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Business service management vendor Netuitive made its Service Analyzer tool more large enterprise-ready in a new release launched Oct. 29. The small, privately held company with big-name customers such as AT&T, which selected Service Analyzer to help manage the performance of its iPhone activation system, added real-time service monitoring, the ability to prioritize alarms according […]

EMC announced Oct. 30 it would acquire Voyence, a network change and configuration management provider, to quicken EMCs march into the IT service management arena. The privately held companys VoyenceControl software automates the management of multivendor network device configuration. It already offers integration with the EMC Smarts root-cause analysis fault manager. “Seventy-eight percent of [IT […]

Systems and security management provider NetIQ on Oct. 25 threw its hat into the IT process automation ring with the launch of a new run book automation platform. The Aegis run book automation platform, which has several patents pending, pits NetIQ against behemoths like BMC Software, through BMCs RealOps acquisition, and Hewlett-Packard, which acquired iConclude […]

Virtualization in its various forms, from desktop to server and application virtualization, dominated the Citrix iForum user conference. And with the closing of the XenSource acquisition on the first day of the conference, Citrix Systems CEO Mark Templeton described the acquisition as the biggest and most important for Citrix to date. “The server virtualization market […]

LAS Vegas—Citrix Systems at its iForum conference here announced that to meet customer demands for secure application acceleration it will work with long-time partner Microsoft to enter the highly competitive branch-in-a-box market. The two vendors are working to integrate the Citrix WANScaler WAN optmization appliance with Microsofts Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Internet Security and […]

To thank Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard for validating the market for high-definition video conference, LifeSize Communications is launching three offerings that make the technology more affordable and accessible. The new LifeSize Express, LifeSize Team MP and LifeSize Conference, launched Oct. 23 at Fall Interop in New York, are aimed at different environments and multiple locations […]

HP on Oct. 22 is ending its long silence on the subject of Business Service Management by launching an integrated portfolio of products based on enhanced OpenView tools and technologies acquired with Mercury Interactive. The integration of tools from Mercury, Peregrine Systems and others, combined with major upgrades to several products, is intended add up […]

Citrix Systems at its iForum conference on Oct. 22 will demonstrate to customers just how broad its definition of application delivery really is when it launches new virtualization technology along with new communications, security and power management features embedded in its flagship Presentation Server line. With the close of its XenSource acquisition, Citrix will launch […]

Rivals Riverbed Technology and Juniper Networks are offering dueling software upgrades to their competing WAN optimization controllers. While Juniper Networks in its WXOS 5.5 release focused primarily on security enhancements, Riverbed in its RIOS (Riverbed Optimization System) Version 4.1 release targeted boosting the performance of large-scale data transfers. Both upgrades were announced Oct. 22. Junipers […]

LANDesk Software is turning to hardware to help its customers more easily manage mobile laptops and remote PCs over the Internet. The new LANDesk Management Gateway Appliance, which will be announced Oct. 24 and delivered with a new release of the LDMS (LANDesk Management Suite), allows administrators to more easily manage laptops and PCs outside […]