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F5 Networks last week announced its planned acquisition of WAN optimization and application acceleration provider Swan Labs in a $43 million cash deal. F5, which has historically focused on applications traffic management, intends to use the Swan Labs offerings to accelerate its product road map for adding more application acceleration functionality to its Big-IP Version […]

Interest is growing in provider-based SSL VPN services. But until now, thats been an expensive proposition for service providers to fulfill. Juniper Networks Inc. announced Monday that it hopes to change that with a new platform capable of supporting multiple, customized services on a single box. Junipers new Secure Access 6000 SP appliance is one […]

F5 Networks on Tuesday announced its planned acquisition of WAN optimization and application acceleration provider Swan Labs in a $43 million cash deal. F5 Networks Inc., which has historically focused on applications traffic management, said it intends to use Swan Labs Corp.s offerings to accelerate its product road map for adding more application acceleration functionality […]

Both enterprises and service providers are expanding their use of service-level agreements but say they believe that the failure to meet the agreements could lead to more outsourcing of IT operations. Service-level management provider Oblicore Inc., in its third annual survey on the use of SLAs, due out this week, found that of 140 IT […]

Three years after its spin-off from Intel Corp., LANDesk Software continues to build momentum as an independent desktop management provider, with the release of the next major upgrade to its desktop, server and security management software. Along with Version 8.6 of its LANDesk Security Suite, LANDesk Management Suite and LANDesk Server Manager, LANDesk Software struck […]

Management data specialist Singlestep Technologies Corp. this week will introduce a redesigned version of its Unity IT process automation software that can combine results from some 30 different tools into a single view. The advanced event-handling capabilities of the new Unity Suite 2.5 are aimed at midsize enterprises, MSPs (management service providers) and large enterprise […]

Cisco Systems is bringing the benefits of its new IOS XR software for service providers routers down to the enterprise and its wiring closets with the introduction of more modular software for the Catalyst 6500 switch. The new, more modular version of Cisco System Inc.s Internetwork Operating System for the Catalyst 6500, launched on Monday, […]

Last week 3Com Corp. continued to fill in the products fulfilling its converged, secure network strategy with a pair of new switches aimed at enterprises small branch offices and workgroups. The new 3Com OfficeConnect Managed Switch 9 Series Layer 2 switches raise the competitive stakes for small, managed workgroup switches with a mix of security, […]

IBM next month will launch the next release of its IBM Tivoli Monitoring software, which delivers the greatest level of integration yet between Tivoli and the acquired Candle Corp. Omegamon technology and sets the stage for helping IT automate more processes to lower labor costs. ITM 6.1 for the first time delivers cross-platform monitoring from […]

Sarbanes-Oxley compliance has fueled interest in the IT Infrastructure Library best practices, but a lack of understanding of ITIL and lack of baseline performance measurements could keep IT shops implementing it from achieving its promised efficiency gains. Those are a couple of the conclusions of a survey of IT managers and executives on ITIL initiatives […]