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Computer Associates International is planning its strongest play yet to manage wireless LANs comprehensively with a new system that offers greater automation and streamlines deployment. The new Unicenter Wireless Site Management (WSM) system, due in beta this week from the Islandia, N.Y., company, is designed to help customers overcome some of the hurdles that have […]

Network General plans to re-emerge this summer with a significant refresh of the popular Sniffer product line and a new focus on managing application workflows across enterprise networks. Network General Corp., which will be officially spun off from Network Associates Inc. in July, will embark this week on an 18-month product rollout designed to give […]

Network switch provider Enterasys Networks Inc. is addressing the danger of worms and viruses breaching enterprise networks with new security functions designed to provide more granular responses to threats. The Andover, Mass., enterprise switch provider, which bills itself as a secure network provider, further wed security to its Matrix N-Series multilayer switches and network management […]

Opsware Inc. this week will reach beyond the data center to extend its brand of server provisioning and change management to remote application servers. Opsware Satellite works with an enhanced version of Opsware System Version 4.1 to deliver more effective management to remote servers in branch offices or other remote locations. “Remote servers are not […]

IBMs Tivoli management software brand on Monday launched the latest round of automation capabilities at Forrester Research Inc.s GigaWorld IT Forum. IBM extended automation functions in its IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager to cover its own storage products and also made it possible for customers with other vendors storage gear to integrate those products in order […]

LAS VEGAS—Coming on the heels of a strong fiscal third-quarter report, Cisco Systems Inc. President and CEO John Chambers gave an upbeat keynote presentation at NetWorld+Interop here Wednesday, claiming confidence is up. “Its a pleasure for networking to be back. My main message here is confidence,” said an energetic Chambers. “Consumer confidence was strong during […]

Entuity Inc. will try to bring its triple play of performance, availability and resource management of enterprise networks to the CIO with the latest release of its Eye of the Storm software. Version 3.5 of the fault management and reporting system, which will be shown for the first time this week at the NetWorld+Interop show […]

As it digs out from the rubble of government investigations, accounting scandals and executive shake-ups, Computer Associates International Inc. is hoping to shift some attention back to its products when it announces a handful of upgrades in two weeks at its CA World conference. Much of the news at CA World, which starts May 23 […]

Smarts Inc. on Monday will step up its efforts to better link the management of IT infrastructure to business objectives through a new version of its InCharge suite of root cause and impact analysis software. The centerpiece of the suite is the new InCharge Business Dashboard, a customizable, Web-based view of the status of enterprise […]

Foundry Networks launched new networking hardware this week that is designed to prepare users for the coming of IP Version 6. Although adoption rates for IP V6 are slower in the United States than in Japan and other parts of the world, the U.S. government has mandated adoption of the next-generation IP protocol, with plans […]