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Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday confirmed that it has tapped NCR CEO Mark Hurd to take over as its president and CEO, replacing the ousted Carly Fiorina. But his quick assignment, for many observers, raises more questions than it answers—especially around HPs services and software business. “There is a short list of things he has to address […]

Application acceleration provider HyperSpace Communications last week agreed to acquire MPC Computers in a deal valued at about $16 million. The smaller software company is acquiring MPC from its current owner, Gores Technology Group, which acquired MPC from Micron Technology four years ago. MPC has 800 employees and makes some 50,000 PCs, laptops, desktops and […]

Fidelia Technology Inc. is adding automatic application discovery capabilities to its integrated performance, fault and business service monitoring software. NetVigil 3.6 extends Fidelias business container technology, which stores the relationship of components that make up a business service by adding analysis of the underlying relationships among business service components. Such analysis reduces the number of […]

Compuware and IBM last week announced a settlement to their intellectual property and antitrust litigation that calls for IBM to license $140 million in Compuware software and buy $260 million worth of Compuware professional services over the next four years. The agreement, which brings to an end a federal trial that began in early February, […]

High-end network switch vendor Force10 Networks Inc. hopes to move beyond the network core and into the data center with its first fixed-configuration switch. The Force10 S50 switch, which will be launched Monday, provides 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports operating at line rate and two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Force10 brings to the switch its corelike […]

Compuware Corp. and IBM on Monday announced a settlement to their intellectual property and anti-trust litigation that calls for IBM to license $140 million in Compuware software and buy $260 million worth of Compuware professional services over the next four years. The agreement, which brings to an end a federal trial that began in early […]

Network General on Tuesday continued trying to build momentum from its spinoff from Network Associates Technology Inc. with a new release of its Sniffer Portable protocol analyzer. Sniffer Portable 4.8, a software-only analyzer typically used on Windows-based laptops, adds real-time protocol decodes, allowing users to “see details of captured data in real time for quicker […]

Growing interest in application discovery and dependency mapping has a handful of startups working to improve the technology with better integration and scalability. nLayers Inc. last week announced improvements in its InSight appliance, including automatic application and infrastructure discovery. InSight 3.0 can map dependencies in real time and can discover 400 servers per minute, according […]

Application acceleration provider HyperSpace Communications Inc. on Monday said it has agreed to acquire MPC Computers LLC in a deal valued at at least $16 million. The unique combination of a small software company that provides server-based HTTP compression and a much-larger PC and server manufacturer is intended to yield value for both operations, according […]

Fidelia Technology Inc. on Tuesday will extend its integrated performance, fault and business service monitoring software so that it can automatically discover applications. NetVigil 3.6 extends Fidelias business container technology, which stores the relationship of components that make up a business service, by adding the ability to analyze the underlying relationship between the components of […]