Paula Musich

Shunra is preparing to give network architects and planners an even more accurate replica of production environments to test out the effects of new applications on enterprise networks when it launches the next major release of its Shunra Virtual Enterprise software. Release 3.5 of the software, previously called Storm, delivers integration with Segue Softwares SilkPerformer […]

Extreme Networks Inc. on Monday introduced its biggest security push to date with the addition of a security rules engine for its BlackDiamond 10K 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch and an adjunct security appliance. Together the new Clear-Flow security rules engine and Sentriant Virtual Security Resource, or VSR, appliance are designed to thwart both first-order and […]

The nascent but fast-growing application-performance optimization market got a vote of confidence from a major networking vendor on Monday when Juniper Networks announced its intent to acquire Peribit Networks and Redline Networks in two deals with a combined value of $469 million. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company agreed to acquire WAN-performance optimization provider Peribit Networks Inc. […]

Microsoft Corp. executives are set on challenging Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and others for supremacy in the enterprise management market, but their company faces a long, hard road to get there, according to users. At the Microsoft Management Summit conference here last week, Steve Ballmer, Microsofts CEO, said the company is committed to managing heterogeneous computing […]

After long shunning the multivendor management needs of the real world of heterogeneous computing, Microsoft Corp. at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas this week took its first initial management interoperability steps. But despite the fanfare of a demonstration during CEO Steve Ballmers keynote that showed MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager) monitoring a Sun/Solaris server, […]

When Microsoft launched its Dynamic Systems Initiative two years ago to improve the manageability of its products and the applications that run on its platforms, it talked about fuzzy architectural concepts for building manageability into programs from their initial creation. Two years later, at this years Microsoft Management Summit, officials highlighted the concrete steps that […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dropped the pretense Tuesday around the companys platform-management intentions: Rather than managing only its own platform, Microsoft wants to become one of the primary enterprise management providers. In his keynote address Tuesday at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas, Ballmer highlighted Microsofts commitment to helping customers better manage their IT […]

ScriptLogic Corp. on Monday picked up the security drumbeat for remote desktop administration when it released the latest version of its Desktop Authority user administration tool. The mature tool, now at release 6.5, brings new patch management functions in addition to new anti-spyware capabilities to the remote desktop configuration management software. “Were going after security […]

LAS VEGAS—On the two-year anniversary of the launch of its Dynamic Systems Initiative, Microsoft Corp. set out an aggressive road map for the next two years to take its manageability forward. Among the coming developments are new versions of both Microsoft Operations Manager and Systems Management Server. MOM Version 3, due in the next two […]

Cisco Systems Inc. last week unveiled a series of router enhancements that are aimed at giving service providers greater network flexibility, efficiency and manageability. In an effort to build momentum behind its IP NGN (Next-Generation Network) initiative, Cisco is extending its modular IOS (Internetwork Operating System) XR to its 12000 Series routers. The San Jose, […]