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IP telephony veterans on Monday will launch what is perhaps the first serious initiative to create a large open-source community around Voice over IP. As the networking industry moves toward a software model for IP PBXs, tiny Pingtel Corp. is spearheading the initiative by releasing its Session Initiation Protocol software platform into the open-source world […]

Troux Technologies Inc. is looking to take asset management to the next level with a new IT financial management application that can better measure the costs of supporting an application or a business process. Rather than providing static, asset-centric cost data, the Troux 4 IT Financial Management tool can create a base line that provides […]

Micromuse Inc. has revamped its portal tools to give users added flexibility and security when handling different management systems for a variety of constituents. The San Francisco event-management company reworked its visualization product to consolidate different Web interfaces into a single portal and to provide single sign-on to a range of OSS tools, officials said. […]

Like Prussian soldiers, Cisco Systems Inc. continued its march to advance its Intelligent Information Network vision for embedding advanced services into the network with a range of new software and hardware enhancements for the Catalyst line of modular and stackable switches. The enhancements, launched Thursday at the CeBIT exhibition in Hannover, Germany, span the Catalyst […]

Computer Associates International Inc. on Thursday announced that it as acquired Windows migration tools provider Miramar Systems Inc. for an undisclosed amount of cash. CA chose to acquire Miramar, with which it had a partnership, to “own and control” the patented technology in Miramars Desktop DNA migration software, according to Allan Andersen, director of product […]

NetIQ Corp. is picking up the service-level management mantra uttered by application performance management providers with an update of its AppManager suite. Version 6.0 of AppManager, best known for its Windows applications management, adds several capabilities within its components that provide more service-oriented management of Windows and Unix applications. For example, the Analysis Center component, […]

Cisco Systems Inc. has launched its latest Call Manager platform, along with a new desktop video conferencing application integrated with Cisco IP phones. Call Manager 4.0, Ciscos mainstay VOIP (voice-over-IP) communications software, includes a new optional application and a USB (Universal Serial Bus) video camera, together dubbed the Cisco Video Telephony Advantage, which can create […]

Application management startup Vieo Inc. took a swipe at more established players with the release last week of the Vieo 1000, its new approach to managing applications end to end. The management appliance automatically discovers, models and maps the application environment in a data center. It then monitors application behavior not only to identify potential […]

Marimba Inc. is stepping up its efforts to move into the patch management space with the launch of its latest Marimba Security Patch Management offering. The company added several new features to Version 2.0, which is built on its Marimba 6.0 architecture, including an integrated patch repository that can automatically collect patch information from Microsoft […]

Sources said that IBM on Tuesday will launch the centerpiece of its effort to extend its automated-provisioning technology for on-demand computing into the ISV and Systems Integrator world. The new business partner initiative, dubbed Orchestration and Provisioning Library (OPAL), pulls together a series of tools, best practices, education, validation testing and promotional activities to help […]