Paula Musich

IBM and American Express Co. 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 Amexs Corporate Card customers. Amex this week will begin marketing the tool, which will be hosted by IBM Global Services at its data […]

Traffic shaping veteran Packeteer Inc. on Monday will branch out into compression when it launches its new PacketShaper Xpress. The Cupertino, Calif., bandwidth management company leveraged compression and Web acceleration expertise it gained with its acquisition of Workfire Technologies International Inc. in 2000 to create a universal traffic acceleration offering. PacketShaper Xpress combines Layer 7 […]

Electronic Data Systems Inc. Thursday reported decreases across the board in earnings, net income and revenues for its fourth quarter, but the IT services giant managed to beat First Call consensus on earnings by three cents. Net income for the fourth quarter was $246 million, compared to $427 million in the same year-ago quarter. The […]

BMC Software Inc.s Patrol for both Windows and Unix servers got a face lift recently in a pair of new releases that better exploit the Windows look and feel and emphasize a streamlined workflow. The Houston software provider Tuesday introduced Patrol for Windows Servers 3.0 and Patrol for Unix 9.0, both of which are intended […]

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 […]