Paula Musich

Novell Inc. officially put its headquarters flag in Waltham, Mass., last week when it designated its address there in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing last week. But the move, in the works for some time, came as no surprise and will have no effect on operations, according to the company. The dual-headquarters designation for […]

End-user management provider Abridean Inc. next week will try to set itself apart from a crowded field of players with the latest release of its Provisor provisioning software. The niche player in the competitive space, which just yesterday saw consolidation through the Quest Software Inc. acquisition of Aelita Software, added further automation capabilities for both […]

A Web services management provider is keying off a growing trend and ramping up new capabilities that extend visibility from the Web server to the browser. AmberPoint Inc., which has tackled Web services management one problem at a time, is readying support for HTML on top of existing SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and XML […]

Dell Inc., continuing its quest to become a legitimate networking vendor, launched its first foray into Layer 3 switching. The Round Rock, Texas, company last week added a pair of 24-port Layer 3 switches to its existing Layer 2 switching products, extending the high end of its product line a week after adding a low-end, […]

Network Associates Inc.s Sniffer Technologies group has pumped up the companys Sniffer product line with additional throughput support and more management. The new Sniffer Portable Lab 10 Gigabit Ethernet Analyzer is the companys first protocol analyzer for 10 Gigabit Ethernet and is based on Intel Corp.s 2.2GHz Pentium 4 processor running Windows 2000. The Santa […]

Four vendors in the fledgling multivendor network configuration management space have brought out new releases of their competing offerings. Rendition Networks, Alterpoint Inc., Gold Wire Technology Inc. and Voyence Inc. may be on the same development cycles, but the market is heating up. IDC analyst Stephen Elliot estimates IT departments will spend $150 million to […]

Two vendors this week will extend the upper reaches of their complementary WAN optimization and application acceleration offerings with new high-end units. In the fast-growing WAN optimization market, forecast by some market researchers to double this year, Expand Networks Inc. will launch a more scalable version of its Accelerator line of WAN compression and optimization […]

As part of its re-entry into the core switching and routing space, 3Com Corp. last week added the next family member in its Switch 7700 line with a high-availability version. The Switch 7700R is the second member of the chassis-based LAN switch line to come out of the Marlboro, Mass., companys joint venture with Huawei […]

Network Associates Inc.s Sniffer Technologies group on Monday will introduce its first Sniffer protocol analyzer for 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Debuting along with the Santa Clara, Calif. companys new Sniffer Portable Lab 10 Gigabit Ethernet Analyzer, is its new InfiniStream network management tool, which combines a hardware-based traffic-capture engine and large-scale storage, along with a protocol-decode […]

Shunra Software Ltd. is readying an upgrade to its testing suite that officials said will further help companies prepare new multitiered applications for the real world. Version 3.1 of the Shunra Storm Solution Suite predeployment lab in a box comes with the added ability to centrally manage end-user load emulation and third-party automated laboratory applications—such […]