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LAS VEGAS—Computer Associates International Inc. yesterday at Networld + Interop outlined its vision for on-demand computing and put some products behind it. Unlike the platform providers such as IBM or Hewlett Packard Co., whose strategies are centered around their hardware platforms and who dont yet have products to back up their vision, CA waited to […]

LAS VEGAS—Gordon Stitt, president and CEO of Extreme Networks Inc., posed the question, “Is there anything left to invent?” in his keynote address this morning at Networld + Interop. In exploring the question he quoted industry legend Alan Kay, who noted: “Perspective is worth 80 points of IQ.” Such perspective, Stitt said, breeds new insights […]

LAS VEGAS—Cisco Systems Inc. President and CEO John Chambers kicked off the Networld + Interop show this morning with an optimistic talk on the next phase of productivity and technology innovation. The self-described optimist of the industry asserted that technology will continue to increase productivity on a global basis. Despite the hesitancy among business leaders […]

BMC Software Inc. is betting that mainframes will not be replaced by distributed systems any time soon, even as the shortage of assembly language expertise grows. The Houston-based company last week outlined its strategy to help IT lower the cost of ownership for IBM zSeries mainframes and increase the productivity of mainframe system programmers by […]

InfoVista S.A. this week at NetWorld+ Interop will bring more comprehensive performance management to Wi-Fi environments when the company releases its Wireless Fidelity Service Level Management suite. The suite can automatically discover Wi-Fi access points, measure them for bandwidth use and signal strength, and collect performance data. It is intended for Wi-Fi service providers as […]

Abell Labs spinoff hopes to create a new category of tool that could prove valuable to enterprise network planners and operators. Lumeta Corp. last week launched its IPSonar 2.0 network intelligence gathering software, which can gather details of an enterprise IP network and identify security weaknesses that other monitoring products often dont see. “We found […]

In what has generally been a tug of war between services behemoths Electronic Data Systems Corp. and IBM Global Services, the battle for outsourcings so-called megadeals now sports a new player. Hewlett-Packard Co.s HP Services is making serious inroads, signing agreements in recent weeks leading to three large contracts worth $4.6 billion—including a $3 billion, […]

Foundry Networks Inc. on Monday launched its next-generation terabit switching architecture and the first two products that implement the high-performance hardware architecture. The foundation of the architecture is 10Gbps Ethernet technology, which will be targeted at both enterprises as well as service providers for LAN, MAN and WAN applications. “The next generation switching products will […]

InfoVista S.A. next week at Networld + Interop will bring more comprehensive performance management to Wi-Fi environments when it launches its new Wireless Fidelity Service Level Management suite. The new suite, which can automatically discover Wi-Fi access points, measure those points for bandwidth usage and signal strength, collect performance metrics and actively test Wi-Fi connections, […]

NetBotz Inc., which pioneered the development of IP-based physical security appliances, next week will launch the next generation of its Sentry devices. The Austin-based company, formed in 1999 to provide centrally managed physical threat sensors that monitor sensitive areas such as computer rooms, gathered up customer feedback to create the more flexible WallBotz 500, along […]

Siemens AG subsidiary Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. next week will outline its plan to marry physical security and network/information security in a wide-ranging initiative. The Boca Raton, Fla.-based Siemens ICN unit on Monday will debut its HiPath Sicurity Solutions portfolio of products and services geared toward network and application-level security for IP networks. […]

Applications performance tuning provider FineGround Networks Inc. this week will move into real-time performance monitoring with a new member of its product suite. FineGround, which already provides a patent-pending server optimization and Secure Sockets Layer acceleration, is adding the new AppScope monitor to isolate response-time problems on specific applications or networks, validate end-user performance experience, […]