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CA’s profit soared 153 percent and revenue rose 8 percent year-to-year, the company reported Nov. 1 in an account of its second-quarter 2008 performance. The software firm continued to put its financial struggles behind it, drawing a net income of $137 million compared with $54 million during the same period in 2006 while revenue rose […]

Cisco Systems and Wipro on Oct. 31 will launch a strategic initiative to combine Ciscos networking technology with Wipros IT outsourcing and managed services. Together the two companies will develop integrated services based on Cisco technology aimed initially at customers in Africa and the Middle East, although that will expand later to include Europe, according […]

A pair of small conferencing and collaboration companies hope to be heard above the din in this crowded space by combining their respective strengths and targeting small and midsize businesses. On Nov. 5, audio conferencing service pioneer FreeConference will launch its partnership with visual collaboration platform provider Vyew. The two vendors integrated their respective offerings […]

Web conferencing vendor SightSpeed believes its software-as-a-service-based technology, launched Oct. 29, could displace the hardware-focused business Web conferencing market. The SightSpeed Business videoconferencing service is designed to bridge the gap between unsupported, poor-quality consumer video messaging and expensive, room-based videoconferencing systems aimed at large enterprises. “Traditional business videoconferencing from Polycom or Tandberg is a very […]

Business service management vendor Netuitive made its Service Analyzer tool more large enterprise-ready in a new release launched Oct. 29. The small, privately held company with big-name customers such as AT&T, which selected Service Analyzer to help manage the performance of its iPhone activation system, added real-time service monitoring, the ability to prioritize alarms according […]

EMC announced Oct. 30 it would acquire Voyence, a network change and configuration management provider, to quicken EMCs march into the IT service management arena. The privately held companys VoyenceControl software automates the management of multivendor network device configuration. It already offers integration with the EMC Smarts root-cause analysis fault manager. “Seventy-eight percent of [IT […]

Systems and security management provider NetIQ on Oct. 25 threw its hat into the IT process automation ring with the launch of a new run book automation platform. The Aegis run book automation platform, which has several patents pending, pits NetIQ against behemoths like BMC Software, through BMCs RealOps acquisition, and Hewlett-Packard, which acquired iConclude […]

Virtualization in its various forms, from desktop to server and application virtualization, dominated the Citrix iForum user conference. And with the closing of the XenSource acquisition on the first day of the conference, Citrix Systems CEO Mark Templeton described the acquisition as the biggest and most important for Citrix to date. “The server virtualization market […]

LAS Vegas—Citrix Systems at its iForum conference here announced that to meet customer demands for secure application acceleration it will work with long-time partner Microsoft to enter the highly competitive branch-in-a-box market. The two vendors are working to integrate the Citrix WANScaler WAN optmization appliance with Microsofts Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Internet Security and […]

To thank Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard for validating the market for high-definition video conference, LifeSize Communications is launching three offerings that make the technology more affordable and accessible. The new LifeSize Express, LifeSize Team MP and LifeSize Conference, launched Oct. 23 at Fall Interop in New York, are aimed at different environments and multiple locations […]

HP on Oct. 22 is ending its long silence on the subject of Business Service Management by launching an integrated portfolio of products based on enhanced OpenView tools and technologies acquired with Mercury Interactive. The integration of tools from Mercury, Peregrine Systems and others, combined with major upgrades to several products, is intended add up […]

Citrix Systems at its iForum conference on Oct. 22 will demonstrate to customers just how broad its definition of application delivery really is when it launches new virtualization technology along with new communications, security and power management features embedded in its flagship Presentation Server line. With the close of its XenSource acquisition, Citrix will launch […]