Paula Musich

Its that time again to make resolutions for the new year, and with the growing interest in adopting best IT practices, many IT shops are looking in 2008 to move beyond the firefighting mode theyve struggled with in past years. As adoption of ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) best practices ramps up, some experts see an […]

Call it hope in a box or an angel on the broadband airwaves. Relief workers in Bangladesh and elsewhere following the devastating cyclone Sidr in November have used those descriptions and more in praising NetHope’s latest iteration of its Network Relief Kit. The NRK, developed over several years to provide instant communications for first responders […]

Cisco Systems on Dec. 19 announced that its chief development officer, Charlie Giancarlo, will step down to become a managing director in private equity firm Silver Lake. Giancarlo, a 14-year veteran at Cisco, led Cisco’s 20,000 engineers and was responsible for managing the strategy and execution of Cisco’s technological development. He was also president of […]

Cisco Systems recent reorganization of its development organization may be an indication that the company is preparing for the eventual departure of Chief Development Officer Charlie Giancarlo. That’s the view of a source close to Cisco who noted that Giancarlo is thought to be hungry for an opportunity to run a large technology company himself. […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Despite the emphasis on virtualization at the Cisco Systems C-Scape conference here, Cisco’s efforts in the data center virtualization arena are barely underway. Although CEO John Chambers described a coming revolution in the data center as a result of virtualization, Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 vision, launched this summer, will be a three- to […]

Cisco Systems believes video is the killer app for the next generation of Internet. But that will likely not impact the enterprise for another five to seven years. Cisco at its C-Scape conference in San Jose beat the collaboration drum in laying out its strategy and vision for the future of networking, with video playing […]

Juniper Networks on Dec. 10 announced its intent to open up its modular JUNOS router operating system to third-party development when it launched its new Partner Solution Development Platform. Juniper has already begun working with a range of partners on different types of applications. The aim is to give carriers, service providers, large enterprises and […]

Verizon Business is giving its nod of approval to Nortel Network’s alliance with Microsoft with a new managed service for Nortel’s IP PBX. Verizon Business, which already offers a managed service for Cisco Systems’ IP PBX products, on Dec. 10 added Nortel’s Communication Server 1000 IP-PBX, Business Communications Manager branch-office IP PBX and CallPilot voice […]

VOIP Web services company BlueNote Networks on Dec. 10 will extend its ability to embed voice into online business applications or services when it launches a pair of new application program interfaces for its SessionSuite communications platform. The new APIs (application program interfaces) for BlueNote’s SessionSuite SOA Edition, which allows developers to embed voice within […]

Business service management startup FireScope will launch a new online marketplace on Dec. 10 that pulls together products and resources aimed at helping IT departments improve efficiency in operations management. To date, the new FireScope Marketplace offers more than 200 different products in its catalog from six different vendors that can help increase IT effectiveness, […]

Nortel Networks continued to build product momentum behind its VOIP alliance with Microsoft when it announced on Dec. 5 the general availability of its promised Multimedia Conferencing 5.0 software. The new MC 5.0 software, the latest deliverable in the Microsoft/Nortel Innovative Communications Alliance, spins out the multimedia conferencing capabilities in Nortel’s Multimedia Communications Server 5100 […]

Traffic management and application acceleration provider Packeteer on Dec. 3 will outline its vision for how to reach the nirvana of network traffic management and launch three new products that move it toward that state. Packeteer, which pioneered quality-of-service monitoring and control of applications traffic across corporate WANs, sees that market merging with the fast […]