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ProactiveNet Inc. this week will continue its climb up the food chain of management applications with a new release of its ProactiveNet Web applications performance management software. The Santa Clara, Calif., company, with a new underlying architecture for its tool that emphasizes correlation and root-cause analysis, is expanding the range of data sources it can […]

Silverback Technologies Inc. this week will jump on the patch management bandwagon with a new version of its IT resource monitoring software that adds automated vulnerability assessment. Silverbacks software monitors network, system, application and firewall availability and performance for medium-sized customers. Release 3.8 emphasizes the ability to identify, prioritize and mitigate Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities. “Were […]

Broadcom Corp. Wednesday did its part to help lower the cost of 10 Gigabit Ethernet when it launched a new multilayer switch chip. The BCM5673 chip integrates Layer 2 through Layer 7 switching and routing functions in silicon and supports the emerging 10GBASE-CX4 copper wiring standard for 10 Gigabit Ethernet at a tenth of the […]

Mobile Automation Inc. next week will continue its advance on enterprise desktop deployments with a new release of its Mobile Lifecycle Management Suite. The six-year-old firm, which began with a mission to provide scaleable, easy-to-use tools to manage mobile computers including laptops and handhelds, added features in release 5.2 of its Mobile Automation Suite to […]

ProactiveNet Inc. next week will continue its movement up the food chain of management software with a new release of its ProactiveNet Web applications performance management software. The Santa Clara, Calif., company, with a new underlying architecture for its tool that emphasizes correlation and root cause analysis, is expanding the range of data sources that […]

Foundry Networks Inc. will raise the bar for competitive server load balancing with the latest release of the operating system for its ServerIron Layer 4 to Layer 7 switches. TrafficWorks Ironware Version 9.0, due in September, promises to boost performance, increase security, offload more server overhead and streamline administration of the load balancing switches. The […]

NetScaler Inc. next month will release new functionality for its NetScaler 9000 Series secure applications networking system that adds Secure Sockets Layer virtual private networking and improved manageability. The Santa Clara, Calif., companys offering combines Layer 4 to Layer 7 switching with security and Web applications performance optimization on a single hardware platform. The NetScaler […]

In the marketing wars of On Demand or Utility Computing, IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co., Computer Associates International Inc. and others look to poke holes in each others positioning while advancing their own initiatives. At the centerpiece of each of those vendors strategies is management software to monitor, measure and dynamically control IT computing resources. Robert LeBlanc, […]

EDS today posted a decline in net income of $138 million for its second quarter, compared to $316 million in the same quarter last year. Earnings per share dropped to 28 cents from 64 cents in the same quarter last year. Total revenue for the quarter saw a two percent rise to $5.52 billion. “While […]

Computer Associates International Inc. launched its latest foray into Web services management last week with a tool designed to manage the services themselves—as opposed to the infrastructure that delivers them. The Unicenter WSDM (Web Services Distributed Management) tool can automatically discover Web services as they are added to an enterprises network, catalog the service and […]

Computer associates International Inc. last week unveiled its new on-demand computing technology, code-named Sonar, which allows IT administrators to monitor and manage IT infrastructure in the context of business processes. Sonar can automatically discover and map IT assets, define the relationship between assets and business processes, and automate reprovisioning of resources when business process applications […]

It came down to betting the farm on the network. When the U.S. Department of Agricultures three main agencies decided to move to a Web-enabled architecture recently, it was clear the USDAs aging frame relay network had to make a major leap forward to support an exponential growth in traffic. Deployed in 1998, the old […]