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IBM Global Services chief John R. Joyce, on the heels of upbeat earnings news for the services behemoth, left IBM today for a new career at venture capital firm Silver Lake Partners. With his “retirement” effective immediately, IBM made three executive appointments to lead the $46.5 billion services organization. IBM promoted Mike Daniels to senior […]

“Rather than building a traditional hospital and then trying to retrofit it, we thought wed just bite the bullet and do it from the beginning,” said Dr. Robert Kipperman, one of the Oklahoma City hospitals founders. With the help of a consultant, the founders chose an electronic medical records system that best fit the hospitals […]

Startup NetDevices Inc. late last month became the first vendor to release a multifunction communications device designed for centralized management, integrated functionality and high availability for branch offices. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company launched its SG-8 Unified Services Gateway, designed to unify services, reduce management complexity and optimize network performance. The device initially integrates a Layer […]

Pushing ahead with its autonomic computing initiative, IBM said portions of the technology are now ready for prime time, but users say there is still work to be done. IBM recently announced several new autonomic computing offerings, additions that show the technology is fit for enterprise use, company officials said; they point to consistent savings […]

IBM on Thursday declared it has reached a major milestone in its ongoing autonomic computing initiative with developments in four key areas: services, technology, standards creation and partner programs. IBM Global Services launched a pair of new services designed to help speed troubleshooting of IT infrastructure problems and to speed implementation of MySAP and the […]

Cisco Systems Inc. is making its most decisive move to date in its effort to grow beyond its roots as a hardware maker as it fleshes out its Application-Oriented Networking initiative aimed at moving into the upper reaches of the protocol stack. The AON effort marks Ciscos first bid to peer into and act on […]

LAS VEGAS—Cisco Systems CTO Charlie Giancarlo played technology visionary to CEO John Chambers economic seer in his keynote address at Networkers, the companys annual user conference. Giancarlo described for the audience of networking engineers and operators the architecture and strategy Cisco is pursuing as it seeks to move its influence higher up the ISO 7 […]

Hewlett-Packard Co.s procurve networking unit and 3Com Corp. are vying for the attention of enterprise network operators, as both organizations launch a range of new switches and software enhancements designed to make their offerings more useful in enterprise environments. Both vendors—relative outsiders for many large enterprises—continued their assault on well-established enterprise players such as Cisco […]

EMC Corp. this week will seek to convince network services providers that it understands their key problems when it launches the next generations of its acquired Smarts MPLS Manager. In its first Smarts product debut since acquiring management software provider System Management Arts Inc. earlier this year, the Hopkinton, Mass., company will add greater granularity […]

Computer Associates International Inc., on the heels of completing its Concord Communications Inc. acquisition, announced its plan to acquire project portfolio management provider Niku for about $350 million on Thursday. The Niku acquisition is expected to bring a greater level of control over the direction of Nikus Clarity IT-MG suite of IT governance software, which […]