Paula Musich

Users of Citrix Systems Inc.s MetaFrame will be seeing a big boost in performance optimization on several fronts, with releases of monitoring and performance management tools from several vendors. Compuware Corp., Aurema Inc., PremiTech Inc. and RTO Software Inc. are targeting enterprises using the MetaFrame server, which has an installed base of about 750,000 and […]

Peribit Networks Inc. continues to pack its WAN optimization product line with new features and hardware options to bring wider functionality to the growing market. With market researchers predicting growth rates for WAN optimization of at least 16 percent and a rise in revenue from $236 million this year to $427 million by 2008, Peribit […]

Coyote Point Systems Inc., an application traffic management provider, this week will go after larger enterprises with a new high-end load balancer. The San Jose, Calif.-based vendor, which has historically sold load balancers to small and midsize enterprises for about a quarter of the price of those offered by larger vendors such as Cisco Systems […]

Relicore Inc. continues to expand the functionality of its Clarity automated application configuration management tool by adding application process discovery capabilities. The AppSense technology in Clarity 3.5 can automatically discover all running processes on an application server and create a comprehensive, server-to-server dependency map. Clarity, which can track configuration changes in real time, keeps a […]

Foundry Networks Inc. hopes to hit a sweet spot for enterprise and service provider networks with a new line of midrange application switches that marry the simplicity of fixed configuration devices to the flexibility and availability of a high-end chassis. The ServerIronGT E Series layers 4 through 7 switches are designed for network operators looking […]

Cisco Systems Inc.s proposed acquisition of Procket Networks Inc., announced on Thursday, is a move intended to bolster future product development beyond Ciscos brand-new high-end router targeted at telecommunications providers. Cisco, rather than acquiring somewhat redundant routing products from the struggling startup, picked up Prockets intellectual property around semiconductor development along with a highly prized […]

Desktop management software developer AutoProf will be one of the first in its class to extend the Group Policy environment in Microsoft Corp.s Active Directory with a new Windows desktop configuration manager. AutoProfs new lightweight Policy Maker Professional uses Active Directorys Group Policy environment to eliminate much of the necessary script writing and automate configuration […]

Alterpoint Inc. is ramping up network change and configuration management with the next generation of its DeviceAuthority Suite in an effort to combat the growing number of network failures being blamed on human error. At this weeks Hewlett-Packard Co. Software Forum in Montreal, Alterpoint, of Austin, Texas, will debut the new tools along with new […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is extending OpenViews reach with new tools that sources said drive the product into business process management and offer improved ways of analyzing network routing. At this weeks HP Software Forum in Montreal, the Palo Alto, Calif., companys management software division will launch an OpenView Business Process Insight tool that, according to sources […]

Singlestep Technologies Corp. is boarding the management dashboard bandwagon with the launch of a major release of its Unity IT process automation and information management software. Unity 2.0, which unites and normalizes event and other network management data from a range of management offerings into a comprehensive view, adds a customizable Dashboard that provides a […]