Paula Musich

Mercury Interactive Corp. today finally put an architecture and roadmap around its Business Technology Optimization strategy. The Sunnyvale, Calif., application testing provider, which launched its BTO strategy last year, pulled a series of strategic acquisitions along with existing products and enhancements into a cohesive story about how to run IT like a business. The blueprint […]

Apparent Networks Inc. this week will introduce a more application-centric version of its AppareNet network troubleshooting tool for applications managers and help-desk operators. The innovative tool, which gives an end-to-end view of the path that applications traffic follows from sender to receiver, was designed for network engineers. But, it found a surprisingly hearty reception among […]

The field of players in the network configuration management market niche will shrink on Monday when Voyence Inc. announces its acquisition of Ponte Communications Inc. The privately held Voyence would not reveal the purchase price, but it represents the second such acquisition it has made in the last year. Last September the Richardson, Texas, company […]

Collation Inc. wasted no time in following the March debut of its Web applications-configuration and change-management tool with an enhanced release that embraces legacy, non-Web applications. The Confignia tool, which automatically discovers infrastructure components and their dependencies and inter-relationships between the network, system and application level, can now discover and track C++, client/server and custom […]

Two-year-old WAN-optimization startup Peribit Networks Inc. this fall will set its sights on shortening application response times and spanning larger networks when it releases new software and hardware aimed at each. The Santa Clara, Calif., vendor next month will add new Packet Flow Acceleration (PFA) technology to its Sequence Reducer hardware, which employs proprietary Molecular […]

Providing high availability for remote branch offices and lowering WAN costs have often been at odds, but Radware Ltd. says it has found a way to do both. Radware, best known as a maker of high-speed Layer 4 to Layer 7 switches, this week is rolling out its LinkProof Branch device. The tool lets enterprises […]

Extreme Networks Inc. demonstrated its continued commitment to its five-year-old Black Diamond network switch line with a new management module that adds high-end resiliency features. The new MSM-3 management module, which is backward compatible with existing line cards for the Black Diamond 6800 modular switch, adds “hitless failover” in the event of an outage or […]

Network monitoring provider Network Instruments LLC next week will try to race ahead of the protocol analysis pack with a re-architected version of its Windows-based Observer software. Observer 9.0, targeted at medium-sized enterprises, is the first Windows-based protocol analysis and monitoring tool that can support a 4GB memory buffer to better support high-speed networks such […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. advanced its services agenda on two fronts today in creating a new services alliance with systems integrator Affiliated Computer Services Inc. and an expanded alliance with NCR Corp. The new ACS alliance will extend utility computing services based on Sun hardware, software and services to ACS clients, allowing them to pay for […]

Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday further extended the reach of its IP Phone product lineup with a new high-end phone and more-powerful features for its lower-end models. The new Cisco IP Phone 7970G boasts a high-resolution, color touch-screen as well as support for XML, allowing the device to operate as a “mini-browser” for certain vertical […]