Paula Musich

Foundry Networks Inc. this week will extend the high and low ends of the companys switch/router product line as it looks to satisfy customers trying to reduce the number of vendors they must deal with. At the high end, Foundry will introduce a two-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet line card for its high-speed, chassis-based switches. At […]

Peribit Networks earlier this week launched a new low-end option in its unique line of WAN bandwidth-saving devices and added a new centralized configuration and management tool for the devices. The startup, which applied DNA research techniques to improve expensive WAN bandwidth utilization in a manner akin to data compression, added a new hardware option […]

Computer Associates International Inc. grew its revenue by 4 percent to $778 million in its third fiscal quarter for 2003, which ended December 31. The Islandia, N.Y., company narrowed its third quarter net loss to $44 million, compared to a net loss of $231 million for the same quarter a year earlier. CA beat Wall […]

BMC Software Inc. Monday moved to consolidate fault management into its Visualis network performance modeling tool. The new Patrol Visualis Fault Manager, released as a part of Patrol Visualis 1.3, uses the same map to show both performance data actively gathered through polling of network resources as well as reactive availability information. “In the same […]

Computer Associates International Inc. at next weeks LinuxWorld show in New York will launch its latest barrage of Linux tools that run across all of its product brands. The Islandia, N.Y., software behemoth, hoping to make its name synonymous with Linux, will bring its total number of Linux offerings up to 60 with the latest […]

Force10 Networks Inc. next week will give 10 Gigabit-per-second Ethernet a shove down the price curve with a 44 percent reduction in the cost of its line cards. Prices for the emerging high-speed networking technology, in use today mostly in educational, research and government installations, have begun to inch downward among the primary vendors supplying […]

Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday introduced a pair of new content switches that extend the low and high ends of its content switching lineup. At the high end, Cisco added the new GSS 4480 Global Site Selector for customers looking to load balance across multiple data centers. The switch is a response to the increasing […]

LANDesk Software Ltd. Monday launched the latest release of its namesake desktop management suite that incorporates operating system deployment. LANDesk Management Suite, originally developed by Intel but spun out into a separate company last fall, is now capable of performing a complete operating system deployment, taking into account all necessary infrastructure considerations, according to officials […]

Startups looking for venture funding in this economic climate find it tough going. One new startup, however, managed to come away with another $15 million in second-round funding in three months time, bringing its total to $39 million. Vieo Inc., an Austin, Texas, startup focused on the applications management space, yesterday announced its new funding […]

IT service provider Inforonics Inc. hopes to squeeze into a new niche between big custom application outsourcers such as Accenture Ltd. and packaged application service providers such as USInternetworking Inc. with a new predictive pricing model for its Paragon4 custom application management services. The pricing model, which draws on Inforonics experience in developing and managing […]

BMC Software Inc. caught up with its major rivals in enterprise management last week, delivering a pair of new Windows- and Web-based consoles for its Patrol 7. But that parity will be fleeting as IBMs Tivoli unit and Computer Associates International Inc. ready updated products of their own. The native Windows and Web consoles, along […]

Little-known software testing provider Shunra Software Ltd. later this month will introduce a tool for application developers intended to help them understand how their applications will work across real-world WANs before they are deployed. The Shunra/Stratus software, made up of a server and agents that reside on the developers workstation, allows developers to collaborate with […]