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Efforts by Computer Associates International Inc. to be seen as both a technology vendor and a trusted partner are in peril after a week of scandal-driven turmoil culminating with the companys top executive being stripped of his leadership position. The board of directors removal of Sanjay Kumar from his roles as chairman and CEO also […]

Computer Associates International Inc. is expected early next week to name board member Kenneth Cron as interim CEO, according to sources close to CA. Although not yet confirmed, sources said that CAs board of directors wants Cron to lead CA while the Islandia, N.Y., company searches for a permanent CEO to replace Sanjay Kumar, who […]

Cisco Systems Inc. on Thursday reiterated its commitment to serving small and midsized businesses (SMBs) by bundling products, services, blueprints, special pricing and financing options specific to security, mobility, IP telephony and foundation networks. Ciscos run rate for investing in the SMB space is $2 billion, and it defines the SMB market as serving between […]

Computer Associates International Inc. announced that Chairman and CEO Sanjay Kumar has stepped down and resigned his position from the board. In a curious move, the company has created a new position for Kumar as chief software architect. Lewis Ranieri, lead independent director of the board, was elected chairman of the board for the Islandia, […]

Riverbed Technology Inc. next week will jump into the application switching fray when it introduces its own unique twist on the function—a fusion of compression, caching and Web acceleration. The San Francisco startup chose to address more than just slow Web application response times for traffic traversing a WAN with its new appliances, which combine […]

Application traffic management provider Expand Networks today will do just as its name suggests—expand in several directions—when it launches the next generation of its data center and branch office accelerator appliances, a new software-based accelerator, and a more modular version of its software. The Roseland, N.J., company will try to build on its growing success […]

Network Associates Inc. is expanding its Netasyst line of network management tools for SMBs with a pair of new distributed network analyzers. The Netasyst D and Netasyst DX tools obviate the need for portable protocol analyzers. Both provide remote troubleshooting of 10/100M-bps Ethernet LAN segments from a central location and let operators see what kind […]

In the war on reducing the total cost of ownership for desktops, HP Services has a new weapon in its support arsenal designed to simplify the troubleshooting of all things PC—from notebooks to printers to PDAs. HP Services new Web-based Instant Support Corporate Edition tool can be used to reduce support costs by up to […]

ProactiveNet Inc. is preparing to deliver new service-level management capabilities to senior-level IT and business unit managers looking to gauge the real value of their technology investments. ProactiveNet 6.0 gives the application performance management software added abilities to integrate SLA (service-level agreement) monitoring, analysis and reporting, according to officials in Santa Clara, Calif. Increasing pressure […]

Computer Associates International Inc., a company that is synonymous with corporate makeovers, is in the midst of perhaps its boldest reinvention yet. As the software maker consolidates management offerings and sharpens its security, storage and wireless portfolio, the specter of federal corruption charges and executive shake-ups threatens to undo the reworking that many see as […]