Paula Musich

IBMs Tivoli brand has quietly built momentum in managing storage, security, distributed systems and mainframes, aided by last summers acquisition of Candle Corp. The move has resulted in a 25 percent revenue increase for Tivoli in IBMs fourth fiscal quarter. eWEEK Senior Editor Paula Musich spoke recently with Tivoli General Manager Al Zollar about whats […]

F5 Networks Inc. this week rolls out a high-end version of its Big-IP layers 4-7 switch and updated software that company officials said offers unprecedented speed and a boost in performance. As part of the announcement, the Seattle company is unveiling what officials said is the first ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit)-based compression technology that can […]

BMC Software Inc. on Monday became one of the earliest of the big four enterprise management players to launch a configuration management database. Following on the heels of CMDB updates from smaller vendors Collation Inc. and nLayers Inc., BMC released its Atrium CMDB as part of its Business Service Management initiative. BMC Atrium CMDB is […]

Increased interest in running IT as a business service has the application discovery and dependency mapping arena heating up. Collation Inc. last week bolstered its position in the growing infrastructure mapping niche with Confignia 3.0. The release comes fast on the heels of rival nLayer Communications Inc.s rollout of its Software Development Kit and OEM […]

Foundry Networks Inc. is turning up the heat in an effort to deliver more intelligence at the edge of the network and reduce the cost of 10 Gigabit Ethernet in the core with the launch of its new SuperX series of Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches. With the release, the San Jose, Calif., company […]

Computer Associates International Inc., still reeling from scandals while professing a renewed commitment to customer service and corporate governance, is undergoing a management shake-up that pushes aside one of CAs rising stars in favor of the last remaining member of the companys old guard. According to sources familiar with the plans, Russ Artzt, a CA […]

To keep pace with the changing requirements of network managers and compliance and security officers, AlterPoint Inc. is set to unveil a new version of its DeviceAuthority Suite for automated network change and configuration management of heterogeneous networks. Version 3.5 of the suite adds greater intelligence and analytics to better address policies around compliance and […]

New component discovery and dependency mapping tools, along with new partnerships, are helping one management software vendor make its case to users looking for compliance and IT consolidation help. nLayers Inc., based in San Jose, Calif., last week said it will resell its automated discovery and relationship mapping appliance to industry players with the release […]

With the launch of its Aspen 8800 enterprise LAN switches, Extreme Networks Inc. is challenging network designers to rethink the way they build systems to deal with voice traffic and growing internal security threats. With the rise of VOIP (voice over IP) and the exponential growth of malicious traffic, Extreme officials said they believe the […]

Application performance optimizer FineGround Inc. later this month will further help IT fine-tune Web applications delivery with a new dashboard view of performance. The Campbell, Calif., company added the dashboard to its Enterprise Application Delivery Suite, which includes the AppScope performance monitor. The dashboard assembles statistics from AppScope to help IT understand the impact of […]

In the effort to tackle troubleshooting of complex, n-tier applications, the lines are blurring between niche packet analyzers and mainstream enterprise monitoring tools. As a result, customers with critical data at stake are finding more solutions with better integration of packet diagnostics and enterprise management, experts say. At the intersection of this convergence trend are […]

WAN optimization leader Packeteer Inc. jumped into the mergers and acquisitions frenzy Wednesday when it announced its acquisition of protocol acceleration provider Mentat Inc. for about $16.5 million in cash. Network performance optimization is inching closer to the mainstream, as users look to get the most efficiency out of their expensive WAN links and to […]