Paula Musich

The bets Cisco Systems Inc. has made on technologies such as voice over IP, security and wireless seem to be paying off as the company last week reported positive growth for its fourth fiscal quarter. But despite overcoming Wall Street skepticism and posting gains, doubts about continued growth and questions about future tech strategies are […]

Following Cisco Systems Inc.s fourth-quarter earnings call, Cisco Chief Development Officer Charlie Giancarlo spoke with eWEEK Senior Editor Paula Musich about Ciscos initiatives, acquisition strategy and recent security-vulnerabilities reporting controversy. How did that Nokia [Corp.] acquisition rumor get started? People see us meeting with these big companies. We attempt to build partnerships with many big […]

Cisco saw continued momentum in its fourth fiscal quarter of 2005 with revenue growth of 11.1 percent to $6.6 billion for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2005. Cisco Systems Inc., based in San Jose, Calif., earned 24 cents a share or net income of $1.5 billion for the quarter. The company attributed the growth to […]

At the LinuxWorld conference & Expo this week, Opsware Inc. will debut its new Opsware Global Shell, a product designed to address the automated functionality missing from GUI-based server management tools. The new shell uses a virtual file system and the Opsware Server Automation Systems data model, allowing users to create scripts to execute tasks […]

With a new migration bundle of hardware, software and services, Dell Inc. is taking aim at the large number of procrastinators now facing the end of support for Microsoft Corp.s Exchange 5.5. “People havent moved because its hard and it costs money,” said Leslie Sobon, director of global alliances at Dell, in Round Rock, Texas. […]

WAN optimization vendor Expand Networks Inc., following the trend of melding application-performance optimization techniques in a single offering, next month will add support for moving WAFS and CIFS traffic across WAN links. The wide-area file services and Common Internet File System support, which Expand addresses with new appliances that can accommodate hard disks for disk-based […]

Startup Netuitive Inc. is looking to provide the business service management glue for enterprises struggling to determine the impact of IT infrastructure problems on business processes. The companys new Netuitive Service Analyzer is intended to bridge the gap between user-experience monitoring and systems/applications monitoring to correlate whats happening on the infrastructure side and show IT […]

CA announced Wednesday that it is cutting 800 jobs as part of a restructuring effort, and at the same time reported an 8 percent revenue rise to $920 million and earnings per share of 15 cents for its first fiscal quarter of 2006. The 5 percent workforce reduction, which will cut jobs worldwide, is intended […]

Cisco on Tuesday announced its intent to acquire service provider-focused network management provider Sheer Networks for $97 million. The privately held Sheer Networks Inc., based in San Jose, Calif. is expected to provide Cisco Systems Inc. with a framework for creating multivendor network management applications designed to take the cost out of operating next-generation service […]

As interest in the technology continues to heat up, application acceleration/WAN optimization vendors are launching new wares that boost performance, deliver new encryption capabilities and expand the range of applications that can be improved. Swan Labs Corp. and Riverbed Technology Inc. are among the remaining independent players in a $960 million annual market, which has […]