Paula Musich

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.—Microsoft Corp. has a variety of “opportunities” to take cost out of the development, deployment and day-to-day operations of IT systems, according to CEO Steve Ballmer. During his keynote address at the Gartner Symposium here this morning, the pugnacious CEO was peppered with questions about the cost of Microsoft software, the security […]

Lake Buena Vista, Fla.—Hewlett Packard Company learned a handful of important lessons in its massive integration effort with the Compaq acquisition, including the need to be able to adapt rapidly to change, according to CEO Carly Fiorina. In her keynote talk at the Gartner Symposium here, Fiorina citing Darwins theory of evolution, said, “the company […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.—iPass Inc. today will broaden its virtual network services portfolio to give CIOs the ability to automatically enforce connection policies for mobile workers. The new iPass Endpoint Policy Management Service allows IT managers to automatically check to ensure that users accessing the corporate intranet have the right “credentials” before they are allowed […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.—Intel Corp. CEO Craig Barrett is not happy with governments role in high technology investing—in the state of California specifically. In his Gartner Symposium keynote talk here this morning, Barrett condemned the Californias high business taxes and said Intel is not making any new investments in the state. “Were investing outside California. […]

A major stumbling block in the quest for complete end-to-end transaction performance for enterprise Web sites has been that external testing services dont work behind the firewall and that internal monitoring and analysis tools cant reveal whats happening out on the Internet. But Keynote Systems Inc. plans to change all that when it launches a […]

Network Physics last week became the latest monitoring provider to link networks to business services. The NP/BizFlow-2000 appliance includes a Business-Network Integration Engine that can track TCP and User Datagram Protocol traffic flows to monitor performance, response time and utilization and link the flows to relevant business groups. The NP/BizFlow-2000 appliance attaches to the mirror […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.—LANDesk Software Inc. is preparing a big product push behind its flagship LANDesk management suite this fall that centers around the latest release of the mature desktop administration suite. LANDesk Management SuiteVersion 8.0, which will be launched Tuesday, boasts a re-architected user interface that provides an even more integrated and unified console […]

Marimba Inc. on Monday will launch the next major release of its software change management suite, emphasizing ease of installation and administration. Dubbed Marimba Six, the release will feature a re-architected installation mechanism to reduce the deployment time for the suite—typically in weeks rather than months—compared to large framework-based tools, according to Kia Behnia, chief […]

Startup Packet Design Inc. on Monday will add key support in its IP route analysis tool for the Border Gateway Protocol. The Palo Alto, Calif., company will announce Version 2.0 of Route Explorer, which collects and analyzes routing path data in real time to troubleshoot logical layer network problems. Traditional network monitoring tools cant track […]

Microsoft Corp. is slowly advancing its sweeping Dynamic Systems Initiative with a handful of new milestones. But so far, its goal of reducing operational costs in heterogeneous data centers relies on third parties—and mostly startups. Microsoft officials at a meeting here last week said that as part of its DSI road map, the companys long-awaited […]

Clearsight Networks Inc., formerly AppDancer Networks Inc., is rolling out new protocol analyzers that provide visibility into the application layer for less experienced users. While most protocol analyzers operate at lower layers of the network and require expert network engineers to understand the protocol decodes, the new ClearSight Analyzer provides a visual representation of complex […]

Redline Networks Inc. later this month will launch a new capability in its line of enterprise application processor and Web I/O processor appliances that gives network and server administrators greater control over Web applications without having to alter them. Redlines OverDrive control environment brings adaptive content processing to Web architectures, allowing Web operators to fine-tune […]