Paula Musich

Just when it looked like the pressure was letting up on Computer Associates International Inc., competitors are turning up the heat on the Islandia, N.Y., companys software pricing. Allen Systems Group Inc. this week at Gartner Inc.s Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., will launch an expansion of its CA product replacement program that extends ASGs […]

IBM and BladeLogic Inc., the David and Goliath of autonomic computing, are ratcheting up automation capabilities for their respective solutions that streamline the movement of workloads. At the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., this week, IBM will introduce new workload-balancing capabilities in its WebSphere application servers that eliminate the need for third-party software. The […]

BMC Software Inc. last week sewed together more components of its Business Service Management initiative with the launch of new automated discovery and service model creation tools for its Service Impact Manager. BMC at its BSM Executive Event in New York introduced SIM Version 5.0, which adds BMCs Configuration Management Database integrated with tools that […]

BMC Software Inc. wants to bring the role of the mainframe in its Business Service Management initiative more clearly into focus. To do it, the Houston company is announcing new integration tools that let customers link its SIM (Service Impact Manager), Mainview mainframe management and SmartDBA data management products. The integration will allow customers to […]

BMC Software Inc. at its second Business Service Management Executive Event this week will bring the mainframes role more clearly into focus in where it plays in BMCs strategy to more effectively link IT to the business. One of the earliest large software players to take up the BSM drumbeat, BMC last year at its […]

A group of vendors led by Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Friday will publish a specification for using Web services to manage a range of IT infrastructure elements. The Web Services Management specification, which the group will present next week to the Distributed Management Task Force for […]

As Opsware Inc.—formerly Loudcloud Inc.—continues its transition from services company to software vendor, it is looking to stake a claim in the utility computing gold rush. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company now offers server provisioning and change management software for data centers just two years after selling off its services business to Electronic Data Systems Corp., […]

As the line between network and application monitoring continues to blur, vendors are scrambling to extend their reach into both areas of performance management. Network performance reporting developer Concord Communications Inc. plans to introduce the latest version of its eHealth Suite, an integrated tool for all-around performance management, visualization and analytics. The new eHealth Suite, […]

IBM will launch Friday a new version of its Tivoli transaction-performance monitoring product that greatly expands the range of application transactions it can track. IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance Version 5.3, in addition to a deeper view into the performance of WebSphere application transactions, adds the ability to track transaction performance across BEA WebLogic […]

Cisco Systems on Monday continued to deliver on its initiative to bring more advanced services to growing SMB (small and midsized business) networks with a series of Catalyst switching enhancements. Among the latest SMB offerings are a new supervisor and line card options for the Catalyst 4503 modular switching chassis; a fixed-form-factor Catalyst 4948 switch […]