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Java-based application management provider Wily Technology Inc. Monday announced a new $15 million round of venture backing, building on its sales momentum. Officials at the Burlingame, Calif., company claimed that its sales tripled last year over 2001, and that the company exceeded its revenue goal for 2002. “We doubled our customer base, and our maintenance […]

Cisco Systems Inc. Tuesday reported mixed results for its second fiscal quarter of 2003, which ended Jan. 25. The San Jose, Calif., networking behemoth beat Wall Street earnings expectations by a penny, reporting 14 cents a share in earnings—compared with 8 cents a share in the first quarter. But revenues, at $4.7 billion, were off […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. last week launched a network planning and design architecture with which it seeks to rewrite the rules of campus network design. While campus LANs today are designed with all or most of the network intelligence in the core of the network in large, expensive, modular switches—with inexpensive Layer 2 LAN switches populating the […]

If theres one place in the enterprise where Ethernet has failed to gain ubiquity, its on the factory floor. But that is changing rapidly, according to a study released last week. ARC Advisory Group Inc. found in its study, “Ethernet at the Device Level Worldwide Outlook,” that at the lowest level of the factory automation […]

Peribit Networks Inc. late last month launched a low-end option in its line of WAN bandwidth-saving devices and added a centralized configuration and management tool for the devices. The startup, which applied DNA research techniques to improve expensive WAN bandwidth use in a manner akin to data compression, added a hardware option intended for branch […]

Usinternetworking Inc. on Monday will launch a new managed service around payroll and payroll tax processing, an offering which grew out of its just-completed merger with Interpath Communications Inc. USi will make the case that it has already built up significant momentum in the ASP space, having completed its Interpath data center migration, converted the […]

Cisco Systems Inc. earlier this week tackled the complexity issues surrounding deployment of quality of service functions in its switches and routers with new automation features. Cisco embedded the new AutoQoS function within its IOS and Catalyst Operating System software, allowing users to automate configuration of QoS functions across its switches and routers. AutoQoS is […]

IBM and American Express will begin delivering on the agreement they struck last year to take IBMs Web-based expense reporting and reconciliation tool, customized by Amex, and make it available to Corporate Card customers. American Express next week will begin marketing the new tool, which will be hosted by IBM Global Services at its data […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. launched Monday a new network planning and design architecture that seeks to rewrite the rules of campus network design. While campus LANs today are designed with all or most of the network intelligence residing in the core of the network in large, expensive modular switches, HPs new ProCurve Networking Adaptive Edge Architecture advocates […]

Force10 Networks Inc. last week gave 10 Gigabit Ethernet a shove down the price curve with a 44 percent reduction in the cost of its line cards. The move comes as prices for the emerging high-speed networking technology have begun to inch downward among the primary vendors supplying 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. Since Extreme Networks […]

Compuware Corp. this week hopes to simplify tool administration with the introduction of Web consoles that span multiple tools in their respective management suites. Compuware plans to ship this week Version 8.5 of its Vantage suite of network, system and client management software with a common Web interface. The rollout will come close on the […]

BMC Software Inc. this week will incorporate fault management into its Visualis network performance modeling tool. Patrol Visualis Fault Manager, a component of Patrol Visualis 1.3, uses the same map to show performance data actively gathered through polling of network resources as well as reactive availability information. “In the same tool, you can look at […]