Paula Musich

BMC Software Inc. on Tuesday added a pair of new performance-management tools to its Enterprise Performance Assurance lineup that extend the Web-based management capabilities into mainframes and AS/400s. The new MAINVIEW Perceive and PATROL for iSeries-Perceive provide Web-based access to historical performance data on mainframes and their applications as well as AS/400s and their applications. […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday announced that has signed a handful of new services contracts valued at $1 billion-plus. Along with the $600 million outsourcing contract it announced with the Bank of Ireland last week, HP also announced a string of smaller outsourcing contracts across the globe. The work spans a range of activities, from technical-support […]

IBM will celebrate the anniversary of its Rational Software acquisition this week by launching the first Tivoli tool to fully exploit Rationals Robot technology. The new release of TMTP (Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance) is the first IBM product to exploit the Rational technology, which generates specialized synthetic transactions for testing applications during development. The […]

Extreme Networks Inc. on Monday brought out its next-generation core network switch designed to support 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Extremes new Black Diamond 10K high-end switch is based on both a new hardware architecture, dubbed the 4GNSS, for fourth-generation network silicon system, and a new, modular software architecture based on Unix, dubbed ExtremeWare XOS. The 1.6-terabits-per-second […]

At the Computer Measurement Groups CMG2003 conference in Dallas, service-level-management startup SeaNet Technologies on Monday will launch its first pair of products designed to measure actual user response times for Web services. The New York firm, in making its transition from a consulting to a product company, created the SeaView/RTM (Response Time Monitor) and SeaView/PDB […]

Candle Corporation on Monday will launch a series of new testing and tuning tools as well as consulting services aimed at developers and architects creating complex J2ee applications and conducting enterprise application integration initiatives. The six new product and services offerings in the one-year-old Pathwai line focus on trying to reduce the high failure rate […]

The orchestration of it services for the Athens Olympics next year has taken a 180-degree turn from those carried out for the 2000 Sydney or 1996 Atlanta summer games. While the mantra for those earlier Olympics IT efforts might have been “showcase leading-edge technology,” the Athens, Greece, mantra is “test, test, test” before the games […]

NetQoS Inc. is preparing to launch a rearchitected version of its network performance reporting and traffic management tool that can scale to some of the largest enterprise networks based on Cisco Systems Inc. products. ReporterAnalyzer Version 5.0, which provides historical usage reporting and traffic analysis using data collected by NetFlow in Cisco switches and routers, […]

LANDesk Software Ltd. joins a growing list of patch management providers with the introduction of a new add-on to its LANDesk Management Suite. The LANDesk Patch Manager 8 add-on moves the Intel Corp. spinoff into the desktop security arena, beyond its desktop administration base. The tool draws on the inventory-gathering capabilities on the front end […]

WAN optimization provider Expand Networks Inc. on Dec. 8 will launch a new applications traffic management tool that promises to bring greater visibility into how applications are performing across enterprise WANs. The Roseland, N.J., company will introduce its ExpandView application traffic management software, which can discover and classify some 100 different enterprise applications, such as […]