Web services management provider AmberPoint Inc. plans to change that with its SOA […]

A startup hopes to challenge the old guard in the wide-area file services arena with a new technique for caching data that is more comprehensive and less prone to delivering stale data to remote users than existing technologies. Silver Peak Systems Inc. last week launched its new Network Memory technology, which stores data at the […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. continued its string of software acquisitions last week when it announced a pact to acquire asset management and IT service management provider Peregrine Systems Inc. for $425 million. Despite an accounting scandal and bankruptcy filing for Peregrine within the past few years, HP found that the San Diego company has put in place […]

Solidcore Systems Inc. this week will launch a new technology for monitoring and controlling changes to production servers, bringing order to the chaos surrounding server change management. Despite the discipline that change and configuration management tools can impose on managing server configurations, a continued lack of control over the process and procedures for change management […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. continued its string of software acquisitions on Monday when it announced a pact to acquire asset management and IT service management provider Peregrine Systems Inc. for $425 million. Despite an accounting scandal and bankruptcy filing for Peregrine within the last few years, HP found that the San Diego, Calif., company has put in […]

As Voice-Over-IP deployments continue to increase, enterprises are looking to get a handle on what it takes to support and manage voice services on traditional IP data systems. Now, one smaller network management vendor is stepping into the breach to show users how to prepare and maintain networks for optimum VOIP quality. Apparent Networks Inc. […]